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Harry thought having detention with Umbridge over his winter holidays were bad enough, but now his hand is infected, the other students and staff are getting far too deep into the Christmas spirit, and he really just wants to suffer alone.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Fic Fests > Winter fest 2021
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Jan 2022 / 06 Jan 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
"Twenty some odd children and yet you’re the only one who comes back into the castle with frostbite.”

Harry sighed. So they were back on that.

“Look on the bright side. At least I came back at all.”

Professor Snape scowled. “You are not nearly as humorous as you believe yourself to be.”

OR

It's the winter holidays, and Harry just wants to play with his new friends in the snow. If only Professor Snape didn't have to be such a fuddy-duddy about it.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Fic Fests > Winter fest 2021, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Jan 2022 / 14 Jan 2022
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None
Severus has applied to adopt Harry Potter, Voldemort has returned and there is a horcrux in Harry's scar. Will long-buried secrets break their new family apart?

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: None
Chapters: 8 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 Oct 2023 / 16 Jan 2022
Series: Coming Home - Challenges: None
After Hogwarts closes due to the petrifications on students and an illness sweeping through Hogwarts, the students are sent home in groups and Professor Snape is entrusted by Albus to take Harry home personally. On Christmas Eve, Snape is surprised to see Potter singing Christmas Carols underneath his window in Spinner's End and brings the child inside with the intention of questioning the child and then taking him home, not realizing he was left in Cokeworth by his horrid relatives. With a letter from the head of the Prince family demanding he come to the Christmas celebrations with his child, Severus decides to pass Harry off as his son in favor of not turning the child over to social services or the Ministry due to his lack of a home. Harry, with no place to go and not wanting to return to the Dursleys agrees to the crazy plan. Can this Christmas be a new beginning for both a man regretting his life choices and child who desires to belong to someone? And how will Harry fare among a pureblood family and in a new school out of his comfort zone? Can the Christmas season make miracles themselves happen?

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption, Child fic, Creature!fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Fic Fests > Winter fest 2021
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 31 Jan 2022 / 31 Jan 2022
Series: None - Challenges: Another School, Just Pretending (For Christmas), Christmas Carols
When Harry is found guilty at the Ministry trial following the dementor incident, drastic measures must be taken to ensure his continued safety and freedom.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Disguised!Harry, Disguised!Snape
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 35 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 Sep 2023 / 23 May 2023
Series: It Takes a Village - Challenges: None
Turns out, the Dursley's weren't too happy with Harry for blowing up Aunt Marge. Harry finds himself on the streets of Muggle London.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Incognito!Harry, Runaway
Categories: Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 29 May 2023 / 29 May 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Denied the safety of Hogwarts for the summer, Harry Potter, the boy who lived, rejects a return to his loveless Muggle life. He embarks on a daring journey of survival amidst the wilderness. His absence is noticed though and Harry finds a dark shadow following him.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: Runaway
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 2 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 27 May 2023 / 19 May 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
What will happen when Professor Snape finds out some startling truths about the boy who lived, can the truth change his cold heart and can he truly heal him when arrives at Hogwarts in a much worse state then anyone could have imagined or is it to little to late?

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 19 Feb 2022 / 18 Feb 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Wizarding Britain at large is keen to celebrate both the death of Lord Voldemort and the resurrection of Albus Dumbledore.

In a small cottage by the sea, four wizards contemplate a situation none of them were prepared for: against all odds, they all survived the war. But it wasn’t without a cost.

Faced with an unwritten future and endless possibilities, they find comfort in familiarity as they weigh up their options and try to decide what to do next.

Takes Place: 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 10 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 Apr 2022 / 03 Mar 2022
Series: Familia Ante Omnia - Challenges: None
Uncle Vernon’s acting weird, and Snape has designs on making Harry the most obedient student Hogwarts has ever seen. Harry just wants a quiet summer to himself and to earn the money he needs for his school supplies, but he could only hope for something so simple. Entry into the Bingo Card Fic Fest.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hospitalization, Injured!Snape, Runaway, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Werewolf!Harry, Werewolves
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Master Snape > Apprentice Harry, Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Violence
Chapters: 26 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Apr 2024 / 05 Nov 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None

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