Potions and Snitches :: Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

Summary:

At the age of seventeen, Harry Potter has finally killed Voldemort, finished his education at Hogwarts and begun studying to become an Auror. However, the situation at the Ministry has changed. A new Minister has been elected, one that detests Harry and feels endangered by him, his influence and his fame. He pulls every string he can think of to get Harry out of the Auror program. Finally, he discovers that Harry’s mark at the OWLs from Potions was an E, as well as on his NEWTs, and that it was still recognizably better than how Snape usually marked Harry. Not entirely legally, they put his marks in question, stating that he should have never been accepted to the program in the first place. Despite Harry‘s protests, he is told that he can’t continue his training unless he gains a Potions' Master title as an apprentice under some Potions Master that was authorized by the Ministry. Unfortunately, almost all the Potions' Masters are under the influence of the Ministry and absolutely refuse to accept Harry.

Harry is in the second year of the Auror‘s training. He loves the thought of being an Auror and he also desperately wants to prove himself against the Ministry. Because of that, he decides to take his last chance of becoming an Auror in the UK – to serve a three-years long apprenticeship under Severus Snape. Will Snape accept him, or must Harry pretend to be someone else (and what happens when Snape finds out)? What sort of power holds the Master over his Apprentice?

The story should probably stick to the canon at least to the end of the HBP.