Summary: When Harry is sorted into Slytherin, Snape is happy.
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Harry Potter doesn't want to be a wizard. What if the Durseys treated Harry far much better than in the books - and yet still damaged him a lot?

When Petunia finds the baby at her doorstep, she isn't very happy about it. The first days/weeks aren't very nice for Harry, but soon the situation change - one day, Petunia is very sad about something and the innocent baby approaches her to comfort her (maybe even calling her mum or something nice), something in Petunia snaps - and she finds that she just can't hate him, her only nephew and a sensitive and loving child. After a serious talk with Vernon a decision is made - they will bring Harry up the best they can, but do everything they can so that he won't become a wizard. They are nice to him, and when he responds to this kindness, they even allow him to call them "mum" and "dad", becoming a real family with two sons, Dudley and Harry. The Dursleys spend a lot of time explaining Harry that unnatural things as "magic" are bad; when something strange (magical) happens, they talk with Harry first and punish him later - strictly, but never being cruel, explaining to him about the importance of emotion control. When he is somewhere about seven or eight, Petunia very carefully explains Harry about his parents and the wizards world (and probably a bit about Voldemort too). She tells him that magic killed both his parents and speaks quite highly of Lily and even James - "their biggest fault was that they couldn't say no to the magic; they thought it made things easier and that it was beautiful. I had argued about this with Lily for many times, but she didn't listen. In the end, I was proven right, but would have given everything if she didn't have to die because of this." (or something like that).

Now, Harry truly believes that his relatives are right, and is trying to get rid of his magic. He is looking forward to going to Smeltings with Dudley [who isn't so spoiled as in the books, because he has grown up with his "brother" and wasn't the only child; he doesn't beat up smaller kids, even when sometimes makes fun of them or try to belitle them verbally (we can't have him as a completely different character, after all)]. Harry's second biggest fear is getting the Hogwart's letter, confirming that he is a wizard - and the biggest is disappointing his family with that. Then the letter arrives...

Harry by no means wants to go to Hogwarts, to become either a strange person with no friends, a criminal or a victim of one (the way he was told the magical world works). When the wizards want to show him that magic can be a good thing too, they force him too much and are too enthusiastic to bring him to the school (some Weasleys, Lupin and Order members appear there?). This of course only makes Harry stick with his relatives believes and resent and fear magic even more. But the magical world need the "Boy who lived", a "Savior" (Dumbledore knows Voldemort will return, and what would happen then?). Soon, they are left with the only chance - a former spy and a great strategist, dark and snarky Severus Snape.

Now, it's up to you how far to the past you will go, if you start on the Halloween, a few weeks later at Petunia's turn, at the big "talk" about magic, or a few weeks before the Hogwarts letter. I personally would prefer to see some nice Dursley - Harry family moments to explain his feelings better, but that's up to you.

Bonus points:

1) It would be interesting to see Harry and Dudley act like brothers, they may/may not feel very fond fond the other, but they definitely act like brothers. Can (will) Harry stop Dudley, when he bullies the others (classmates, children from neighborhood) somethimes?

2) Snape might have to go to Muggle world in disguise in order to approach Harry, Harry might even spend some time at Smeltings.

3) What if Harry's suppressing of the magic makes him ill in some way? When he was living calmly with the Dursleys, this issue wasn't so big, but when the wizards (Order? Ministry?) tried to force him to come, his magic wanted to burst many times in order to protect him - but he didn't allowed it to. How will the disease influence Harry's (not) using the magic? How will his family react, if they find that the only way for Harry to recover from something is to use his magic regularly?

4) How will the Dursley-Harry relationship change, if (when) he finally decide to go to Hogwarts? Will Petunia be able to admit aloud, that despite her love for Harry, she had wronged him with her actions - the fear and aversion to magic?

5) Oh, and try not to change the Dursley's characters too much, only make them like Harry and let them try to "help him" get rid of his magic (I thing it's something like alcohol or drugs for them, harmful and ugly, and they want to "protect" their nephew/adopted son from this). I think Vernon will still like Dudley better (after all, he is "big" and "strong" and everything that Vernon Dursley likes), but he won't make big differences between them. (and maybe this can be more of Harry's motivation - make his "dad" to see him as good as Dudley). It might be interesting to play a little bit with Petunia's part relation with Lily (especially before she found out about her being magical and became jealous, though she won't admit that later), and how that affected her relation with Harry.

