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Final Note 6 - June 2018:

Although it has already been a long time since I have posted or updated anything, it is time to make it official.

I will no longer be writing fanfiction.

I haven't come to this decision because I have run out of ideas or inspiration for my current works - to the contrary, I have put a lot of thought and planning into each of them. Even now, the moments and scenes I had planned live happily in my head. The issue becomes the fact that I have limited free time, so I must choose how to spend it. This is why there have so often been extremely long breaks between updates. In turn, this becomes unfair to readers, as I know that they often have limited free time as well and it is very easy to forget the plot of a story that wasn't born within your own head (and sometimes even then!).

Now, I know many of you would continue to wait for updates. We lovers of fanfiction are tenacious that way. However, since my free time is limited, I have decided that my focus needs to be on my original works.

In that spirit, though a part of me is saddened, I hereby abandon all my current works-in-progress. I will not be updating them again. However, I also open my stories up for adoption, should anyone be interested in continuing them in my stead. (Though, to be clear, I don't honestly think anyone would, but) I ask only that I be credited and that no large portions of my work, incomplete or no, be copied by another (so please link/direct readers back to my work if you continue it).

I've had such a great time in this fandom. Thanks to all who've helped keep the magic alive!

Warm regards,

Dream Painter

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Severus Snape is a spy by nature and by training. As such it infuriates him when he realizes that he knows virtually nothing about the real Harry…other than the fact that Harry keeps a journal. Using his own invisibility cloak, Severus sneaks into the Gryffindor tower while the students are at the leaving feast and exchanges the journal's specially matched ever-sharp quill with a quill of his own that has been charmed to a parchment in Severus' possession so that everything Harry writes is copied to the parchment. What does Harry write, and what happens when Severus realizes that they are kindred spirits. 2010 Challenge Fest entry. Response to Pen Pals by dianehc.

Takes Place: 4th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Fic Fests > #11 Challenge Fest 2010, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 Jul 2010 / 13 Jul 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Pen Pals
Comments: ^^
Severus thinks it was bad enough being seventeen the first time around. Having to live through it a second time is surely a severe penance he doesn't deserve. 2010 Challenge Fest entry. Response to the Student Snape Challenge by Foolish Wishmaker.

Takes Place: 7th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Jul 2010 / 08 Jul 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Student Snape
Comments: ^^
Severus contemplates his life after Voldemort and settles into an anonymous retirement away from the wizarding world until fate strikes with an advertisement from a very recognisable former thorn in his side. Winner for Best Challenge Answer in the 2010 Challenge Fest. Response to the Potions Tutor Needed Challenge by Jan_AQ.

Takes Place: 9 - Post Epilogue (middle aged Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry, Fic Fests > #11 Challenge Fest 2010
Rated: T - Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Jul 2010 / 06 Jul 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Potions Tutor Needed
Comments: ^^
Harry wants an expensive broom and Severus tells him to earn some of the money for it. Little does he know his son's scheme will involve the selling of a certain racy photo. AU! Never Again series! Some sexual innuendos!

Takes Place: 3rd summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Jun 2010 / 28 Jun 2010
Series: Never Again! - Challenges: None
Comments: ^^
Severus Snape survived the battle of Hogwarts and struggled to rebuild the Wizarding world. Now, duty fulfilled, Severus' life is, at last, his own. To end.

However, Harry Potter has a life-debt to repay.

Takes Place: 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Profanity, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Jun 2010 / 06 Jun 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Suicidal Snape
Comments: ^^
Harry runs into Snape while trying to find the definition of home, and finds himself drawn into Snape's summer Order task by the headmaster, looking for a location outside of London. Along the way, he and Snape learn a few new definitions themselves.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Deaging, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Physical Punishment Spanking, Profanity
Chapters: 14 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 May 2010 / 08 Apr 2010
Series: Redefining Life - Challenges: None
Comments: ^^
What REALLY happened in the bathroom during that second round of Legilimency? When viewing Snape's memories in the Pensieve, Harry finds a surprising answer. One-shot.

Takes Place: 7th summer, 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > Strictly Canon Universe
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 May 2010 / 22 May 2010
Series: None - Challenges: None
Comments: ^^
On Christmas Eve, an unwanted child is left in a manger and found by a young Potions Master, changing both their lives forever. AU, implied child abuse, neglect, possible CP, Sev raises Harry.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Baby fic, Child fic, Runaway, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Physical Punishment Spanking, Neglect, Romance/Het
Chapters: 24 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Feb 2010 / 07 Dec 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Comments: ^^
Blood magic was supposed to keep Harry safe, but his relatives are expendable. Blood magic was supposed to keep Harry looking like his adoptive father, but it's wearing off. Blood is a bond, but so is the memory of hate -- or love.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Drug use, Neglect, Profanity, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 84 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Jan 2010 / 14 Dec 2009
Series: Blood Magic Universe - Challenges: None
Comments: ^^
Sequel to "Harry's First Detention" - read that first, please!

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 64 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 21 Nov 2009 / 24 Sep 2008
Series: Harry's First Detention - Challenges: None
Comments: ^^

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