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Harry Potter and the Mysterious Metamorphosis by Aeryun starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 84]
Year Seven, SS through HBP compliant (Non Deathly Hallows Compliant) Severitus. Why is Harry's appearance changing? Is he being affected by destroying the Horcruxes in the same manner that Voldemort was while he was creating them? And just why is Snape acting so weird?

Takes Place: 7th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Death, Violence
Chapters: 34 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 10 Feb 2009 / 06 May 2007
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 33: Chapter Thirty Three: Creating Humans out of Legends 08 Feb 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    Oh, what a wonderful chapter! And what a place to leave us! Talk about a cliff hanger. I love it that Herry isn't going to kilkl to get rid of Voldemort and that Percy is going to have another chance (as well as Tom, if all goes well). I'm waiting for the next installment with bated breath.

    Bravi, bravi, bravissimi!

    Dancingkatz

    Author's Response: Thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest just as much!

For The Boy Who Has Everything by Foolish Wishmaker starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 305]
Voldemort is dead, but the world is going to hell anyway. Harry is forced to go into hiding as Snape's son. Little does he know, it isn't just a useful disguise.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Romance/Slash
Chapters: 29 - Completed: No - Updated: 06 Oct 2013 / 21 May 2007
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 7: Chapter 7 23 Oct 2007
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    I know I ought to have reviewed each chapter but I just had to keep clicking "next". An excellent read and I definitely love your take on the Severitus Challenge. I look forward to reading more of your work.

Past Featured Story A Place for Warriors by owlsaway starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 554]
Snape and Harry are locked in the Room of Requirement by Dumbledore. Harry's magic works, and Snape's doesn't. Will they kill each other? In response to the 72-Hour Challenge.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Violence
Chapters: 28 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 May 2011 / 30 Jun 2007
Series: None - Challenges: 72 Hour Challenge
Title: Chapter 20: Chapter 20 07 Jul 2008
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    This chapter was well worth waiting for. I really like the way you are handling Harry and Severus' characters and epecially the development of their relationship. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this when your muse is cooperative.

Title: Chapter 22: Chapter 22 29 Aug 2008
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    This was an excellent chapter. The conversation between Harry and Severus was marvelously well written. Thank you for not having their relationship be all smooth sailing. They have years of mutual animosity to deal with and while they've each made some progress there is still a long way to go. I especially liked Harry verbalising how he feels and what he expects in regards to the way people treat him. When he said "I mean, usually its people I hate who punish me. I expect that. But people I like usually don't. So this is...different." he really hit the nail on the head.

    Thanks for another great chapter and as usual I'm looking forward to the follow-up.

Past Featured Story Word Up by validego starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 196]
Voldemort's forces are growing stronger and more organized. Despite warnings of this by the Order's spy, Harry Potter is captured. When he's rescued, will Snape be able to prove that he is useful as more than just a spy to the Order?

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Violence
Chapters: 23 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Oct 2007 / 19 Jul 2007
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 5: Chapter 5: The Thing About Duels 13 Oct 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    OMG! I absolutely LOVE your Snape! This is Severus the true Spy. I was reminded of James Bond (not the caricature from the films but the real thing from Ian Fleming's books). I am definitely going to send the link for this story to my sister who is a very big Severus fan.

    I just wish I had found this story much, much sooner than I did. Now on to the next chapter! I wish I could give you a rating of 20.

Title: Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Severus Snape 13 Oct 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    Wow! I think everyone is perfectly in character. And I love the background of Severus' actions to rescue those he could and limit Voldemort's and the Death Eaters' damages. I like your idea concerning his actions and how he chose to work with Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix a lot more than the way it happened in canon.

    I also like how Harry is handling himself here. He's being very mature and while he still has issues with Professor Snape (and admits it, hurrah!--thanks for not making him do a complete immediate 180 on the matter; this is so much more believable than 90+% of the HPSS gen fics I read) I think that you've done an excellent job of showing his reconsideration of the man and his finally beginning to really respect the man.

    I just realized that I will probably be up all night reading this fic. It has me so involved that sleep takes a distant second place to seeing what happens next.

    Bravissimi!

    Dancingkatz

Title: Chapter 9: Chapter 9: Rules 13 Oct 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    I appreciated getting to know the inner thoughts of the characters. Honestly, I think it is one of the only ways an author can give the reader enough information and background so that the changes in the characters' relationship with each other makes sense later on. You avoided making it bluntly expository and gave us only what we really need to know about what's going on in Severus and Harry's heads.

    The scene in the kitchen was excellent and I especially liked the little touch of snark in Severus' "boiling water" comment. I also particularly liked the scene with the mirror. So many writers either have Harry getting over Sirius' death and his feelings of grief and guilt impossibly fast or having him simply wallow in it far past the point of functioning. I think you handled it realistically and sympathetically.

    Again, bravissimi for an excellent chapter!

Title: Chapter 10: Chapter 10: Zap 13 Oct 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    The whole wards business was excellent. I especially liked the whole matter of benign and malignant wards. I can most certainly guess one home that has a lot of malignant wards around it (cough--Malfoy Manor--cough).

    It was nice to see Remus and I had to laugh at the image of Molly going head to head with Severus over where Harry was going to be staying. I can just see everyone's faces when the Burrow's wards were brought down so quickly.

    Excellent chapter!

Title: Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Hymn of The Sufferer 13 Oct 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    The poem was the perfect start for this chapter and it definitely is a sort of reverse echo of the way Severus is treated by the world in general. I think it's cool that Severus can read cuneiform and translate ancient Sumerian. The man is definitely a genius. Hmmm. I wonder if Dumbledore knows that Severus has written the defense books.

    As I said in my first review on this story, I really, really like this Severus. He's an incredibly talented, intelligent, and strong man who has an amazing amount of integrity with flaws that are neither overdone or ignored.

    Like Harry I am curious as to what the discussion between Severus, Remus and Dumbledore was about. I suppose I'll find out eventually as events play out.

    I do think Remus was being dense asking Harry if Severus was angry. But perhaps it can be blamed onteh approaching full moon.

    On to the next chapter. Sleep? Who needs sleep?

Title: Chapter 13: Chapter 13: Pent Up Aggressions 13 Oct 2009
Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed)
    I felt so much for Severus in this chapter. And him going and blowing up dueling dummies is exactly what he would do after the funeral to try to release some of the grief and rage at Samuel's death.

    I understand Harry's worry about Severus but I have to say I'm very nervous about what is going to happen now.

    This was a very sensitive and emotive chapter. I also appreciated the comic break of Remus and Moody telling Harry about the prank wards, especially what he (didn't) do to Amanda Blackley.


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