Ravenclaw!
Over forty years after the Final Battle, Harry Potter's life isn't nearly as charming as everyone thought it would be. Something went wrong, gravely wrong... Will he ever be able to let it go? Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. In response to the Snape in an Old Peoples' Home Challenge by preposterous purple crocodile.
Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry)
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Healer Snape, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Membership status: Member
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Reviews by ImUpToNoGood
Rated: T
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Warnings: Profanity, Romance/Het
Chapters: 8 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 27 Aug 2009 / 10 May 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Snape In An Old Peoples' Home
Chapters: 8 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 27 Aug 2009 / 10 May 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Snape In An Old Peoples' Home
| Title: Chapter 5: Chapter 5: A Girlfriend's Suffering | 20 May 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- Oh! My! This is fabulous!
I love how the story slowly unfolds, how we are getting to know characters that were briefly mentioned in canon.
Good Job!
Adding to my favorites.
Author's Response:
Thanks for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed it and appreciate my story's flow. I always have to double check everything to make sure I haven't given too much away before it's time. Stay tuned for more!
-P.G.
Harry arrives at Hogwarts without any magic. Or does he? Severus is firmly in Voldemort’s camp. Or is he? Tangled loyalties and broken magics combine to make Harry’s first year more eventful than anyone anticipated. Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. In response to the Unmagical Harry Potter Challenge by Jan_AQ.
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 10 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 May 2009 / 12 May 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Unmagical Harry Potter
Chapters: 10 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 May 2009 / 12 May 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Unmagical Harry Potter
| Title: Chapter 10: Epilogue: Nineteen Years Later | 19 May 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- This is an amazing, completely unique story. The closest I can come for some of the flavor is altered destinies, by dobby elflord, if only for the joy of family.
Your story is filled with gentleness and love and goodwill. Each of the characters rings true, but with a wellspring of love that mitigates each one's more irritating canon elements.
GOOD JOB.
Thank you for writing it.
K
Post OoTP. Alternate Timeline. Harry's had a wretched summer. To top it off, Dumbledore insists he continue studies in Occlumency with the dreaded Severus Snape. Will he and Snape learn to get along?
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Azkaban Character, Runaway, Slytherin!Harry, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Azkaban Character, Runaway, Slytherin!Harry, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Neglect, Profanity
Chapters: 38 - Completed: No - Updated: 16 Aug 2011 / 20 Jun 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 38 - Completed: No - Updated: 16 Aug 2011 / 20 Jun 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 8: Eavesdropping | 18 Jul 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- This is a lovely story. I've gone through three tissues already. Such angst. Your Severus and Harry are so in character!
You have some issues with spelling and grammar... the spell for Legilimency is Legilimens (you've had a couple of different spellings).
One of the last lines: "Severus think he had actually listened to him." (think should be thought)
In other chapters: pijamas should be pyjamas (assuming british spelling)
in: "when they found out he had ran away from him" (had ran should be had run, which is the pluperfect.)
There were a few others that I noticed, but the story itself is so fabulous, that I am well and truly hooked. More!
(adding to favorites)
Author's Response:
Ah yes the angst-I'm afraid there's lots more of that headed this way!
As for the spelling and grammar *blushes* I will amend all those errors as soon as I get a sec. I tend to type like a mad thing and give it a quick (and obviously not particularly thorough) read through. Opps. Cheers for pointing them out...
Lots more of this story to come, next chapter is half written but I am starting a new job and flat seaching at the mo so I've been a bit busy lol :)
Thanks for reviewing.
| Title: Chapter 11: Falling by the wayside | 07 Aug 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- oh, my. I cried all through this, from the burning of the broom onward. Ow. Poor Harry. And Snape is so practical-minded, that it doesn't occur to him that apologizing for his unthinking action might actually be a balm for Harry.
The footstep "dreams" make me nervous.
I really want to read what happens next.
Author's Response:
Thanks so much for your review. I'm glad it seemed sad cos I thought to myself when I was writing it what would be the most hurtful thing Snape might do at this stage in the story... pretty harsh stuff. He will apologise - but not for a while yet, I have that bit planned out! The latest chapter veers away from the 'dreams' & Harry's grief for Sirius but these will be picked up again shortly.
| Title: Chapter 12: With friends like this | 08 Aug 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- wow again. way to ratchet up the tension.
I feel like I've been running, and it isn't that long of a chapter.
Amazing writing.
Author's Response:
He he, I'm glad you liked it, I was a bit worried it would be a bit of a messy chapter with everyone floo'ing in and out all over the place... but it was supposed to be a bit chaotic and hectic at the end to contrast with Snape being so calm earlier...
