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Summary: Instead of going to Dumbledore when Lily is threatened, Snape goes to the Auror department (not to the head of the department, Crouch, someone else he knows and can trust, up to you) to protect the Potters. They also ask him to spy, essentially making him a magical 007, highly classified, and start a magical black ops department (MI7?). When the war is finished, they blackmail him (OR stop him from committing suicide by giving him a purpose to keep another dark lord from rising, OR make it a condition of his staying out of prison - your choice) into staying on, putting him into his own "CSI" like department. In this department he frequently interacts with the Muggle side of the law, assisting them in "weird" (according to Scotland Yard) crimes using his unique set of skills in potioneering, spell creation, dark arts, and spying. As part of his liaison work, he frequently gets pulled into accidental magic cases of muggle-born children that are being abused. Kids whose magic defends themselves in 'interesting' ways. This part of his work brings him into contact with Harry when his accidental magic defends him. Now he hasn't been working with Dumbledore at all, hasn't been sworn to protect Harry, and hasn't been told that Harry has been pampered for years. How does he react? How does he handle the case? I'm envisioning a story primarily from Snape's point of view, maybe in a gritty cop-type story/film noir feel with a dash of spy drama thrown in at the beginning and throughout. Does he continue to spy after the war? If your story goes on long enough, does he go back to spying? How does the liaison position work, is he great at blending into the muggle world as well? Does he spy for the Muggle Government as well? The world is wide open, have fun.
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Summary: Sometime during Harry's childhood before Hogwarts, say between the ages of 5 and 9 or 10 Harry is given a full day's dose of Felix Felicis. Up to you how it was slipped to him but my suggestion would be from one of the people that thanks him when he is out and about with Petunia. Not being told about 'stranger danger' from Petunia, he drinks the potion (or there could be a compulsion on the bottle?). Regardless of how he ends up getting the dose, he ends up having an amazingly lucky 24 hours that in some manner ends with him in Snape's care. Be creative, what lucky and amazing things happen for Harry? Does the school recognize that Harry is being abused? Does something happen to Vernon? Does Dudley get punished? What would the Harry of x age consider lucky? Because a Harry of 5 would consider different things lucky thank a Harry of 9. Could be one shot or short multi chapter. Be sure to think everything through, everything after the potion has to be considered lucky. How does Harry get from point A (taking the potion) to Point B (Snape's care) with only lucky stops on the way. Remember how the potion made Harry feel in the books. This is cross posted on Discord.
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Summary: Our story starts in second year. When Harry and Ron crash the car into the whomping willow Ron doesn't just break his wand but also his wrist (or arm, up to you). The goal is for Harry and Ron to be arguing about Ron going to the hospital wing when Snape finds them instead of speculating about what happened to Snape. Snape then separates them, sending Ron to the Hosipital wing where Madam Pomfrey and McGonagall will meet him. Meanwhile, Snape will take the chance to scold Harry while waiting for McGonagall to finish with Ron.
In the book, Ron is the most outspoken in this scene, he gives Harry support. Now, without Ron, all Harry can think about is that they will send him back to the Dursley's. After the summer he had, he knows he won't survive going back so soon. He starts to have a panic attack (bonus if you can accurately describe how it feels). Snape, in an effort to calm him down and help him breathe has to touch him in some way (up to you). Harry has not had a chance to change into his robes nor has he gained back that much weight from the summer, so a combo of the panic attack, the weight loss, and the clothes make Snape think.
Maybe now that the gates are open Harry keeps having Panic attacks?
Please no slash, reverse roles, or master relationships.
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Summary: It's that time of the year for the ubiquitous holiday movie. Let's do it Hogwarts style this year! Your challenge, to write a Christmas movie-style story that is at least 3 acts long (no maximum) that involves Snape and Harry and a common Christmas movie trope.
Example movie tropes:
- Snape is Scrooged and is visited by 3 ghosts (who are your ghosts?)
- Snape &/or Harry gets stuck in a time loop and have to do everything right to get out.
- Santa is real and grants a wish
- It's a Wonderful Life style - someone wishing they were never born.
