Summary: Severus is in some sort of parental roll to Harry and it is Harry's first birthday with him. Harry is in need of a cake for his birthday party. Severus needs help from someone like Molly Weasley or Pomfrey. It needs to be wacky and fun!
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Summary: Harry's situation at the Dursley's becomes unbearable. Dumbledore gathers a meeting to decide who should be Harry`s guardian. At least one character offers but he/she/they are discarded.

Finally Dumbeldore proposes two Slytherins for the job. One is Snape the other is Sinistra. Neither of them want the job, but neither do they want the other to have it.

It's decided that Harry should have the last word in the matter. At the end of school year the child MUST DECIDE.

The rest is up to you. Any book or no book at all. They can try to achieve their goal (to be the guardian) alone or in alliance with other characters...
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Summary: Something happens (couldn't have guessed that, huh?) and Harry temporarily loses his memory. It can be some sort of potions accident or a strange hex/curse, whatever, but it is determined that his memory will return.

When Harry does start to remember things, however, they are not scenes from the life of Harry Potter, but that of somebody else!

Other:

~The life Harry is remembering can be that of anyone in the magical world (Snape or Cedric Diggory, perhaps?) except James Potter

~As Harry has no memory of his own life, he thinks he is (and behaves as) this person

~Whether or not there is an actual "cure" for Harry's condition and whatever side effects is entirely up to you

~Bonus if the story is serious
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Summary: A portal from another universe opens up, and a still-living version of James, Lily, and Harry Potter pop out. All is well...until the other Harry turns out to be a jerk and James the instigator. Sirius (and Remus?), of course, becomes quite attached to James and our Harry is feeling left out.

What's worse, is Harry's friends don't like the alternate Harry, and are worried that his opinions (Ron is nothing more than a side-kick, Hermione is an annoying know-it-all only useful as a homework cheat-sheet, Ginny is a prize to be won, etc.) reflect the the original Harry's, causing quite a bit of tension as they start avoiding both.

Seeking refuge, Harry retreats to the Grimmauld place library, which already has an occupant- Professor Snape. Snape, who is recovering from a recent illness and at Dumbledores insistence, is staying at Grimmauld place and has been watching from the sidelines.

At first they simply enjoy mutual silence, but then (whether after multiple visits or later in the same one) Harry is especially frustrated and Snape, without his usual venom, discusses the sitation with Harry, who is feeling robbed of Sirius but selfish for needing him when he's doing 'so much better', and worried that everyone thinks of him like he thinks of the alternate Harry (stuck up and selfish), and feeling like a failure for not being more like James, but not wanting to be.

After this, they build a mutual respect relationship, with Snape standing up for Harry after everyone wants to know why he's been absent so much recently, how he's not 'appreciating the once in a lifetime opportunity', etc.

Harry likewise defends the professor when the others accuse him of stealing Harry as revenge against Sirius and James. The alternate family can have a younger sibling or two, or no. The alternate Harry can be the Boy-Who-Lived in his universe or not. Can be set anytime after GOF, including after OOTP where Sirius survives the ministry.
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Summary: After Voldemort kill Lily and James, Sirius went there to find out if ethier of them was still Alive. Snape went to find out if Lily survied.Ignore there riverly they both look after Harry. They keep it quiet but let Harry have friends like the Weasleys. But some of the old Death Eaters find out inculding Lucius and Peter Pettigrew. What then happens? No Slash.
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