Ron finds it very strange that Harry doesn’t find an abusive teacher to be strange at all. And Hermione and he have a bit of a battle over bravery.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

With his dark appearance, piercing, cold eyes, and snarky character, he had become the local bogeyman parents ordered their children to stay away from. That’s why Severus was astonished to catch a sound of someone singing under his windows this Christmas night, breaking his pleasant solitude.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

When Harry and Ron crash Mr. Weasley's flying Ford Anglia into the Whomping Willow, Ron broke more than just his wand. As he and Harry argue whether Ron should go to the hospital wing, a certain potion's professor makes the decision for them. Taking the opportunity to scold Harry before Minerva can simply slap his wrist in response to his misdeeds, Severus doesn't expect to cause the child to have a flat-out panic attack... or to notice just how thin he has gotten over the summer.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape

“I only want to talk.”

“You’re a middle-aged man who just wants to talk,” he makes air quotes with his fingers to emphasize his words, “to a kid. That’s not weird or creepy at all.”

Severus blows out a heavy breath. “Fine. What if I buy you breakfast somewhere? You seem like you could use a meal.”

“Are you trying to bribe me?”

“Call it a deal. You eat, I speak, you listen. Perhaps you’ll even speak as well and I will listen. Sound fair?”

Harry hesitates. “Sounds like a trap to me, but… whatever.”

OR

In which a homeless Harry Potter reads his Hogwarts acceptance letter while sitting in a sticky booth at a McDonald’s in London.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

It is the week after Christmas, 1991, but for Harry Potter that is no longer true. Instead, he finds himself stepping off the Hogwarts Express at Kings Cross Station at the beginning of the Christmas hols. His parents greet him with hugs and Harry is drawn into a loving Christmas holiday at Godric's Hollow.

They have been dead for years but now they are alive-- and it's the best thing that has ever happened to Harry.

It is the week after Christmas, 1991, and Harry Potter gazes into the Mirror of Erised, unmoving. He will die, soon enough-- unless something is done-- for the Mirror has him in its power.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape