Ravenclaw!
Before Harry arrives at Hogwarts, the faculty have a meeting and decide that Harry will need a mentor to help him adjust, keep him out of trouble, and make protecting him easier. They decide that this person should the Head of the House into which Harry is sorted, presumably Minerva McGonagall. But things, of course, don't turn out as planned, and Harry is harder to deal with than anyone expected. Nobody asked him if he wanted a mentor, after all...
NOTE: This story has a prologue. It is not necessary to the plot of the story, but if you wish to read it, it is called(predictably enough) 'Prologue to Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat'
Takes Place: 1st Year
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Membership status: Member
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Reviews by sproutchild
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Profanity
Chapters: 35 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Jul 2010 / 15 Mar 2009
Series: Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat - Challenges: None
Chapters: 35 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Jul 2010 / 15 Mar 2009
Series: Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 30: Winner takes All | 22 Mar 2010 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- Aww, gorgeous in its gorgeousness ^^
As ever I cant wait for more and really hope that ideas bombard you during your haitus (in the nicest, gentlest, least-bombardy way possible ^^... ideas attacking like rogue bludgers arent conducive to speedy writing ^^)
I love Harry having a little (or not so little ^^) team of protectors and his troubledness and the fic is just so full of some of the best ideas snape/harry fics have to offer that I really look forward to every single update of yours and hope another one comes soon ^-^
have fun and hope the writing niffler bites you... in the friendliest, most un-bitey way possible ^^
Author's Response: Lol Thank you with much thankfulness! I glad you liked it likefully. LOL you at least used actual words, but whatever. Oh wait, no, 'un-bitey' and 'non-bombardy' are definitely not words. S'all good. :0) Thanks for the review!! You made me smile.
| Title: Chapter 32: Homeless | 27 May 2010 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- Awwwwwww!!! Dont you just wanna hug Harry? And Snape? And Blaise... just for good measure. I'm so looking forward to further developments on this particular issue of Harry's, despite the other (many) issues he's had through this fic, this idea that none of these relationships will actually last has been the most pervasive... and the cause of all the rest really. Absolutely cant wait for more (and I realise how incredibly greedy that sounds given how busy you've been and that you just updated with an awesome, rather long chapter, so thank you for that! You've brightened this period of procrastination that is the last three weeks of my first uni semester *cookies for you!!!*)
The sheer amount of work it sounded like you had to do sounds horrifyingly tedious, bet you're glad that's over (although are there more papers and exams in your future?) - Sure you did incredibly well with them though ^^ - Hope your period of r&r is (was?... hopefully is) fun and relaxing and full of writing (because this fic is just that awesome).
Have fun and stay safe (and write lots... sorry ^^)
x
Author's Response: Hey, thanks for the nice long review!! I'm glad you liked the chapter, and I agree with you. The idea that nobody is going to stay with him in any lasting manner is a real 'issue' with Harry, so hopefully this last flare-up will get it resolved a bit. And my exams and stuff went well, thank you. It was nuts for awhile in there, but I managed. :0) Hope you enjoy this next chapter! Thanks again for the review!
| Title: Chapter 34: Flames | 22 Jul 2010 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- I am so in love with this fic, I think I might have to do something to grieve when it ends... or to celebrate its life... like rereading it daily... or something...
How can you not love this protective, possessive and (when it comes to Harry) push-over Sev? I just wanna cuddle him and keep him under my bed to pull out for warm fuzzies on rainy days. Absolutely adore that last line... hes so gorgeous but he can be so silly, does he really think he wont be adopting Harry at some point, likely very soon? Silly Sev. As always your Harry's development is really well paced too, Im looking forward to what you write once this is finished (please tell me you have plans for your talent after this is over? *holds breath in nervous anticipation... and passes out...*)
Have fun! ^^ (and much love for your bunnies which are always interesting, even with beauty marks)
DEATH EATER KIDNAPS BOY WHO LIVED! read the newspaper headlines across magical Britain. SS, HP/HG. Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. Response to the Unmagical Harry Potter Challenge by Jan_AQ.
