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Severus Snape, Potions Master of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, assumed he was going to have a relaxing summer, but that all changes when an upset Lily visits him in his dream needing his help to save her son.

Reluctantly Severus checks on Harry, discovering that all is not what it seems.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Injured!Harry, Kidnapped!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Rape
Chapters: 15 - Completed: No - Updated: 22 Apr 2024 / 30 Aug 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Book 2 of "Right in Front of Me" series. Voldemort is gaining power & Harry is sure that Draco is not to be trusted. Can Snape protect the dark haired boy he's come to love as a son, while shielding his precious family from the evils closing in on them? (HBP Year 6 - AU-ish w/ OC, but follows canon. Severitus - mentor/adoption - mentions sexual abuse, but no details - NO SLASH!)

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Neglect, Profanity, Rape, Self-harm, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 19 - Completed: No - Updated: 16 Apr 2018 / 22 Nov 2016
Series: Right in Front of Me Trilogy - Challenges: None
After little Harry Potter runs away from his relatives’ home for the sixth time, Albus decides something drastic must happen. Instead of sending a friendly witch from family services like he had done before, he sends Severus Snape in hopes of scaring the boy into staying put. But when a blizzard interferes with plans, Severus learns why Harry keeps running away and a change of plans ensues.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 36 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 May 2024 / 23 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway
Charity has to grapple with her feelings regarding a certain potions master, and Harry just wants to celebrate his Daddy's birthday!

*Now edited and revised!

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Character Bashing, Out of Character, Romance/Het
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 09 Mar 2021 / 09 Mar 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
Snape instructed Harry to study the Art of War in preparation for the fight to come with Voldemort, as well as to take at least five annotations or insights per chapter. Here are all of his notes, including some additions from Snape.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 07 Aug 2023 / 19 Jul 2023
Series: It Takes a Village - Challenges: None
Severus Snape hates Harry Potter. Nothing will ever change that. Nothing. Not even the boy’s sudden intrusion in his life. Or that cheeky smile. Or that all too innocent look. Or the sudden shift in his relationship with the Potter whelp. Not even those green eyes. No, nothing will ever change Severus’s hatred for Harry Potter – no matter how fond of him he was becoming. An eventual Snape adopts Harry story. Beginning in Harry’s first year.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 39 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 Apr 2024 / 10 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None

Set the summer after the Order of the Phoenix. Harry receives a letter which will change his and a certain potions professors life forever. This story features plot twists, betrayal, secrets, memory loss, more memory loss and backstabbing friends. Read to see what happens when Harry finally has the chance for a real family. [Severitus]



Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Loving, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Amnesia, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 18 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 Jan 2022 / 18 Jan 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry is struggling and does not know what to do. Things are getting worse and worse and he is not sure how much more he can take. Will Hogwarts, and a particular potions professor, be his new beginning? Or will it be his end? Warnings: Self injury, suicide themes. Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hospitalization
Categories: Healer Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 18 - Completed: No - Updated: 25 Dec 2018 / 15 Apr 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry is about to turn eight. Will his wish be granted? Pre-Hogwarts

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Stern
Tags: Child fic, Werewolves
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 5 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Jun 2018 / 05 May 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None
The professors no longer can scare Harry with talk of lost points, detentions or Quidditch suspensions. He's been beaten down for far too long, and he finally has reached his limit. Severus mentors, eventual guardian

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Character Bashing, Character Death, Neglect, Out of Character, Profanity, Rape, Romance/Het, Suicide Themes, Violence
Chapters: 7 - Completed: No - Updated: 22 Nov 2018 / 18 Jun 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None

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