Summary: One late evening, while returning home from a visit to Muggle London via the Underground, Severus comes across an injured and half asleep Harry Potter. When asked about his choice in lodging, Harry retorts with how he is unable to return home, but needed a place to stay far away from both his tormentors and the Magical World.

Unwilling to leave the boy be, Severus reluctantly offers Harry a place to stay the night (and just the night) so long as the boy promises not to flirt with unnecessary danger so easily. On the way, Harry begins to describe his fascination with trains and how he believes his life is like one: unable to leave preordained tracks, without it ending his own destruction.

Severus tries to tell him that because he is young and because everyone had sacrificed so much for him, not -everything- is set in stone... unlike for some other people.
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Summary: When Harry is inexplicably deaged while working a case undercover, his children are suddenly left without a place to live, as Ginny died a few years ago in a tragic Quidditch accident. After an array of problems with other family options, the kids end up living with their paternal grandfather, Severus Snape, whom they've never met. Severus must learn to live with James, Al, and Lily, as well as explain to them why he and Harry remained estranged, even after learning that they were blood relations. Extra points if Severus ends up taking care of baby Harry too!
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Summary: Severus and Harry are the only ones left after the Battle of Hogwarts, everyone else having been driven insane or are dead. In order to prevent this from happening, they decide to travel to the past and adopt Tom Riddle Jr, to give him the childhood he deserves.

Requirements:

• Harry and Severus must pretend to be father/son. Maybe even develop this before they go back into the past.
• Harry and Severus have to make realistic preparations: i.e. think of a suitable surname, store up money, birth certificates, proof of Mastery, etc.
• The time travel device itself has to be more than just a simple spell, charm, or time turner. Make it interesting!
• Tom has to be young, maybe two or three.
• This fic has to involve WWII. It doesn't necessarily need to have actual battle scenes, but how the Wizarding World deals with the Battle of Britain would be interesting.
• Severus and Harry should take an active part in the world, maybe get jobs?
• Grindelwald should be involved... he IS the "Dark Lord" of this time.

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Summary:

Warning: Very manipulative and not exactly nice Snape challenge: For his own selfish reasons, Severus Snape pretends to be Harry Potter’s father.

Severus Snape, together with one or two similarly thinking Death Eaters, persuaded Voldemort that "Mudbloods" aren’t complete wastes of space. He pointed out that 'Magic is might, and might is magic' and that a very tiny percentage of the most powerful Muggleborns who passed some special tests could be allowed to become Death Esters and "breed." Lily Evans/Potter was chosen to be one of those potential Death Eaters.

The prophecy didn’t change that. But Severus really loved (or desired?) Lily and wished to ensure her security from both sides, in case she refused Voldemort’s offer. He went to Dumbledore etc., as his own man more than anything else – but his sympathies lied with Voldemort. Lily refused, died, Harry Potter survived, and nothing changed.

Several years later, Dumbledore is getting suspicious of Severus and monitors him very closely when in Hogwarts or in the Order of the Phoenix. Voldemort then decides that maybe Snape is expendable. Severus secretly learns this, and immediately starts to make a scheme to save his own life; Running is no option (see Karkaroff). So being a genius Potions master, no slouch in magical rituals, and James’s very distant relative, he then learns about Harry’s "situation" with his relatives – and finds the perfect solution.

To pretend to be Harry Potter’s father.

Bonus points:

1. Severus saves Harry from the Dursleys when he is borderline crazy. Good position to drug him with some potions or mind manipulate him.
2. One of Harry’s friends (Ron?) finds or logically reveals the truth. He is shut up because of his "intolerance."

Not necessarily a very happy story all round.

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Summary: Somehow include the phrase "Use the Force, Luke," in your story. Extra double brownie points if it's Snape saying it to Harry.

Some Ideas:

1. Harry's like "whaat"
2. Snape is like "Potter, you make no sense,"
3. Harry blinks and then Snape goes "Luke I am your father," and then Harry goes "...my name isn't Luke."

OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.
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