Summary: I was reading Malora's story "Never Say Remember" and this challenge came to me :) I loved the brutal quarrels between Harry and Snape in that story, and i like to see more of that.

So the challenge:

Harry and Snape fall together in some strange dimension. There is a replica of Spinner's End and Lily is waiting them in the kitchen. She is 20 years old, the age just before she died, she doesn't remember many of the attack, she remembers Severus as "Sev", her best friend, James as her husband and Harry as her baby.

Both wizards fight violently to gain her trust and love, but Severus knows Lily better. Harry struggles to keep his anger and disappointment away but Lily confusing him with James isn't helping his manners.

Harry sees Snape getting closer to Lily (physically and/or emotionally) and Lily responding positively to Severus. Feeling like an intruder and desperate, Harry starts fighting dirty, allowing Lily to believe that he really is James.

What's Severus going to do? Is he going to help Harry or turn Lily against him? How they're going to survive and get out of that reality?

To Do and To Not Do:

1) This is not a Severus-is-Harry's-real-father challenge. Harry's father is James Potter.

2) Don't forget that initially Snape and Harry hate each other. I expect a little more understanding way much later. Let them fight dirty.

3) Lily loves Severus deeply, but James is her husband and the love of her life. Snape needs to deal with that.

4) Harry needs to deal that Snape is the only key to understand his mother.

5) Harry's age is important: he needs to be closer to his mum's age, I'll say 7th year or out-of-Hogwarts.

I'll love you dearly if you're willing to respond this challenge! Don't hesitate to call my muse-help.
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Summary: Snape didn't die. Turn the clock forward a few decades, and now he is in an old peoples' home. He scares the nurses, and doesn't have any family or friends. Harry visits.
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Summary: AU: Harry does not find out about Snape's role in the war against Voldemort. Snape is alive and still believed to be a traitor. Many Death Eaters got caught and the ministry decides not to spend any money on their accommodation, but to sell them as slaves. On the first anniversary of the demise of Voldemort Harry receives the Order of the Merlin 1st class and a special gift: Severus Snape...

Options: Will Harry be open minded, find out about Snape's real role during the war and fight for Snape's freedom or will he be ignorant, seek vegenance and treat him accordingly (humiliation, corporal punishment,...)? I know about two rather good already existing Fanfictions with the theme Severus Snape being a slave: One is in German, called "Der Sträfling" by Leliha to be found on rickman-snape.de, where Snape serves several OCs and, after lots of suffering, finally gets his freedom and a true love. The other is "A different sort of war" by Sly Severus to be found on Mugglenet: Snape is found by Hermione in the cellar of a college, bought by her and treated fairly until she can free him, Harry owns Bellatrix Lestrange for 12 years and tortures her. In the end every slave is either freed or sent back to Azkaban. The combination Snape and Harry seems to me very appealing, I hope for interesting dialogues...
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Summary: It's after the war, and due to various circumstances it is impossible to prove that Snape was not a loyal Death Eater. To keep him safe he is enrolled at Hogwarts as a student in Harry's year. This can take place during any of the books or be completely AU.
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Summary: After Harry's 3rd/4th year he gets a letter from Dumbledore, telling him that Snape is his father. Harry gets to know Snape and starts to like him. Meanwhile, Sirius is released and wants Harry to live with him. Torn between them, Harry compromises and they all get a big house together. To help keep the peace Remus is thrown into the mix. Set during the summer. Must include lots of conflict and No slash please. The rest is up to you, but the story has to stay in summer, possible the first part of term (Telling Ron, Hermione, Sirius's feeling of being left alone... Maybe Sirius could become the DADA teacher.) Events do not have to be compliant with books.
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