- Somehow Christmas is threatened and Snape &/or Harry needs to save it.
- A grinch type plot
- Someone becomes/helps Santa &/or the House Elves are involved
- Someone gets a 'glimpse' of what their life could have been.
- Home Alone type plot
- Someone goes back in time to a key moment at Christmas to change their life.
- Other holiday movies also allowed.
- Etc.
The sky is the limit! It just needs to follow the Christmas movie formula and be at least 3 acts.
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Summary: I love the couple of Harry & Hermione as much as Snape as Harry's mentor/father figure. Let's have a crossover between the pairings. In it, Hermione must help Harry develop his relationship with Snape by either talking over his feelings, &/or actively helping them work together. She may yell (scold) at Snape if you would like. Whatever you choose, both Harry and Snape must acknowledge, if only in thought, that Hermione has been a big help in developing their relationship.
On the other side of things, Snape must help Harry realize how much Hermione means to him and actively encourage him to ask her out/kiss her (whatever). Possibly through a great discussion on how Hermione reminds him of Harry's mother, and he should snap her up before someone else does from under him.
The summer before 4th and into 4th year seems like good timing. That's about when Harry started to recognize the other sex. Also, there is a good opportunity summer before 4th year for Hermione to ponder about the interactions that Snape and Sirius had at the end of 3rd year while she is calm. She can realize that Snape must know a lot more and be much more emotionally involved in Harry's parents then they realized. She could then discuss it with Harry and encourage him to "be a Gryffindor" and follow up that area of inquiry.
As part of the story, you are welcome to have Hermione convince Harry to change one or all of his electives (or add something) to get him away from Ron some of the time so they have more natural one-on-one interactions. A discussion between the two of them where Hermione encourages Harry to seek out Snape wouldn't go well with Ron in the mix. So the discussion will be between them from the beginning, and move them further away from Ron when Ron doesn't believe Harry about the goblet. Also, adding a more challenging class and dropping, say divination, could bring him to Snape's attention as well. Maybe he looks at Hermione's Runes and/or Arithmancy books while at the Burrow and realizes that they aren't as hard as he thought and asks Hermione about what she thinks about him picking up one or both. Would finding out how smart his parents/parents friends (ex: map and Animagus) were make a difference?
Feel free to make the stay at the Burrow longer in the book, if needed.
The relationships of both develop and deepen over the year. Maybe to the point where Snape will not be able to spy any more?? Does Voldemort even get resurrected or does the magic synergy of Hermione and Snape being closer to Harry thwart this years attempt?
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Summary: Harry runs away from home when he is younger when Peter comes to him after he wishes upon a star to be taken to a better place. When Dumbledore finally realizes that Harry is missing from his ward detectors (some time must have passed) he assigns Snape to track him down. Snape tracks a magical signature leading away from the Dursley house and is shocked to realize that he recognizes it. You see, he had been to Neverland before as well. He had once wished to be taken away from his horrible home. The only reason that he came back was that Lily followed and brought him back (A la Wendy). Snape must find his way to Neverland and battle the pirates, the lost boys, the fairies, and any number of other Neverland denizens in order to get to know Harry so that he can convince him to come home. Harry only wants a home where someone will love and take care of him like all the other kids, so Snape must convince him that he can provide that home for him, that he can change to become someone Harry can rely on. Think of the movie "Hook" where Snape is the Robin Williams character - but he has it harder as Harry won't know him at the beginning. He not only needs to get to know Harry and allow Harry to get to know him, but he also has to loosen up to allow Harry to trust that he will make a good guardian and will keep his promises.
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Summary: Snape doesn't get knocked out when he is disarmed in the Shrieking Shack in 3rd year. He sees everything that happens with Pettigrew and believes the story and is therefore less likely to notify the Ministry when they get back to the castle. He also hears Harry agree WAY to quickly to move in with Sirius. How does this affect things moving forward? The selected categories are a suggestion.
