After Harry blows up Aunt Marge and catches the Knight Bus to Diagonalley, he decides to take charge of his life when he learns he’s being sent back to Four Privet Drive. Harry spends the summer turning life in Diagonalley on its head, trying not to worry about the murderer Sirius Black, and attempting to avoid Severus Snape. In the midst of this he finds himself embroiled in an intense legal battle against Albus Dumbledore to decide his future. For the first time his fate rests solely in his own hands, and depend on the decisions he finds himself being forced to make. Harry wishes he could just be a thirteen year old boy, and begins to wonder if he’ll ever have the childhood he desires the most.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Angry Snape, Bully Snape, Canon Snape, Comforting Snape, Kind Snape, Mean Snape, Secretive Snape, Stern Snape
Tags: Adoption, Azkaban Character, Incognito!Harry, Injured!Harry, Royalty!Harry, Runaway, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Snape is determined to kill Voldemort, but things become complicated when he realizes that Harry, the last Horcrux, is a bit like Lily.

Snape is dark. This story explores his turbid past and the difficulties of redemption.

Takes Place: 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Angry Snape, Bully Snape, Canon Snape, Comforting Snape, Cruel Snape, Depressed Snape, Desperate Snape, Kind Snape, Loving Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry

Dumbledore has requested Snape retrieve something valuable for the Order and stop Voldemort from getting his hands on it. Unfortunately Snape is also required to take Harry as they need a Parselmouth. Along the way, both learn more about each other and Snape's ideas and assumptions are proven incorrect.

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: Angry Snape, Canon Snape, Comforting Snape, Kind Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Secretive Snape
Tags: Injured!Harry, Kidnapped!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape

It's Nott who finally surprises Severus by speaking up, small dark eyes strangely intense.
"It's Potter's owl, sir."
Severus eyes Potter with interest, but the boy's lips are pinched tight, shoulders hitched, and he's staring at the ground without saying a word.
Well, well.

In which Severus' night has just got interesting (...if by interesting you mean completely hijacked by one irritating and distraught prepubescent boy).

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Angry Snape, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

When an accident in potions causes imaginable damage to 3 different boys, perceptions start to change. One in particular of a dark and stern man, as truths start to come to light. How does one heal and move on from something like this? Who is left the task of picking up the pieces?

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Angry Snape, Comforting Snape, Kind Snape, Loving Snape, Mean Snape, Stern Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe, Azkaban Character, Child fic, Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Physical Impairment, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Godfather Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape