Potions and Snitches
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It's Harry Potter's first year teaching DADA at Hogwarts under Headmaster Snape. It's a job that makes him feel good and put together like an adult, until a student comes to tell him something about her home life that takes Harry right back to his own troubled childhood.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Colleague Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Eating Disorder, Emotional Abuse, Profanity, Rape, Self-harm, Sexual Abuse
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Feb 2023 / 22 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
It only took a moment for the world as Harry knew it to crumble. For everything he thought he knew to be cast into doubt. High on the Cliffs of Dover, he'll learn not just about himself, but his bitter old potions professor, and his beautiful rescuer, each scarred by love and loss. Secrets are waiting in the winds. It will take all the hope in the world to bring them to the light.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Depression Recovery, Disguised!Harry, Hospitalization
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Panic attack, Profanity, Romance/Het
Chapters: 28 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 07 Feb 2023 / 03 Aug 2022
Series: Wishing on the Winds - 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)
Professor Snape can't understand why his 6th year class is so imbalanced. He decides it is time to find out why his Slytherins are falling behind.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Jan 2023 / 22 Jan 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
After a long summer of fighting to recover from a vampire bite, Harry has finally been cleared to attend school. Will he be able to keep his ailment hidden along with his true identity, or will it all come crashing down? Sequel to Searching for Wellness.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Creature!fic, New Identity!Harry, Physical Impairment, Slytherin!Harry, Vampire!Harry, Vampires
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Out of Character
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 Jan 2023 / 09 Oct 2021
Series: Aspects of Wellness - Challenges: None
A dark blue night, a golden liquid, a pair of black eyes and a pair of green eyes. What's the worse that can happen when the black notices the green with golden twined with it? Answer - A Lot.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jan 2023 / 01 Jan 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
If nothing else, Harry had always received a gift from Santa. When his first Christmas at Hogwarts lacks a visit from Old Saint Nick, Harry's dour Potions Professor to provide some insight on the matter and inadvertently, himself.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 Dec 2022 / 13 Dec 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
A year after Voldemort’s death, Harry and Snape have reached a brittle reconciliation with one another. Harry wishes Snape would speak more to him about Lily, but Snape is being stubbornly secretive and jealous of his private life. Harry’s own relationship with Ginny is getting shakier. Hermione has initiated a campaign in the press against Obliviating spells which will have unexpected consequences for Neville Longbottom, and the Auror Office is looking for Voldemort’s son, without really believing that he exists.

In the second part of “Spiral” Harry goes to medical school at St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries and lives at Grimmauld Place in London with Ginny, Ron and Hermione. As to Snape, he is a multitasking headmaster who seems to turn up ever so often in Harry’s life.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 23 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 27 Nov 2022 / 28 Aug 2022
Series: Spiral - 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
Harry is found cutting, high as a kite. Usure what to do, his savior takes Harry to Severus Snape, a trusted family friend and mentor.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 07 Nov 2022 / 26 Oct 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None

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