Summary: A twist on the de-aging plot. Harry discovers that, sometime prior to Voldemort killing his 'parents', he had been de-aged back to a baby. Who was he before? Bonus points if he and Severus already had a history.
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Summary: All Muggleborn students and halfbloods are required to take a Wizards Studies class to teach them basic Wizarding life skills, such as banking, Wizarding government, voting, how to petition the government, go to court, contact the Aurors, denome a garden, cook food, send public post, floo etiquette, request a portkey, international travel, find reputable stores, etc. Somehow Harry got missed when it came time to take the class, but he can't graduate until he passes the Wizarding Life Skills test.
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Summary: Harry didn't go to Hogwarts when he was 11. He didn't go when he was 12, or 13 either. No one knows where Harry is or what he's been doing. They know he's still alive because some kind of magic has been preformed to prove that he is, but they can't find him.

Then one day someone does stumble across Harry Potter. He hasn't been living with the Dursleys (you decide why). Instead he's been living with another family. A family who has treated him fairly decently.

Questions to think about:
- How is this Harry different from the canon Harry, or the same?
- Who finds Harry and what do they do when they realize it's him?
- Why didn't he grow up with the Dursleys? Where are they or what has happened to them?
- Who informs Harry that he's a famous wizard who is supposed to be in wizard school, and how does he react? Does he want to go?
- When Harry goes to Hogwarts, does he adjust well? What house does he end up in? Does he still become friends with Ron and Hermione? Does he feel out of place or right at home?

Must Haves:
1) Harry must attend Hogwarts. He is either going into 4th year, or 5th year, you decide.
2) Dumbledore assigns someone to help Harry adjust and give him extra tutoring to get him caught up. Who that is is up to you. It could even be a student.
3) Snape must be involved in some way. He can be an enemy, mentor, or whatever. You choose.
4) Harry returns home to the people he's been living with for holidays though you don't have to show this. He loves that family and is unwilling to be separated from them.

All other details up to you. Have fun with it.

No slash, no drabbles. Should be longer than a one-shot.
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Summary: Harry gets to wish for one thing and as wishes go it comes true in the most unexpected ways

Suggestions:
- Harry wishes to have his parents back and wakes up to a world where he grew up with Severus as his father and another Canon character as the other parent
- Harry wishes for a home
- Harry wants to have a new pet
- Harry wishes the war never happened and sees himself as the person he would've become then (Draco Malfoy copy?)
- Harry wishes that every death eater gets the chance to walk away from voldemort and loose the dark mark
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Summary: Remember in Snape's memories, when Dumbledore says "Sometimes I think we sort too soon."? What if Dumbledore had acted on this and decided that the sorting ceremony would be mandatory every year (for all classes)? The plan is to accommodate changes in character, lessen house rivalry and give heads of house the chance to bond with different children and possible aid them in a way a colleague could not.

Suggestions:

you could change your house every year if your personality changes enough and you could (theoretically) visit all houses during your school career.

even though this is now possible - please make it a seldom occurance! People are resorted but only if there was a major change in their character, maybe based on some trauma or if they were sorted into a house of their own wish (like harry) but don't really fit in there

even though house rivalry in general is lessened, another type of discrimination develops: people who stay in the same house for several years tend to feel that they represent their house and are superior to "house hoppers" (house hoppers tend to be seen as mentally unstable by them)

Harry changes his house after going to Gryffindor in his first year (preferably to Slytherin) - you decide the timing for this (year 2-6) and how long the new system is in place for

other characters that seemed to be "ill fit" in their house change house as well (e.g. hermione, neville etc.)

slytherins who change house are generally discriminated against in their new house

new entrys into slytherin house are generally isolated in the beginning and have to "prove" themselves first to their new house mates. They usually try to find another house hopper or associate with their old friends at first.

there are more inter house friendships

Snape struggles with new students from other houses in general and especially if Harry is one of them

through Harry's change of house, Snape has to reevaluate his opinion of him

Harry sees the house system and houses in a different, more balanced way. He realized Gryffindor's faults and is influenced to the better by his new house. He tries to reconcile his old friends and new acquaintances

Bonus:

heads of house can be resorted every year as well

one out of the group of people who have stayed in one house for a long time suddenly changes house and has changed a lot. Harry or Severus take an interest and try to find out what happened to that person (you can use Draco for this but I would prefer a new supporting character. Draco is a bit overused). Make the old house feel betrayed by him and bully him

Snape convinced the hat to put him in Slytherin, not Gryffindor, when he was a first year. he partly regrets that decision because it divided him from lily and was the first step towards becoming a death eater. on the other hand he now sees himself as a Slytherin and wouldn't change it for the world. Have this come up in conversation with Harry and compare it to his own story of convincing the hat.

Snape could decide that new entrys into Slytherin house may be an indicator of trauma (as mentioned above) and have them evaluated by Pomfrey for physical/sexual/emotional abuse.
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