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Harry finds himself having to unravel a mystery across time when he is forced to spend the summer with his Potions Master and Snape's estranged family. Who is the boy Harry keeps meeting at unexpected moments and why is it that Snape suddenly starts to develop some slightly more human qualities as the two slowly come to understand one another?

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Disguised!Harry, Time Travel
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 15 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 Sep 2022 / 17 Sep 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None
Severus Snape is cursed with an affliction that has him human by day and a centaur, named Ajax, by night. One night, Ajax rescues a lonely eleven-year-old Harry Potter and a bond forms between them. They meet each night from that point forward. As Ajax, Severus learns more about Harry than he would have ever wanted to learn. But without revealing himself to Harry, how can Severus help this orphaned boy?

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Creature!fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Sep 2022 / 11 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Potions, Snitches and Hooves
Harry suffers from frequent nightmares and Severus is at his wit's end until he rediscovers one of the strongest forms of magic. Set in an AU of "The Unwanted One" where Severus received his memories back sooner and raises Harry.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Alternate Universe, Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Out of Character
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 09 Mar 2018 / 08 Mar 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None
[COMPLETE] After Harry blows up Aunt Marge and catches the Knight Bus to Diagonalley, he decides to take charge of his life when he learns he’s being sent back to Four Privet Drive. Harry spends the summer turning life in Diagonalley on its head, trying not to worry about the murderer Sirius Black, and attempting to avoid Severus Snape. In the midst of this he finds himself embroiled in an intense legal battle against Albus Dumbledore to decide his future. For the first time his fate rests solely in his own hands, and depend on the decisions he finds himself being forced to make. Harry wishes he could just be a thirteen year old boy, and begins to wonder if he’ll ever have the childhood he desires the most. Some of the warnings listed just as a precaution for things mentioned or alluded to.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Azkaban Character, Incognito!Harry, Injured!Harry, Runaway, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > Fic Fest 2018
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Suicide Themes, Violence
Chapters: 25 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 10 Aug 2021 / 17 Aug 2018
Series: Building Doors - Challenges: None
In response to the 'His Dark Materials AU'. "every witch and wizard is born with a Daemon, a physical manifestation of your soul in animal form. Harry is no exception to this, but his Daemon is a bit...odd. of course chaos ensues."

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round One
Rated: K - Warnings: Out of Character
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 01 Oct 2019 / 01 Oct 2019
Series: None - Challenges: The Shape of your Soul
Halloween must’ve had a hit list. ‘Who can we screw with today? Excellent idea, Fate, our old favorite: Harry Potter.’

Not even having a Godfather in Snape could stop the evil from conspiring against him.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Stern
Tags: None
Categories: Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round Two, Parental Snape > Godfather Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Oct 2019 / 28 Oct 2019
Series: Guardian of Hope - Challenges: None
Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving and caring, but nine-year-old Harry Potter knows the Dursleys will do whatever they can to make him miserable. After a terrible day at primary school, he doesn’t expect the evening at Number Four, Privet Drive to be any better, but perhaps it’s not too late for something good to happen.…

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round Three, Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 21 Dec 2019 / 21 Dec 2019
Series: None - Challenges: None
And now the story was repeating itself. With the same Shrieking Shack, the same werewolf, and the same Potter brat. In Severus’ opinion, James and Harry were the one person with the only difference – they belonged to different time lines.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Azkaban Character, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Werewolves
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Jan 2021 / 20 Jan 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
After Dumbledore’s death, Hogwarts has to be evacuated to ensure a proper turnover of the wards. Accordingly, McGonagall announces that everyone must leave for the winter holidays. With Bellatrix still on the loose, Harry has little desire to endanger his friends by going home with them, so he resigns himself to a terrible holiday spent with the Dursleys.

Thankfully for him, Severus has been on the alert ever since he had uncovered bits and pieces of Harry’s childhood. When he discovers where Harry has gone, he immediately sets about putting the situation to rights.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Profanity
Chapters: 12 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 25 May 2020 / 16 Feb 2020
Series: Forgiveness and Redemption - Challenges: None
After the events at the Department of Mysteries in June—and all that came after—Harry finds himself once again stranded at Number Four Privet Drive. With only his own thoughts to keep him company, he takes to writing letters to the only person he thinks can help, if only he were still alive to do so.

As it turns out, though, sometimes help can arrive in even the most unexpected of forms too.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: Snape-meets-Dursleys, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Apr 2020 / 30 Mar 2020
Series: None - Challenges: None

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