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Past Featured Story What's Left Behind by JAWorley starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 18]
Harry gets kidnapped, but who is this mysterious man who has taken him? It's going to be an awful summer. Summer Fic Fest 2015 entry. In response to Jan_AQ's challenge: Kidnapped By Tobias. A one shot.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Injured!Harry, Kidnapped, Kidnapped!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Fic Fests > #18 Summer 2015
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Sep 2015 / 04 Sep 2015
Series: None - Challenges: Kidnapped by Tobias
Title: Chapter 1: The Memories We Bare 21 Sep 2015
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    Interesting scenario. It seems a little too tidy a tale, but then you were responding to a challenge (and that with a time limit). Pretty good job; thanks for writing it.

    Author's Response: Thanks for your review.  I would love to have suggestions on how to make it less 'tidy'.  I always appreciate feedback as I am always looking to improve.

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
Title: Chapter 1: In A Dream Strangely 28 May 2019
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    This is a new favorite. I love stories with this kind of Snape and Harry relationship. Well done. Thank you for having written it!

The Forsaken One by chrmisha starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 32]
Two years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Auror Harry Potter is on a raid when he comes across a wizard long thought to be dead. A wizard that, if truly alive, would surely be killed the moment his identity is revealed. Which puts Harry in a bit of a bind.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape is Desperate
Tags: Injured!Snape, Kidnapped!Snape
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Profanity, Rape, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 8 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 08 Jul 2018 / 15 May 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 8: Chapter 8 17 Jul 2018
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    I generally go for stories where Snape or Harry saves the other. I had recently tired of graphic Snarry stories elsewhere, so came here to read a Snarry story or two at a site I KNEW did not allow slash. Imagine my surprise reading about the kind of sexual abuse that Snape had undergone--or the erection and semen use in the spell! If it weren't for the design, I wouldn't have thought I was at P&S!
    I think the fact that semen was involved at all (coupled with Snape's erection), pushed this story into a different category, drama-wise. I am not a prude--I admitted at the beginning of this review that I was reading Snarry slash elsewhere--and I am VERY well over the age of consent. But the level of intensity wrought by the sexual juice aspect of the spell ramped up one's expectations on a dramatic level as well. Certainly Harry and Snape did not have to become lovers. But the story just felt truncated, cut short, to me. The spell scene had been so intimate, with Harry and Snape necessarily being closer because of the spell, it just felt like that whole last chapter was "told about" rather than shown. Your earlier chapters show Harry actively interacting with not only Snape, but Ron and Hermione as well. Whereas in the epilog, we hear about Snape's changes, and Harry's lives as they're supposed to have moved on. But we didn't get to really FEEL those changes. Another thing: Snape (as a surname) has a more distancing feel to it. Imagine if Harry were only described as "Potter" throughout. Yet even just describing the actions in the epilog, it's Harry and Snape, not Harry and Severus--even if 'Steven' was mentioned. It's like Snape never truly recovered--the use of his surname to describe him kept him and his progress at an emotional remove to the reader. He started as Snape, he ended as Snape. Had you replaced all your mentions of "Snape" with "Severus" in this chapter, we would have felt his change more, it would have felt more intimate, period.
    I'm always glad to find stories where Snape is rescued by Harry, including this one. I'm just saying this particular story had a few problems for me. But thank you for having written it--I do appreciate all your hard work! Please know I submit this respectfully--no insult or hard feelings intended, at all. If I didn't like the story as well as I did, I would never have read through to the end, nor told you the few things that seemed to me could have been tightened up to make it even better. Keep on writing--you're doing well.

Building Doors by JAWorley starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 191]
[COMPLETE] After Harry blows up Aunt Marge and catches the Knight Bus to Diagonalley, he decides to take charge of his life when he learns he’s being sent back to Four Privet Drive. Harry spends the summer turning life in Diagonalley on its head, trying not to worry about the murderer Sirius Black, and attempting to avoid Severus Snape. In the midst of this he finds himself embroiled in an intense legal battle against Albus Dumbledore to decide his future. For the first time his fate rests solely in his own hands, and depend on the decisions he finds himself being forced to make. Harry wishes he could just be a thirteen year old boy, and begins to wonder if he’ll ever have the childhood he desires the most. Some of the warnings listed just as a precaution for things mentioned or alluded to.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Azkaban Character, Incognito!Harry, Injured!Harry, Runaway, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > Fic Fest 2018
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Suicide Themes, Violence
Chapters: 25 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 10 Aug 2021 / 17 Aug 2018
Series: Building Doors - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 13: The Potter Barrister, The Ruling, and Professor Snape’s Decision 26 May 2019
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed)
    Well. You made me cry at Harry's dire situation. The fact that Snape (who still doesn't really quite believe Harry) stepped up to take him in, coupled with Harry's anguish finally did it. Excellently done.


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