Potions and Snitches
Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

Genres: Angst
 


Stories
Harry has definitely had the worst summer known to man, but it isn't over. A strange change of heart and an extra meal from the people who kept him captive is definitely not a good sign.

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, Kidnapped, Kidnapped!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Torture
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Oct 2022 / 20 Oct 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry was snatched and being hold in a cell by the death eaters, Snape is ordered to rescue him by any means.
As they recover, truths and revelations come to the surface. Along with matters of conflicts, family, duties and guilt.
The boy who lived, chained by a prophecy. And the spy, whose life soon to be owned thrice. Despite their grievances, their similarities create an unlikely bond between them.
“Without the sun, the moon, too, shall lose it’s light.” (Story starts at summer after year 4, and will continue till the end of deathly hallows)

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year, 6th summer, 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Kidnapped, Kidnapped!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Out of Character, Panic attack, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Violence
Chapters: 15 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 Oct 2022 / 12 Apr 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Severus has seen many a kind of strangeness in his years of life. However, none seem to even grace the presence of one certain mystery - Harry Potter. The boy leads trouble from the moment he set foot on the stones of Hogwarts, and yet, the troubles seem deeper and much darker than usual.

The more he tries to untangle the mystery of a certain Potter, the more he gets tangles in the mess. Will it be that Severus can know Harry, or will it be that he looses his own identity?

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Animagus!Harry, Depression Recovery, Evil!Albus, Runaway, Slytherin!Harry, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 Sep 2022 / 22 Aug 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
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
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
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
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

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
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
It was strange, to say the least, to see it in a child so young, suffering so much.

A child whom Severus and the majority of the wizarding world had thought to be a spoilt prince with a heart beating contemptibly.

Severus hated being wrong.

***

Harry Potter is sorted into Slytherin, which automatically makes his problems Severus' problems. Like, more so than usual. Severus, being the ridiculously responsible professor that he is, has an important discussion with the boy.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Addicted!Harry, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 27 May 2022 / 27 May 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None

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