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Harry has just returned to Privet Drive after his sixth year. Shaken, scared, angry, and feeling utterly alone. However, the Dursley’s, more particularly Vernon, takes things too far and looses his temper with Harry after he wakes up screaming a week after returning. This one event now has changed the course of a plan that Lily had made nearly fifteen years ago and causes Harry and Severus’s worlds to be turned upside down. Can the two come together as the family Lily had wanted?

Takes Place: 7th summer - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Resorting
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 9 - Completed: No - Updated: 29 Oct 2023 / 09 May 2022
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
Due to a mishap with his medical records, Harry is reluctantly compelled to visit the hospital wing for a physical examination. Intent on avoiding the appointment, he tries to "forget." However, his final professor of the day, who was informed of the situation, is tasked with escorting Harry to the hospital wing, leaving him with no choice but to face his fate.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 Jun 2023 / 18 Jun 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Turns out, the Dursley's weren't too happy with Harry for blowing up Aunt Marge. Harry finds himself on the streets of Muggle London.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Incognito!Harry, Runaway
Categories: Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 29 May 2023 / 29 May 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry gets tired of the abuse he faces with the Dursleys, Dumbledore telling him to tough it out, and now his best mates have gotten together and won't spare him a backwards glance. He tells Voldemort the Prophecy, And offers a new regime.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Azkaban Character, Azkaban!Harry, Evil!Harry, Injured!Snape, New Identity!Harry, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Colleague Snape and Harry
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Out of Character, Physical Abuse, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Profanity, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 16 May 2023 / 15 May 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry Potter and Severus Snape come face to face at a post-war party, where they engage in an unexpected conversation. As they talk, they realize they have more in common than they previously thought. However, things take a twist when Severus probes Harry about taking the position at Hogwarts and consulting a mind healer.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Physical Impairment
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Apr 2023 / 03 Apr 2023
Series: None - Challenges: The Talk
Harry's life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a mysterious letter from his late mother revealing his wizarding heritage. As letters continue to arrive in massive numbers, Harry's already difficult life with his relatives becomes unbearable. Just when Harry thinks he can't take it anymore, a dark stranger appears offering to take him away to a new world, full of magic.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Mar 2023 / 14 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
A year after Voldemort’s death, Harry and Snape have reached a brittle reconciliation with one another. Harry wishes Snape would speak more to him about Lily, but Snape is being stubbornly secretive and jealous of his private life. Harry’s own relationship with Ginny is getting shakier. Hermione has initiated a campaign in the press against Obliviating spells which will have unexpected consequences for Neville Longbottom, and the Auror Office is looking for Voldemort’s son, without really believing that he exists.

In the second part of “Spiral” Harry goes to medical school at St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries and lives at Grimmauld Place in London with Ginny, Ron and Hermione. As to Snape, he is a multitasking headmaster who seems to turn up ever so often in Harry’s life.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 23 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 27 Nov 2022 / 28 Aug 2022
Series: Spiral - Challenges: None

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