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: K
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 05 May 2009 / 05 May 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Unmagical Harry Potter
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 05 May 2009 / 05 May 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Unmagical Harry Potter
| Title: Chapter 1: Running Away | 14 Oct 2009 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- I love this fic so much, it's just gorgeous and is more warming than a good hot chocolate ^^
Part of your fic in particular pounced on me and wont let go, I hope you don't mind it but if you do let me know?
have fun and never stop writing, you'ro too good ^^ x
First there was Remus Lupin, then Sirius Black. After having lived with Severus for two years -- as a students as well as a ward -- how will the relationships to his father's old friends develop?
Takes Place: 4th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Takes Place: 4th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 4 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Oct 2009 / 09 Jun 2009
Series: Path Not Taken - Challenges: None
Chapters: 4 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Oct 2009 / 09 Jun 2009
Series: Path Not Taken - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 3: Introducing Lupin's Cottage | 18 Nov 2009 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- Aww this is the cutest chapter! Remus is gorgeous - and Sirius... is a bit of an idiot but he's Sirius so there we go ^^, and Sev is just... Sev, big fluffy kitty on the inside, all snark on the outside ^^ very nice ^-^
have fun x
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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 26: Letting the Outside In | 18 Nov 2009 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- Yay!!! I love this fic sooooo much I just keep rereading my favourite bits, I think I have some memorised now ^-^
"Harry had heard enough and Severus really didn't want his child to get upset over anything Molly might say" - this gave me the warmest little squiggly feeling, that little one you get in a really well written severitus just after he finds out Harry's is and starts saying and thinking it, and everytime he said something about 'his child' the squiggle got bigger, thanks for extra squiggles!!!
and this - "I warn you his condition may shock you, but I must caution you against showing your shock to Harry" reminded me of when my grandma had cancer, she looked so different and I was told before I saw her the same thing word for word (although it didnt matter about not letting her see it, she was so great about it that we all felt like we could be honest in our reactions), but you wrote that really well too, especially Harry's apprehension and Molly's as well. It must be very strange for a wizard to hear about (or see) the effects of cancer, it's shocking enough when you've grown up knowing what it is.
Sev's finally gonna get to that order meeting next, that'll be... uh... interesting. Probably a good thing sirius isnt around to make the situation ten times worse (imagine his reaction *shivers*) then again Dumbles is making things hard enough.
I loved your last line too, I live fics that are like one big f*** you to wizarding society that expects a teenager to fight their war for them, and I cant imagine anyone being sneakier and more conniving than Sev to get Harry the freedom he should have had all along (it is a bit of a pitfall with the books isnt it, the fact that Harry's life has basically been decided by Trelawny of all people.)
I continue to love the way you weave facts into this fic so full of imagination and fantasy like they belong there, it's so smooth to read and you're teaching me stuff I didnt know hehe (yes, I need a HP fic to teach me hospital terminology... I never said I was smart ^^) I really cant wait for more but I'll really try to breathe until you're able to update ^^ *drowns you in cookies* - muffins hurt less but you're in a cookie mood ^-^ (quite a good mood to be in actually... damn, we're out of cookies... hope if you gave in to the temptation to look you managed to find some ^^)
and good luck with your busy thanksgiving working time... thing... man that came out horribly didnt it? But anyway, good luck - dont forget to smile lots and lots ^^
have fun x
Author's Response:
Wow, you have parts memorized? I don't think I even have parts memorized. lol.
Yay for extra squiggles. I'm sure there'll be more to come.
Word for word that's what you were told? That's awesome. Well, not about your grandma, but that I basically nailed in it a believable way. Grandmas can be crazy, at least one of mine is in a good way and I can totally see a grandma not caring about anyone else's reactions. Harry, though, well he's a teenager and at the stage where he's naturally self-conscious, but I think his upbringing made him more self-conscious than a lot of guys.
About the meeting, Dumbledore will be enough, but remember there's a drunken Lupin that might cause some of his own fireworks. Of course, in his drunkenness they could be about anything. lol.
Honestly, I didn't know i was going to end the chapter there, and then that line popped into my head, and it was like that's the end of the chapter. Sev will never let his teenage son fight Voldemort. I don't even think he'd let Harry fight him after he came of age. lol. Part of it is protectiveness, but I also think Sev knows he's done more than enough for the war, and with his son is where he's going to draw the line.
