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Time to Choose by RitaRevenant starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 97]
Harry finds himself having to unravel a mystery across time when he is forced to spend the summer with his Potions Master and Snape's estranged family. Who is the boy Harry keeps meeting at unexpected moments and why is it that Snape suddenly starts to develop some slightly more human qualities as the two slowly come to understand one another?

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Disguised!Harry, Time Travel
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 15 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 Sep 2022 / 17 Sep 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None
Learning Friendship by krosi starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 94]
Severus Snape is cursed with an affliction that has him human by day and a centaur, named Ajax, by night. One night, Ajax rescues a lonely eleven-year-old Harry Potter and a bond forms between them. They meet each night from that point forward. As Ajax, Severus learns more about Harry than he would have ever wanted to learn. But without revealing himself to Harry, how can Severus help this orphaned boy?

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Creature!fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Sep 2022 / 11 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Potions, Snitches and Hooves
Back and Forth by WyL starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 8]
Harry Potter is not a happy-go-lucky child, nor did he appreciate the company of other stupid beings, and so when he arrives at Hogwarts with a much more cynical personality than expected, Severus Snape is curious.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Kind
Tags: Ravenclaw!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Bullying, Character Bashing, Neglect, Out of Character, Profanity
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 27 Aug 2022 / 21 Aug 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Love Doesn't Require a Title by MellarkandArt starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 5]
Harry knew exactly what he was going to do before he did it, but that still didn’t mean that it was a well thought out or intelligent move in any way.

“Thanks, Dad.”

You could hear a pin drop. Harry was holding his breath, Susan went stiff beside him, everyone was staring, and Professor Snape had paused in his steps completely.

***

The news of Harry's adoption spreads, and Harry (with a little nudge from his peers) experiments with names.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Aug 2022 / 24 Aug 2022
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None
The Boy In The Shrieking Shack by Scott Berg starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 33]
What will be found in the Shrieking Shack after the final battle, who is the mysterious child and what has happened to Severus Snape? (Starts the morning after the battle)

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Adoption, Child fic, Deaged!Snape
Categories: Reverse Roles > Parental Harry
Rated: K - Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 14 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Jul 2022 / 27 Apr 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
It's Delicate (isn't it?) by MellarkandArt starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 23]
Harry's first year at Hogwarts is over and now that Severus is his guardian, he'll be going home with the professor for the summer and any previous misunderstandings regarding their relationship are long in the past.

Right?

***

in which Severus and Harry both must confront their own personal demons.

Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Sexual Abuse
Chapters: 5 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jul 2022 / 08 May 2022
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None
Broken by TonyStankandPetieBoi starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 4]

When a boy who’s broken and shattered inside, slips off the edge of the astronomy tower. Who will save him?

Or

A story about a sour Potions Master saving a boy’s life. And maybe realising he cares about said boy.



Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Eating Disorder, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jul 2022 / 04 Jul 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
At the Dursley’s by TonyStankandPetieBoi starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 11]
When Ron goes to rescue Harry in second year, Harry never got Dudley’s second bedroom. He got something much worse.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Violence
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 15 Jun 2022 / 12 Jun 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
No one Noticed by Severus Draconis Potter starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 84]
Depressed from the death of his godfather and back to school from the worse summer he ever had, Harry is on the brink of death with no will to live. He just wants to succumb to the darkness knowing his parents are on the otherside, but someone won't let him. Why does he care when he never did before..or did he?

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Adoption, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Profanity, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 12 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Jun 2022 / 26 Feb 2014
Series: None - Challenges: None
So, you stole the saviour of the Wizarding World... by ineffablecrepes starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 5]
In an alternative universe, Harry Potter is raised by Severus Snape and Regulus Black, after being rescued from the Durselys at the age of three. How will the wizarding world react when the Boy-Who-Lives is sorted into Slytherin and the presumed dead Severus Snape and Regulus Black start working at Hogwarts?

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 30 May 2022 / 21 May 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None

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