Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving and caring, but nine-year-old Harry Potter knows the Dursleys will do whatever they can to make him miserable. After a terrible day at primary school, he doesn’t expect the evening at Number Four, Privet Drive to be any better, but perhaps it’s not too late for something good to happen.…

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round Three, Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

Harry threw a snowball and it hit Snape in the back of the head, which started a chain of events no one thought possible. Entry for round 3 of the first ever Tri-Writing Tournament on P&S. Prompts used: snowball fights and Muggle board games. If you like this story, don’t forget to vote for it! If you don’t like it, vote for someone else's story, just be sure to vote! One-shot.

Takes Place: 5th Year, 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Mean, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Elves, Incognito!Harry, Injured!Harry, Kidnapped!Harry, Runaway
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round Three

One foggy Halloween day, the Dursley family visit a circus. Harry, left to his own devices, goes to a 'Spooky Tent' where, among other exhibits, he sees a cursed photograph. Is it fake? Or is the black-robed man in the photo really a living person, forever trapped in a photo?

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Desperate, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round Two

“Yeah, I get it,” Harry said raggedly, looking away from Snape’s fierce gaze, “I just… it’s not safe for you to do that. I could hurt you when I’m like this – I have hurt you before.”

Snape jerked his head in a dismissive gesture, “Hardly more than a few bruises, Potter. I can’t expect you to recognize me when you are in this sort of state, you don’t even recognize yourself. Occlumancy is the only solution to drawing you out of your suffering. I will not argue with you about it again.”

“You could die,” Harry protested quietly, looking up at the man and feeling the edges of the wooden chair press into his thin shoulders and back, “I’m not a child anymore, Snape, I know that this could kill you.”

“Then it kills me,” Snape responded flatly.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round Two

Every year a professor is tasked with riding the Hogwarts Express from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, in order to keep an eye on the students, and this year it is Severus Snape's turn.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round One