Potions and Snitches
Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

Ginny
 


Stories

It's year six and Harry struggles with the visions he's inherited from Voldemort. Dumbledore is reaching the end of his time and needs to ensure someone will take care of Harry after the headmaster is gone. An incident in the Forbidden Forest where Snape must care for an injured Harry without using magic sets in motion far reaching changes in their lives and in the magical world.

Alternative Year Six story written originally from 2004-2005 under the username GreenGecko. Canonical (as much as possible) through OotP.

This is the 5th edition.



Takes Place: 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Animagus!Harry, Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Death, Panic attack, Profanity, Rape, Romance/Het, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 56 - Completed: No - Updated: 28 Mar 2024 / 25 Oct 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None

While the wizarding world struggles with the return of Voldemort, Harry struggles with the death of Sirius and his own out of control magic. His summer before 6th year is unlike any other as he trains alongside the Order, grows close to Severus Snape, of all people, and learns of an unfathomable fate assigned to one Draco Malfoy, a fate he is determined to stop. As the world falls apart, it seems Harry's life may finally come together.



Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Animagus!Harry, Depression Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 14 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Mar 2024 / 11 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
After the Battle, the only thing that Harry wants to do is rest, but he notices that there is something that he needs to do first: bring Snape's body back to Hogwarts. Ron and Hermione will be there to help him, while they deal with the effects of the war and learn to find hope where there seemed to be none. Once they find out that certain Potions Master is not as dead as they thought he was, things will start to change. (Snape!Lives)

Takes Place: 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean
Tags: Depression Recovery, Injured!Snape
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Misc > Strictly Canon Universe, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Panic attack
Chapters: 26 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 Mar 2024 / 13 Oct 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
“The Ministry takes a vested interest in ensuring our young witches and wizards are as safe as we can make them and you, dear boy, are very important to Minister Fudge.” Professor Umbridge said, simpering in a self-satisfied way as she said Fudge’s name. “So I must ask you where you’ve been this last August?”

Harry coughed into his tea and nearly spilled it over himself.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Deaged!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect
Chapters: 22 - Completed: No - Updated: 01 Mar 2024 / 19 Feb 2021
Series: Namesake Necklace - Challenges: None

Harry Potter won the war and was hoping to finally get some rest from the busy world, but some unknown dark forces are stepping onto the chessboard, challenging him to play a deadly 'hide-and-seek' game. Who would win and would it be worth it?



Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Alternate Universe, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Colleague Snape and Harry, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Bashing, Character Death, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 28 Jan 2024 / 03 Oct 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Coauthored by Esyrnrose and Sleeper102 - both of whom can be found on AO3.

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde

What if Harry forgives Snape for all the hurt? How would Snape react to this? Snape has, after all, spent so much of his time wallowing in bitterness. Being forgiven is not something he expected. But what if Harry enjoys the reactions forgiving his enemies brings? What if he starts a trend?

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Angry, Snape is Cranky
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death, Out of Character
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Jan 2024 / 28 Jan 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Taking place directly after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry is trying to deal with his trauma from the course of the events of the war and struggles to confront it, along with trying to manage his grief. Snape survived but disappeared in shame and remorse after the battle. Harry finds him, and they both discover that they have more in common now more than ever - Both are struggling with their sense of self and purpose. But stray Death Eaters from the battle are re-grouping for a final stand to take out the great Harry Potter, and their traitor, and Harry and Snape must put aside their differences to end the fight once and for all, whilst dealing with Snapes' illness along the way. Explores darker themes of grief, self-blame, PTSD, depression, and suicidal ideation.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Depression Recovery, Injured!Snape
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Character Death, Eating Disorder, Panic attack, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 65 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 02 Sep 2023 / 01 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
After finding out that he isn't the son of James and Lily Potter, but rather the son of Marvolo Riddle and Severus Prince, Harry decides to backstab his "friends" and rejoin the shadows.

Takes Place: 1st Year, 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Alternate Universe, Creature!fic, Evil!Albus, Good!Voldemort, New Identity!Harry, Pregnancy, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Character Bashing, Out of Character, Romance/Slash
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 Aug 2023 / 26 Jul 2023
Series: The Dragon Legacy - Challenges: None
It's Harry Potter's first year teaching DADA at Hogwarts under Headmaster Snape. It's a job that makes him feel good and put together like an adult, until a student comes to tell him something about her home life that takes Harry right back to his own troubled childhood.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Colleague Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Eating Disorder, Emotional Abuse, Profanity, Rape, Self-harm, Sexual Abuse
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Feb 2023 / 22 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
“What— What are you doing?” To his credit, he manages to pull the child to a full stop by yanking him back, bringing him in closer to hold his shoulders again and glare at him in the eyes, no matter the way he winces at their familiar colour. “You are aware that you have just undergone a panic attack, are you not?”


There’s something in Potter’s eyes that seems to flash at that, but it’s gone within the moment. Severus files that away for later ruminations.


“I know,” he says matter-of-factly, like he’s just declared that the sky is blue.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Time Travel
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 7 - Completed: No - Updated: 29 Nov 2022 / 27 Jun 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None

Disclaimer Charm: Harry Potter and all related works including movie stills belong to J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, Warner Bros, and Bloomsbury. Used without permission. No copyright infringement is intended. No money is being made off of this site. All fanfiction and fanart are the property of the individual writers and artists represented on this site and do not represent the views and opinions of the Webmistress.

Powered by eFiction 3.5