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Freaks Aren't Allowed by lastcrazyhorn starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 218]
After nearly freezing to death outside his relative's home, little Harry is rescued by first a spirit and then a snarky git! The adventure isn't over yet though, as Snape soon realizes that his charge's problems aren't limited to just frostbite.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Child fic, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 20 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 19 Sep 2010 / 25 Jun 2010
Series: Freaks - Challenges: Bathtime, Multiple Challenges, Hypothermia
Title: Chapter 8: Friend or Foe? 08 Jul 2010
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    Your ability to show Harry's vulnerability, Severus' protectiveness, and Poppy's professional caring is just wonderful. What a well-written chapter. I look forward to seeing how Harry's relationship with Severus progresses. Thanks for all your work!

    Author's Response: You're welcome.  *said shyly*

Title: Chapter 11: Not All Things 15 Jul 2010
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    Aww. I'm glad Harry could read without having been taught; it's a sign of keen intelligence. I'm more interested in how Albus (as 'Brian') will interact with Ariana. That's a unique situation you've set up here, quite interesting. Good chapter; thanks for all your work.

    Author's Response: O' course, then there was me . . . and I didn't really learn how to read until age 7.  lol 

Title: Chapter 15: Hold This Please 12 Aug 2010
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    Absolutely wonderful! As delightful as the tea and cookies, eh, BISCUITS Harry and his daddy enjoyed after that class. Good work!

Past Featured Story Witches Promise by tambrathegreat starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 28]
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
Title: Chapter 1: Witches Promise 19 Jul 2010
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    This was quite a story. Strangely enough, I found it realistic and believable for a piece set in a fantasy world. Not the usual bouts of foolish wand waving, just the slower, more natural magic of healing through work, good intent, and love. Quite nicely done. Thank you.

    Author's Response:

    Thanks for the review.  I kind of like Severus healing without the aid of magic simply because it was magic that damaged him his whole life. I would think that he needs a little rest after what he went through. 

     T


Death Walk by snapeswidow starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 23]
Snape appears to Harry when he goes to his death.2010 Challenge Fest entry. Response to Death Walk by ObsidianEmbrace.

Takes Place: 9 - Post Epilogue (middle aged Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Misc > Strictly Canon Universe, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Fic Fests > #11 Challenge Fest 2010
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Jul 2010 / 11 Jul 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Death Walk
Title: Chapter 1: Death Walk 19 Jul 2010
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    I liked this story; I generally like it when Severus and Harry finally reach some kind of mutual positive understanding. You did a nice job, especially the line 'It took more bravery than any Gryffindor in the history of Hogwarts to play the role of double agent so well,' as it's so true.

    My one suggestion would be that lines 12 & 13 be combined, as all the dialog before and after those lines are alternating speakers. Although it's Harry saying both those lines, we initially think it's Snape saying "Which brings me back...I didn't want you to die." 'Huh? Oh--it's still HARRY', we think to ourselves. As readers, we stumble, since you've got the separate line AND the separate quotes, which is why we don't realize it's Harry still speaking. Move "Which brings me back..." to the previous line right after "Oh wait, you can't because you're dead," and the story will be perfect. A "10" for you.

    Author's Response:

    im so glad you like my story. and thanks for catching that mistake for me! i didn't even notice it. i fixed it now.


Pen Pals by fairylights starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 40]
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
Title: Chapter 1: Pen Pals 16 Jul 2010
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    I really liked this. I'm going to "favorite" it as soon as I've finished this review. Snape as protective dark angel is one of my favorite images of him. Very nicely done. Thank you.

Regression by Bil starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 16]
It is not only the war that changed things: Severus himself is no longer what he was and that changes everything. 2010 Challenge Fest entry. Response to Student Snape by Foolish Wishmaker.

Takes Place: 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Fic Fests > #11 Challenge Fest 2010, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry
Rated: T - Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Jul 2010 / 14 Jul 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Student Snape
Title: Chapter 1: Regression 15 Jul 2010
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    I enjoyed this story, and wish there were more of it. But how can Draco call him Snape, and apparently not know who he is, teenager or not? I don't understand why he couldn't have been "Robert O'Reilly", and the new name explained in a sentence or two at the beginning; there are other stories here that do it, and it works. You've got Snape's POV showing us Sev's experience as an adult thrust into a body half his mental age. You show very well how much more intimidating Draco and his goons are, when one's physically more their size, rather than larger. Since we can see how threatening the three younger Slytherins are--and they know this is a Snape--why don't they realize it's their old head of house? You told the story well, otherwise.

Past Featured Story The Truth of the Matter by Pandora starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 55]
An unfortunate potions accident leaves Harry free of inhibition and forced to tell the truth, no matter the consequences. Winner for Best Story in the 2010 Challenge Fest. Response to the Another Potions Accident Challenge by Ebbtide.

Takes Place: 3rd summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Runaway
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Profanity
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 09 Nov 2011 / 15 Jul 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Another Potions Accident
Title: Chapter 1: Secrets Buried 15 Jul 2010
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    The end? Surely you've got to be kidding. You don't do an elaborate setup, with Draco and Snape involving Harry and a whole summer in front of them, only to let it drop out of your fingers and fall on the floor, then say "the end!" No, this is a first chapter, and a rather good one at that. Keep going!! Here's a "10", to encourage you!

    Author's Response:

    I'm just floored at the response of this story. I never expected it. Okay, I'll write more. You've convinced me!

     

    Thanks for the review.


Lost Boys by Bil starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 17]
AU. Perhaps it was the whimper that broke through the boy's fear, the evidence that Severus was as human and broken as he.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Torture
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Sep 2010 / 24 Sep 2010
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Lost Boys 07 Dec 2011
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    This was good. You cranked up the angst-meter, and got it going. Well done: I wept for them both. Thanks for a story well done. A new favorite for my list. Thank you.

Not A Freak by lastcrazyhorn starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 81]
Okay, you've convinced me. Sequel to Freaks Aren't Allowed. This is a series of one shots designed to fill in some of the blanks between Harry's first year with Snape and his first year at Hogwarts. Childfic. Fluff.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Violence
Chapters: 10 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 Dec 2011 / 01 Dec 2010
Series: Freaks - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 3: Sick Day (Age 5) 27 Feb 2011
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    What delightful lyrics to 'Hush Little Baby', which I would guess to be PD (in the Public Domain, or beyond copyright, and therefore free). Charming!


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