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Summary: Santa is a wizard. In some manner, Snape and Harry end up running into him and causing him to lose his life (completely on accident!) during the Christmas of Harry's first year (about the age of Charlie from the movie). When Santa died, a magic card appeared in front of the closest deserving wizard, which happens to be Snape. The card tells him to put on Santa's hat and complete his work for the night. (In this story the hat is magical. No body modification happens - think St. Nicholas of Europe, skinny, distinguished. You could get rid of the greasy hair and black, maybe a more jolly demeanor, etc.?) After Snape and Harry have completed his work for the night with the help of a super magical time turner, he is taken back to Santa's workshop where the elves (an earlier version of house elves, not so subservient and filled with the holiday spirit) explain what his new role will be.
How is Harry with Snape at the time? Perhaps Snape catches him out of bed wandering around under his invisibility cloak while he is staying over at Hogwarts during Christmas. They run into Santa while he is delivering gifts to the castle. Does Quirrel kill Santa?
Snape starts to develop extra powers. He starts to see what children want/need the most. He seems to know what to say to them. His patience with children has started to increase. He is finding it harder and harder to insult anyone. It becomes noticeable. Dumbledore is concerned, what about his spy role? Lucious and Minerva think there is something wrong with him and approach him separately to ask about it.
Meanwhile, Harry is encouraging to Snape in his new role. When he questions the head elf about why he never received gifts before he explains that Santa is more than gifts. His job is to gather all the goodwill in the world throughout the year and renew it during the darkest time. It is imperative that this happen or Chaos will take over.
The gifts are more something for the elfs to do. They spread the magic through the Muggle community, but Wizards need more than that. That is where the magic ritual of spreading goodwill comes in. So wizard kids more often than not, receive magical gifts.
Does Harry get a magic snow globe that he has to use when he goes back to the Dursleys for the summer?
If Snape rejects the role, bad things will happen (please expand, maybe he tries?). Harry is there in the background, offering encouragement, believing in him, seeing past his exterior (the hat must have picked him for a reason! He must just be pretending!). They are linked because Harry went with Snape the first time.
Would Snape go back to teaching in the fall?
This storyline lends itself to a lot of OOC, but it would be really funny if Snape starts acting OOC then keeps telling himself to snap out of it! Maybe he dips behind his Occlumency barriers, but the magic of the hat keeps pushing him out? Not sure, but he knows he's not acting as normal and can't seem to help himself. He eventually gives in, though he should be able to keep the sarcasm, it's just nicer.
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Summary: When Harry is under the sorting hat chanting "not Slytherin," it reads his desire to learn everything about the wizarding world above his bravery and sorts him into Ravenclaw instead of Gryffindor. (Remember that he was into reading all his books after he went shopping.) How does that change things? How does Snape treat him differently? Would he still make friends with Hermione, Ron? Will he still be hostile with Draco without Ron to egg him on? How does this change things with a Harry that is in the quieter and more studious house?
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Summary: Over the years, Harry had come to realize that the best time to get answers out of Aunt Petunia was after a good book club meeting when she was full of Chardonnay, good food and in a contemplative mood. He'd have to time it right, though, as Uncle Vernon and Dudley couldn't be home. This singular mood is how he found out his parents names. How he found out his birthday, and other such important information as when next Aunt Marge would be visiting so he could be scarce. Once he started to go to Hogwarts, these info sessions got much more interesting. Here is how he found out that his father was a bully, that he was JUST like his mother in his actions and that his aunt couldn't stand him because of it. It was also in one of these sessions that he happened to mention Professor Snape. What he found out changed his life and his perceptions of the world as he knew it dramatically.
CHALLENGE: A story in which Harry finds out Snape's background from Petunia during one of these 'info sessions'. He found out that Snape grew up and was friends with his mother, his father was an alcoholic muggle that abused him, Harry's father bullied him at school, and his mother was a witch (along with any other perceptions Aunt Petunia chooses to share). This can happen in the year of your choosing. How does this change Harry and Snape's relationship? Does Harry confront Snape? Maybe yell back at him that he's just like his father after one too many times of being compared to his own?
Bonus points for a really good characterization of a Chardonnay soused and chatty Petunia.
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