Potions and Snitches :: Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

Summary: My challenge is simple, or maybe not considering the lack of stories with these characteristics. My challenge is to write a Severitus, Sevitus or Snape mentor/guardian story WITHOUT disparaging James and Sirius to do so and without Draco being a poor misunderstood abused child who needs adoption too. (Sorry, I want Harry to be the center of the story). Where Harry isn’t turned against James, who died trying to save him. Where James is a good father and husband. Where Severus’ actions towards Harry and society (he becoming a Death Eater) are not excused by James and Sirius being horrible bullies (from canon we hear that Severus gave as good as he got and on DH we see that Severus was the first to insult not James and Sirius). Where Sirius isn’t portrayed as a reckless idiot who doesn’t give a damn for Harry (the man lived on rats for Harry!!! He told Harry to be careful on GoF. He obviously cares for him and can be responsible.) Harry isn’t the one who has to apologize to Snape. Snape is the adult who bullied a child for being a Potter not the other way around. I want to see a story where Severus becomes a better man through his relationship with Harry by admitting his faults and responsibility for his actions and atoning for them and where after some growth (not right at the beginning because then he’s be OOC), he can admit that James and Sirius actually grew up and were good people. I also don’t want to see Draco having a worse life than Harry. There is nothing in canon to support that. Quite the opposite, Draco seemed to be a pampered little boy with very loving parents. If you want to have Draco becoming better and befriending Harry that is fine by me. But Harry is the one with a crappy life who gets a parent, not Draco. I’ve always wanted to read a story like that. There are so many Severitus, Sevitus and Snape mentor/guardian with good proposals, with the promise to be so interesting but 99.9 percent of them fall on the same cliché: making Severus look good by making James and Sirius look bad and making Harry look like a whiner for complaining about his life at the Dursleys and saying he is the one at fault with Snape not the other way around. I’ve braved through some of them, but I mostly lose interest because of this. I want a Severitus, Sevitus or Snape mentor/guardian that won’t make me want to skim over most of the story. The main plot, how they become a family, how Severus might have been Harry’s biological father without them knowing. That is up to you, as long as you don’t make it sound as if James forced Lily into marriage and is abusive. They may even not be really married, the marriage may be a cover up. But bottom line is James and Sirius have to be GOOD people. If you have Sirius alive and them having to work together for their relationship for Harry, that’s extra points. That gives so much room for the imagination. Sirius has to be good but he doesn’t have to be perfect. He can be jealous. Imagine how much conflict and angst you can get out of the insecurities of both Severus and Sirius until they can finally work together for Harry (if you choose this that has to happen). Just remember not to make Sirius look childish. It’s easy to fall into that, from what I’ve seen. I hope someone can come up with a great story with those characteristics. I’m sure they can, Severus Snape is such a rich character and there are so many possibilities. Have fun playing with them people! PadyandMoony