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Cooking Lessons by Emmie J Sensei starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 36]
Early mornings for most people are a time for sleeping; a time for dreaming. Early mornings are not a time for teaching your hated potions professor how to make scrambled eggs. Then again, when said potions professor, with his greasy hair and complete ‘freakishness’, practically tortures your evil guardians (for lack of a better term) just by being there, it might actually be worth it.

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Aug 2009 / 11 Aug 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: That's a Scary Thought 11 Aug 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    You know, you'll ponly aleinate your readers by blackmailing them.

Post-War Potions by CastorandPollux starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 33]
This is a response to the "Wheelchair" challenge issued by RonyaThiefheart. "After the Final Battle, Severus (still teaching) is paraplegic and needs a wheelchair and a caretaker."

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Physical Impairment
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 09 Sep 2009 / 18 Aug 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Wheelchair
Title: Chapter 1: Introductions 19 Aug 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    Very nice. I think that you could either leave it as is and have a decent stand-alone vignette or you could carry on a develop a multiple chapter fic from it. One quibble: you spelled "fist" for "first" when referring to the floor the new potions classroom was on. Other than that the grammar and spelling looked good. Good luck and keep writing.

    Dancingkatz

    Author's Response: Thanks for the review! I missed that, sorry. It's all fixed now.

Harry Potter and Lily's Choice by ObsessiveaboutSnape starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 42]
What if Severus had been forced to become a Death Eater by his father? What if he had always been a spy? What if Lily Evans Potter and Severus Tobias Snape had remained friends up to her death? What if Severus had been Lily's choice for Harry's Godfather? What if he took him in? This is the story of The-Boy-Who-Lived that everyone wanted told. The rescue from the Dursleys, the discovery of magic, and the thawing out of the coldest heart to touch the readers of fanfiction worldwide.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Child fic, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Godfather Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Aug 2010 / 30 Aug 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 3: Little Wonder 07 Jan 2010
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    Very nicely done. I didn't find the chapter slow at all. It was a necessary bit of character development. I especially liked the reference to the last time that Severus had to use his "soothing voice". Little bits of information like that tell your readers important things about his character. Harry wasn't odd, or rather no odder than any almost 8 year old whose been locked in a cupboard , starved and abused for 7 years. It would be odder if he were normal.

    Please keep working on this story and know that I, at least, will be looking forward to your next post.

Brothers of Bond by watercrystals starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 173]
On the night of October 31st, when Voldemort showed up to kill Harry, he found that two of his Death Eaters were already there; traitors. That night left two boys orphaned and seeing no other option, Dumbledore placed both boys on the Dursley's doorstep. Draco and Harry grow up bonding as brothers for they're the only other person they've got to rely on. Come their year at Hogwarts, they're both sorted into Gryffindor. But Severus Snape watches them...will he be able to take them in when they need him; his godson and a boy that should have been his son?

Takes Place: 1st Year, 3rd summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 21 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Oct 2010 / 03 Sep 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 19: Their Protector 28 Feb 2010
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    I loved this chapter, especially when Severus decided to make the sofa into a bed and let the two boys sleep with him. I also loved being in his headwhen he realized what he was begining to feel for Harry and Draco. Excellent character development. You should be proud of this chapter.

Just a father by watercrystals starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 270]
It was the start of his second year when Harry couldn't force his realization away any longer. He needed a father, even if it was a bad, uninterested father...he still needed one. So what motivated him to ask Severus Snape?

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Neglect
Chapters: 19 - Completed: No - Updated: 03 Dec 2010 / 05 Sep 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 14: Holding on 20 Jan 2010
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    The ending of this chapter was perfect! I really like this story.

    Author's Response:

    Dancingkatz,

    Thanks, I'm glad to hear that you think so and like the story.

    -Mel :)


Title: Chapter 16: Hogwarts afresh 28 Feb 2010
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    I have no idea who Synthia is but I liked the chapter very much. I especially liked the last paragraph. I look forward to teh next bit when you get it finished.

Title: Chapter 17: Resolution of Continuous Doubts 20 Apr 2010
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    This was a wonderful chapter! I think applying the potion sooner rather than later would be better for both of them. I really liked seeing Harry rediscover his original fascination with Potions, even if he started reading and studying just to "be a good son". You depicted his enthusiasm with the subject quite well and I especially liked it when he told Severus that he could see why he liked potions now.

    It is wonderful to see Severus opening up emotionally and daring to express his affection for Harry. Maybe soon we'll see him actually use those "three little words" directly.

    Bravissimi! Great job!

Title: Chapter 19: Tampering With Ill Intentions 03 Dec 2010
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    I'm chewing my fingernails wanting to know who the perpetrator of this horror is and wondering if Severus can find a way to save Harry.

    Wonderfully written, I've been on the edge of my seat since this part of the story arc began!

Green Eyes and Hedwig by Graciella Bellanotte-Diadoro starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 21]
In response to the Burnt Hedwig to the Rescue challenge by Howldaloom and the Oh, the Fanfics You'll Write! challenge by . . . well, me. In the summer following his third year, the Dursleys force Harry to live as a house-elf, finally destroying all his possessions in a huge bonfire. Hedwig, badly burnt, escapes and gets help . . . but from whom?

Takes Place: 4th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 Sep 2009 / 05 Sep 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Burnt Hedwig to the Rescue, Oh, the Fanfics You'll Write!
Title: Chapter 1: The Burning 06 Sep 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    Very clever and most well done! I look forward to Chapter Two. A wonderful combination of the two challenges. Bravo!

    Author's Response: Combining two or more challenges is double or triple the fun! I'll work on getting this finished pretty soon. Thanks for your review!

Antonomasia by sproutchild starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 368]
What's in a name? The-boy-who-lived, prophesied defeater of the Dark Lord, son of the supremely intelligent Lily Evans and talented James Potter, Golden boy of Gryffindor, part-time punching bag and house elf of the Dursleys and the bane of Severus Snape's teaching career, Harry's used to labels. Who would want Harry when they can see instead whoever they like instead? Having never been entirely sure who he is makes him a little too open to suggestion though and unfortunately for him, Umbridge wants to banish his old list of names and create a new one of her own.
Beneath the names others have branded him with will anyone be able to find Harry?

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 16 - Completed: No - Updated: 09 Sep 2010 / 10 Sep 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 9: Chapter 9 18 Nov 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    I can't imagine that Poppy wouldn't do an actual physical examination, especially after her scan coming up inconclusive. However, what if there's something about what the Umb***h did that casts a spell on whoever is checking Harry over so they won't look for anything?

    The letter to Severus and the interplay between Ron and Hermione was perfectly in character. The whole chapter was very well written and I want ot know what happens next. Bravissimi!

    Author's Response:

    Ooh, that’s an interesting thought isn’t it?  I love all the ideas I’m getting about what that potion is and how it’s effecting Harry and people around him and yours is fascinating ^^  *zips lips* unfortunately we’ll have to wait ‘til Poppy uncovers it... or Sev... or Filch... haha no, don’t worry ^^

    Thanks!  I’ll try to keep them in character as much as possible (and keep you interested in what could happen next ^^) and thanks so much!  I’ve never had a bravissimi before ^^



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