I would like a lot of Dursleys in that fic, but a lot of Snape later as well.

PS: This is something a bit opposite to the usual "Dursley abuse" story. I quite like them, by the way, but sometimes they just copy each other. Feel free to discover a bit different universe. Good luck :)

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Summary: 6 Months after the last war, Harry takes Teddy to the Dursleys. How do the Dursleys treat Harry now?
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Summary: Imagine a Sevitus where Harry had been raised by Remus. I would love to read how that would go, after all most Sevitus have Harry and Severus overcoming their hatred because of Harry's lack of a father and his craving for one. But what if he did have a father all along?

My Challenge is the following:

A story where Severus is Harry's biological father with the following rules:

1- Remus has to have raised Harry from an early age, preferably still a toddler. He may have gone to stay with the Dursleys and Remus have gotten him soon, he might have gone straight to Remus but the important part is the Dursleys damage can not have been deep.

2- Harry has to call Remus dad (that's a big part of the drama the fact that Severus has to overcome two father's, the memory of James and the presence of Remus)

3- Do whatever you want regarding Sirius, he can be free from the start or in Azkaban. As long as you find a way for Remus and not Sirius to have custody of Harry Sirius can be as much a part of Harry's life as you want.

4- Now, why am I so insistent on Remus being the parent? Because of my little catch; Severus is and has always been in love with Remus. His hatred of Sirius and James has to steam from jealousy of Remus. His bitterness towards Harry too. The other catch is, the feeling is returned. Why haven't they ever acted on those feelings? I am sure you can come up with some good reason, after all, want two more messed up people than Remus and Severus?

5- How Severus comes to be Harry's father? Again your choice. But if you go for the "Lily might have been taken by Death Eaters and given to Severus to who "against his will" had to rape her or else she would be at the mercy of someone else" you have to make him do this as a last resort and he must feel guilty because he MUST be a good guy (snarky but good).

6- When Harry and he find out: whenever you want as long as they had a hate-hate relationship before. You can have that happening during Hogwarts, before Hogwarts even after Hogwarts. (For before you might want to make Remus a teacher so Harry and Severus would have interacted)

7- James MUST have been a good father and loved Harry regardless. The same goes for Remus. I want Severus competing with good father figures. If you want Harry to have been a male pregnancy the same allies to Lily, she must have been a good mother and loved Harry.

8- Harry MUST be protective of his adoptive father (using Severus snide remarks about Remus for Harry hating him is a good idea)

9- The only slash couple that is a must is Remus/Severus. You can do whatever you want with the other characters including Harry. You can follow canon or change canon completely. Personally I like a balance.

10- I DO NOT want Harry changing his first and middle name because he finds out he is Snape's son. I personally think that is like changing Harry's personality and that won't happen just because he found out who his real father is. He is still Harry. If you want you may change the last name. I personally like the idea of hyphenating to honor both fathers. (If you want him to have the last name Lupin you may also)

Good Luck!
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Summary: **DH Spoilers Alert**

At the end of DH, Snape didn't die in the shack and Harry didn't survive his encounter with Voldemort. When Harry willingly gave his own life to destroy the horocrux that resided within himself he called into play very ancient magic. Now, just as Lilly's sacrifice protected Harry, Harry's sacrifice marks every soul in Hogwarts that day. When Voldemort tries to kill Neville for attacking Nagini, the curse once again backfires only this time there are no horocruxes left to sustain him. Snape is found alive and put on trial and executed for being a traitor and that's when things get interesting. Snape has that nifty meeting with Dumbledore instead of Harry and he's given some choices as well. 1) move on to the 'next great adventure' 2) a chance to make things right, a chance to go back to the moment Harry was set down the path that lead to his ultimate destruction. Snape goes back to the moment Dumbledore told the Hogwarts staff that the Boy-Who-Lived was coming to Hogwarts and this time it won't be Hagrid that introduces Harry to the Wizarding World.

Must Haves: Draco and Harry friendship, abusive!Dursleys, Harry learning about Wizarding culture, Snape learns of Harry's Parselmouth ability before going to Hogwarts

Can Haves: Manipulative!Dumbledore, Slytherin!Harry
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