Thanks so much for reviewing:)
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After a series of tests to discover why Harry's magic has become erratic, a secret is revealed, one hidden for over fifteen years. But not all secrets disappear without consequence, leaving Severus to learn that potions cannot heal everything.
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 45 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 May 2012 / 29 Jul 2009
Series: Alea Iacta Est - Challenges: None
Chapters: 45 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 May 2012 / 29 Jul 2009
Series: Alea Iacta Est - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 4: Strange Occurrences | 04 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- I am intrigued... Reading on...
Two small quibbles:
"Professor Snape is a professional, Harry. He won't let his feelings towards you effect the procedure,"
("Effect" should be "affect".)
Also, this sentence is grammatically confusing:
"Harry just didn't like needles they gave him the creeps." I suspect it is either: "Harry just didn't like needles. They gave him the creeps."
or: Harry didn't just 'not like' needles; they gave him the creeps."
Those were two spots that I stumbled over when reading... Otherwise, the story is drawing me in!
Author's Response:
Thanks. I'm glad to hear the story is drawing you in and welcome to my little corner of P&S.
Effect vs. affect. Ugh. That's like the one I always get confused, and I tend to be a grammar freak so it drives me crazy. I know that one's a verb and one's a noun, but *sighs* if only Word could be a little bit smarter.
It's the second one. Thanks. I read so fast that sometimes little awkward bits like that just don't hit me because by the time my brain processes it, my eyes are taking in the next sentence.
I hope you continue on.
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
Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Aug 2009 / 11 Aug 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Aug 2009 / 11 Aug 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 1: That's a Scary Thought | 14 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- I truly would like to read more of this story. Especially if Snape gets enlightened. Hmmmm, I wonder if that is why Dumbledore sent Snape there in the first place. Crafty! It would be fun to read the realizations: Snape on where Harry is sleeping, and that Harry really does know how to cook, and cook well, and perhaps that an alternate teaching style might be useful. I'd love to see Harry changing teaching styles after several days of Snape being frustrated (grin), so Snape can see and experience the difference.
Catastrophic events culminate in an unexpected kinship between some of Hogwarts’ most tenacious foes, while inciting bitter battles between best friends.
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Character Death, Profanity, Torture
Chapters: 33 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Aug 2013 / 30 Oct 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 33 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Aug 2013 / 30 Oct 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1 | 16 May 2010 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- Good start.. I look forward to reading more.
One note: I think you mean captors instead of captives in "His wand, mercifully ignored in his captives' eagerness ..."
On to the next chapter!
Author's Response: Eeks! I have read, and read, and read, and... well you get the point, but I have read and re-read these chapters, trying to sort out the mistakes and NEVER gave that one a second glance! I thank you so much for catching it. I don't have a beta, but perhaps I should. Anyhoo, thanks for the review!
Everyone makes mistakes, even great men like Dumbledore. But was placing six-year-old Harry Potter with Severus Snape the biggest mistake of them all? Or maybe…it could work out after all. Entrant in the 2009 Prompt Fest. Prompts: Bravery is Overrated and Boggart Under the Bed.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > #9 Prompt Fest 2009
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > #9 Prompt Fest 2009
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 Nov 2009 / 16 Nov 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 Nov 2009 / 16 Nov 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 1: The Biggest Mistake of Them All? | 06 Dec 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- Snicker.
What a perfect child potter. Trying to guess his age here... 4? Anyway, the reactions are right on.
K
Harry, once again, forgets to look before he leaps. Entrant in the 2009 Prompt Fest. Prompts: ‘He crawled through the long, tall grass on his hands and knees.’ and ‘Hang on tight, and don’t let go.'
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Fic Fests > #9 Prompt Fest 2009
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Fic Fests > #9 Prompt Fest 2009
Rated: T
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Warnings: Alcohol Use
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 Nov 2009 / 18 Nov 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 Nov 2009 / 18 Nov 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 1: Sinking Feeling | 06 Dec 2009 |
| Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed) |
- Very nice progression.
At the beginning, I wasn't sure if it was a transfiguration or Animagus story, with mouse!Harry and cat!Snape, what with all the running through tall grass and hiding in small spaces.
But each step of the way was realistic, in character, and delightful.
I loved Ron and Hermione, as well as the rest of the castle inhabitants, watching through windows. And I loved Harry and Snape working together on a forgery.
Good job.
K
Author's Response: Thank you! I'm glad you liked it so much - it was great fun to write, but at some parts I wasn't sure if it was straying into the ridiculous! ;)