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I'm a lurker and have been ever since I was delighted to discover that FanFiction existed online about 12 years ago. I used to have nearly every Star Trek ff novel ever published, but it wasn't until I stumbled onto "LiveJournal" and found that they had a thriving ff community, writing ff for a couple of my favorite books and shows that FanFiction is alive and well and NOT JUST for us "old fogie" ST: TOS & SW fans anymore!😎
NO, HP is *not* one of those favorites.

As a matter of fact, it wasn't until 2012 that I accidentally read an SPNff story that was actually a crossover with an *unlabeled* and *untagged* HPff! I was already several pages in before they introduced an abused child named "Harry"!

That I'd found a writer who ACKNOWLEDGED the *child abuse* found throughout this "touted" and "ballyhooed" work of unattributed FANFICTION was, to me, a *revelation*! Prior to *that* story, I'd avoided HPff like the plague!

For me, to see the "Harry Potter" label on a story was the "kiss of death"!

I'm a Fantasy & Science Fiction BIBLIOHOLIC and have been since I was about 4-years-old, so when my husband's nephew came to live with us, in 2005, and I saw that he had the first 5 [HP] novels, I was *eager* to read them [picture "grabby hands ;D]! But the story *started* out /Dark/; I began to get a bad feeling when this creepy "Gandalf" knock-off started turning off streetlights! I was already unsettled when the teacher and "Gandalf" stood there debating leaving a 15-month-old *TODDLER* *OUTSIDE* on a doorstep in *November*! I just *knew* that "Gandalf" was going to turn out to be the real (true) villain of the books!

Nothing has changed my mind since.

Further reading of the 5 books saw me finding instance after instance of nearly direct *steals* from many *classic* Fantasy novels and MY childhood favorites; how could people tout books that were filled with unattributed plagiarism?

How could people *applaud* books that used unmitigated, unremedied, and even *IGNORED* child abuse and bullying (of MULTIPLE characters!) as *PLOT DEVICES*?!

Anyhoo, discovering HPff and finding that there are a LOT of writers --and READERS-- who feel as I do and work diligently to "write"(;D) the wrongs of the books are what has made me an HPff fanatical *fan*!

Thank you, HPff writers! Y'all keep me going and bring some sanity, humor, and justice to an insane world!

You make this old "lurker" very happy!

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Nothing But The Truth by JAWorley starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 37]
It wasn't Severus' fault that Harry was allergic to Veritaserum, or that Harry had been sneaking around the dungeons after curfew. How was he to know the boy would react badly? Those were the excuses he gave to the Headmaster when questioned about his (questionably legal) actions, but Dumbledore wasn't buying it. Now Severus is stuck with the annoyingly truthful brat for Christmas. Wonderful. In response to the Faux Pas challenge by Alexannah. Rating for language is because of one sentence with curse words in chapter two. Rating for self harm is harm on accident on Harry's part. Short story, only three chapters.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Profanity, Self-harm, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 07 Dec 2020 / 23 Nov 2020
Series: None - Challenges: Christmas, Faux Pas
Comments: When a child's magic forces him to face the truth of his life and how he's treated will someone be there to finally care? Heartbreaking, but with a HEA.
Remember Not to Forget by DesertPlanet starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 6]
A snowy, January day and a missing winter cloak leads Professor Snape to discover some similarities between his younger life and that of Harry Potter.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Jul 2020 / 24 Jul 2020
Series: None - Challenges: None
Searching for Wellness by DesertPlanet starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 70]
No one on Privet Drive was surprised when the priest came to deliver last rights to the boy, but who was the strange man with the long white beard accompanying him? “Cancer” was what Agnes from Number 2 thought it was. “An eating disorder” was what Mary of Number 3 believed it to be. Whatever the case may be, Harry Potter had been taken to the hospital many times and was seen to only be getting worse.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Creature!fic, Disguised!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Physical Impairment, Slytherin!Harry, Vampire!Harry, Vampires
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Out of Character
Chapters: 23 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Jul 2020 / 19 Jun 2020
Series: Aspects of Wellness - Challenges: None
The Interview by JAWorley starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 30]
Each year questions were sent out to new first years so staff could screen incoming students for any potential problems. Minerva hadn’t suspected anything to be out of the ordinary with this year’s batch of students, but she was certainly surprised when there was. Severus Snape wasn’t expecting a scrawny boy to turn up at his office covered in filth and in desperate need of attention.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 Jul 2020 / 11 Jul 2020
Series: None - Challenges: Snape Was Nice To Harry From The Start
Comments: A young child, abandoned in London at the age of 8-1/2, found a family living under a bridge who took him in and cared for him as his blood relatives failed to do. They can't help him get ready to go to Hogwarts though and that's where Professor Severus Snape comes in and Harry finds a new heart that takes him in. Great story! Original premise!
A Year in the Office of Albus Dumbledore by NicNac starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 24]
Harry's first year at Hogwarts as told by a series of ten meetings in Dumbledore's office over the course of ten months.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 10 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 05 Mar 2019 / 01 May 2016
Series: Honey Bee 'Verse - Challenges: None
Past Featured Story Session Transcripts by lastcrazyhorn starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 286]
What happens when a brain damaged Harry and a transgender Hermione both get sorted into Slytherin? Snape's not sure, but he thinks it's likely to be an interesting term. This story follows various first years through the trials of their first year

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 25 - Completed: No - Updated: 09 Jul 2017 / 31 Oct 2011
Series: None - Challenges: Minor Canon Character, Barrier to learning
Hope Not Bound by JAWorley starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 27]
Severus Snape is irritated and perturbed. Every night the brat-who-lived appears in his dreams. Every night he has questions to blather on about instead of letting Severus get on to his important work. Every night, the boy appears with a different set of injuries. This dream Harry is a mystery, and Severus is determined to find out what is really going on. A one-shot.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 23 Jun 2017 / 23 Jun 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
A New World by Morgaine starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 30]
Hogwarts offers an informational meeting for all the muggle-raised first years. Harry decides to go. The only trouble is that his relatives would never take him.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Runaway, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 09 Apr 2017 / 04 Apr 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Parent informational meeting
The Ghosts in the Park by Eihwaz Ehwaz starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 9]
Mired in guilt at failing to protect the Potter boy, Snape takes a week's leave from Hogwarts and ends up reminiscing at a park where he comes face to face with the ghosts of his past.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Child fic
Categories: Fic Fests > #21 Springfest 2016, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death, Neglect, Out of Character
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Jul 2016 / 11 Jul 2016
Series: None - Challenges: You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost
Different, Not Defective by awesomelyglorious starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 138]
Everyone said Harry was different, but what if the differences were more than just surviving the killing curse? What if Harry had Autism? How would the wizarding world react and adapt to The Boy Who Lived?

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 15 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 May 2016 / 12 Sep 2011
Series: None - Challenges: None

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