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The year was 1988, and on one quiet Sunday morning in the early days of a blisteringly hot July, the Dursleys departed from Number Four Privet Drive. This, by itself, was of little consequence. They habitually went to church most Sunday mornings. Except... this time they simply didn't return.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Hospitalization
Categories: Big Brother Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Panic attack
Chapters: 4 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Nov 2022 / 28 Oct 2022
Series: Storm Surge - Challenges: None
Harry's first year at Hogwarts is over and now that Severus is his guardian, he'll be going home with the professor for the summer and any previous misunderstandings regarding their relationship are long in the past.

Right?

***

in which Severus and Harry both must confront their own personal demons.

Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Sexual Abuse
Chapters: 5 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jul 2022 / 08 May 2022
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None
Response to a challenge: Out of the darkness by Swamygliders. In his fourth year and after the events of the Triwizard Tournament, Harry stares down from the Astronomy Tower. An unlikely someone stops him from falling, and tells him he matters.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Depression Recovery
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Out of Character, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 May 2022 / 14 May 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
It was strange, to say the least, to see it in a child so young, suffering so much.

A child whom Severus and the majority of the wizarding world had thought to be a spoilt prince with a heart beating contemptibly.

Severus hated being wrong.

***

Harry Potter is sorted into Slytherin, which automatically makes his problems Severus' problems. Like, more so than usual. Severus, being the ridiculously responsible professor that he is, has an important discussion with the boy.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Addicted!Harry, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 27 May 2022 / 27 May 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
“What— What are you doing?” To his credit, he manages to pull the child to a full stop by yanking him back, bringing him in closer to hold his shoulders again and glare at him in the eyes, no matter the way he winces at their familiar colour. “You are aware that you have just undergone a panic attack, are you not?”


There’s something in Potter’s eyes that seems to flash at that, but it’s gone within the moment. Severus files that away for later ruminations.


“I know,” he says matter-of-factly, like he’s just declared that the sky is blue.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Time Travel
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 7 - Completed: No - Updated: 29 Nov 2022 / 27 Jun 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Set at the start of book five. The ever-busy Dumbledore is a little delayed in sending that howler to Petunia, and so when Vernon insists that Harry needs to leave the house as he's clearly a danger to the family, Harry is packed and down the road with no protest, causing the blood wards to break. The Dursleys instantly become a vulnerable target for Death Eaters, and Harry himself is snatched by a Death Eater, but it's Severus Snape and this is coming from a Severitus writer so you've likely already figured out where all of this is going.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Panic attack, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 11 - Completed: No - Updated: 22 Feb 2024 / 31 Jul 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry knew exactly what he was going to do before he did it, but that still didn’t mean that it was a well thought out or intelligent move in any way.

“Thanks, Dad.”

You could hear a pin drop. Harry was holding his breath, Susan went stiff beside him, everyone was staring, and Professor Snape had paused in his steps completely.

***

The news of Harry's adoption spreads, and Harry (with a little nudge from his peers) experiments with names.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Aug 2022 / 24 Aug 2022
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None
Harry needs a break. From himself. From reality. From the huge ordeal of existing and being alone in that existence.

He also has double-potions first thing in the morning.

*Severitus one shot*

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Alternate Universe, Depression Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Eating Disorder, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Profanity, Suicide Themes, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 Nov 2022 / 12 Nov 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Responding to JAWorley's Just Pretending Challenge:
Severus is in big trouble. He doesn't have any kids, but he's supposed to be bringing his son to Christmas to meet his family, who he's been estranged from for twelve or thirteen (or more) years. Harry ends up being that pretend son.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Out of Character, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 11 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Jan 2023 / 10 Dec 2022
Series: None - Challenges: Just Pretending (For Christmas)
When Harry accidentally drinks a brutal potion with roots in dark magic, he has to reluctantly rely on Hogwarts’ prickly Potions Master to fix the outcome.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape Spanks, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Physical Abuse, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 15 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 Jul 2023 / 16 Jan 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None

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