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Summary:

Lily Evans happily married James Potter and had a child with him, called Harry Potter. Severus Snape loved Lily Potter dearly. However, Severus Snape was also a Death Eater and a very selfish man.

James Potter was nearly killed (by Voldemort, Death Eaters? Your choice.) Snape could have easily saved him... but he decided not to. Instead, he let him die - and went to comfort his young beautiful widow.

In a year or two, Severus and Lily legally, but secretly married and together with Harry became a family. Lily later found out what happened with James. She was extremely angry with Severus, but didn't want to endanger his position as a spy - she left him, but they never divorced as it would require too much paperwork. Half year later, Voldemort killed her - and Harry became the Boy who lived at the age of four or five.

Severus, who had grown up to love Harry in his own way, claimed him and Harry grew up with a snarky, sneering and moody but loving father. Hovewer, what would happen when Harry discovers what Severus had done?

Notes: Snape IS on the light side. He was a great bastard and he still isn't a very pleasant man, even though he changed for the better with Lily's and later Harry's influence. He hates the fact that Harry resembles James, but loves Harry nonetheless. Harry loves him back.

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Summary: Harry tries to brew a complicated potion on his own in secret. Unfortunately he messes up, poisoning himself in the process. Severus Snape, Potions Master, is called to fix it.

Poisoning can be from preparation of the ingredients or the finished potion, during the summer or at Hogwarts, ect.
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Summary: Think challenges are easy? Try this one on for size.

In three chapters or LESS, you must create a heart warming and angsty story that:

    Uses ALL of the following words and phrases:
  • "I hate you Harry"
  • "Flying purple Hippogryff"
  • "He knocked her up?"
  • "Ron, that's disgusting"
  • "I think we're going to need a bigger one"
  • "Perfect"
  • "Bat bogeys"
  • "RUN!"
  • "What's your name?"

The following things must also be mentioned or seen in the story: A broom, A ripped up hat, Some kind of wizarding child's piggy bank, A picture with some kind of sentimental value... to somebody

Bonus if there is humor injected in every chapter. Plot? You decide. Characters? Harry and Snape and Ron, and anybody else you see fit.


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Summary: Somehow Harry is cursed with a powerful bad luck curse. It starts to be apparent while at Hogwarts, getting progressively worse until it is clearly a curse and Harry is unable to cope with the effects. Something as simple as walking down the stairs can now be life threatening, and Harry finds himself either injured or in terrible circumstances almost daily.

How can Harry and his teachers deal with a string of bad luck as strong as a curse? Should he have a special protector watching his every move? Should he leave Hogwarts? Is he a risk to his friends? The other students? Teachers? Owls? If it keeps getting worse, how will he survive? This is sure to test Snape's resolve and vow to safeguard Harry Potter. How can they break it?

The Bad luck curse may be a genetic inheritance, or something that Harry was cursed with, or gave himself by accident due to his curiosity. In any case, Snape must be there to help him. This may take place in or out of Hogwarts, any year.

The idea of a Bad luck curse can be used independently of the challenge.
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Summary: Harry and Draco have both been adopted (either formally or in spirit only) by Snape and are living with him. Your choice as to why they're in this situation! Harry falls ill, during which time he realizes Draco and Severus see him as a brother/son instead of the Gryffindor living with them.
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Summary: Minerva McGonagall gets addicted to catnip in her animagus form, and Harry assists Snape in brewing a potion to help her quit. Addiction could have an innocent beginning or be the work of Voldemort, or any beginning of your choice.
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Summary: Malfoy does show up for the midnight duel in Book 1. Instead of merely "shooting sparks" at Harry, he casts dark spells that he learned from his father. Snape finds Harry and somehow sees scars from abuse at home (just because I'm addicted to Dursley angst:)

Other points
-What role does Ron play?
-How is Draco punished-and does Severus do it, or Dumbledore?
-What is done about the Dursley situation?
-What spells did Draco use (are their any strange side effects?)

Be Creative!
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Summary: Snape is a total and complete bastard to Harry (think Snape on his worst day, times 50). Snape relentlessly insults him, gives him impossibly tough detentions, says hurtful things, bullies him day and night. He thinks he's justified in doing so. Harry deals with it, as always, sucking up the hard work and trying not to let the insults get under his skin. But it gets too intense, and Harry gets physically and mentally overwhelmed. The insults hurt Harry increasingly, and deepen his insecurities. Harry becomes a pile of nerves, exhausted, his whole life looks hopeless. He can't take it anymore and breaks. Then, preferably, Snape sees the error of his ways, feels guilty, and tries to make it all better.

Mood: angst, angst, angst, "poor me", and lots of comfort/fluff at the end.
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Summary: It's summer time between 6th and 7th year or Harry's 5th and 6th year and Harry is getting wailed on by his cousin Dudley. After a couple of weeks a VERY angry Snape shows up and hauls Harry off to Hogwarts, where Harry is accused of getting a fourth (or 5th) year Ravenclaw girl pregnant. He is shown the front page of the daily prophet with a 3 inch bold headline reading: "HARRY POTTER GOT ME PREGNANT." Now of course Harry had nothing to do with the pregnancy, and has never had any sexual relations of any kind as of yet. The article also has a picture of a bruised beat up looking Harry, and claims that the girl's dad beat him up when he found out Harry was the father (also not true). How will Harry handle this? How will he convince his professors and the Order that he is not the father? Or will he claim that he is the father just so he can leave the Dursley's? Will he save the girl he's never even met from embarrassment and collaborate her story and take care of her? How will he act towards her when school starts and she's walking around the halls pregnant and everybody is staring at her and Harry?

Snape must somehow be involved in all of this throughout either as Harry's mentor, tormentor, or friend (or in some other way?). It's all up to you!

Bonus: if it's more than 6 chapters and goes until the birth of the Baby (whether or not Harry has anything to do with it). Figure on the baby being born around January.
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Summary: Listen and be inspired by the song Runaway by Love and Theft (you can find a version on Youtube). Now use some idea from the song to write a story about Harry and Draco running away from their lives (separately), and both somehow ending up with Snape as their mentor or guardian.
    This story can be taken one of two directions: Either:

  1. Harry and Draco are underage and still enrolled in Hogwarts, but both are tired of either the abuse they receive at home or (in Draco's case he may decide to run away because he doesn't want to follow his father's destructive path... or abuse). This should happen sometime in the summer and they can either meet on the way to ending up with Snape, or just both end up there somehow.

    OR:

  2. Harry and Draco are both out of Hogwarts and are between 18-24. They need a change in their life (for whatever reason) and end up running off and meeting somewhere and end up settling their differences. Again, somehow they end up with Snape as their mentor, Apprentice Master, or something.
In either option there should be some kind of realization that the other characters are not as bad as previously thought.

Bonus if: it's more than 6 chapters, well written, and the characters stay in character.

Bonus Challenge for option B: One of the guys leaves because he got a girl pregnant and doesn't know if he can deal with it... you choose if it's Harry or Draco, but Snape somehow ends up teaching them to man up and do what's right by the end of the story. The rest is up to you.

    Review of what's required:
  • Must take some idea or theme from the song
  • Must have Harry, Draco, and Snape as the focus of the story
  • Must have some sort of realization and reconciliation between characters
  • Harry and Draco should be running away at about the same time.

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