I'm so glad it's smooth to read for you. Sometimes it's hard to balance the facts and not overload you with them, so I'm glad you aren't feeling overwhelmed by information. lol. And yay for learning. I love learning stuff when I read, so I guess I like to pass that on. Thanks!
| Title: Chapter 27: The Knight Checks the King | 08 Jan 2010 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- Reading it on here is like getting an extra chapter so yay! ^^
I have to say, I did so love those last two parts of this chapter; the sleepy conversation and Sev's pondering, as much as angst is usually what keeps a fic going it's these moments that I read for, so thanks!!! *more cookies and muffins ^-^*
Hopefully your muse will come out of hiding again soon and the writing will flow again (perhaps yours is hiding with mine TT)
Good luck with everything, hope life's being nice(r) ^^
*picks up homemade lollypop and leaves a cookie* thanks!
Author's Response:
Yay, I loved the last two parts, too. Writing the angst is fun, but the other stuff helps to develop a character and gives me a break from the angst. I can't write pure angst all the time without burning out on it. ;)
Since you forgot to sign in when you reviewed on FF, I'll just reply here.
*Dodges pillows and missiles*
I'm on the fence as to whether Dumbledore just doesn't care or if he's simply overlooking the gravity of the situation. For the meeting with him, for once I don't think it promises to be too angsty. Sev deserves a bit of a break after the next chapter.
Things are starting to depress Harry. It'll be interesting to see how he reacts at Sirius' memorial. I have some idea, but he hasn't told me everything yet. Thanks!
Oh, and yes, Adrian and Tristan decided to be a bit more cooperative. *Picks up cookie*
| Title: Chapter 35: Like Father, Like Son? | 10 Jul 2010 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- Yay! They match!! and Yay! London!! Are you nervous/excited/thrilled/squeeing uncontrollably? I know what I'd be doing ^^ (...*squee! ... have a muffin ^^*) - regardless, I'll squee for you ^^
This chapter was so gorgeous and cute ^^ - I love that Harry didnt need to see the other memory... I wonder if he ever will...? (*dum dum dum*... = suspenseful music... 'tis so!). And as always your descriptions of occlumency and mindscapes are so fascinatingly... fascinating ^^, I love that even those golden orbs acted like Sev does with Harry, nice piece of writing, that *nods* mmhmm. And the memory he did so was so AWWWW, you cant not smile when reading that ^^ (makes me long for more Sev/baby!Harry chapters/ficlets)
... as to your foreshadowing question on ff.net... well, I have to say I didnt like Sev's; "The Dark Lord will have to kill me before he gets to you." because we obviously do not want voldy getting to either of them and if Sev decides he wants to be Harry's bullet-proof vest (voldy-proof vest?) well... he just better not die... lastingly...
Oooh, but I wonder if: he Dark Lord was most likely sending Harry reminders through the scar on a consistent basis, but between all the side effects from his treatments and doses of pain medication Harry didn't even realize it. - means that Harry might be able to use the cancer or the treatment to his advantage? Oooh! Am I so very far off base in my foreshadowing guesses? *sighs* I'll have to try harder I think ^^.
But thank you muchly for the chapter because this fic can only get awesomer as it goes on ^^ - totally a word and you know it ^^. Have the most fun ever in London, it'll be an absolute blast and I bet you love it and never want to leave and be safe and hope the trip(s) are full of sleep and interesting sight-seeing and singalongs... or not ^^... travel safe and have fun and tell us all about it when you can!!!
x! ^^
Author's Response:
A trip to London full of sleep? What's that? LOL. I had never been up so early for so many days since I was in high school. It was a blast though and nearly a month later I still think I'm working on catching up on sleep especially since the first two weeks I was back I kept waking up early because my body wasn't used to US time anymore.
Yay, you loved the chapter! It was a tough one to write. Don't get too used to the Awww's. It's me we're talking about so angst is surely just around the corner. ;) I'm sure I'll write more baby Harry one-shots eventually. They're fun to write.
Voldy-proof vest? That's just an amazing phrase. You'll have to wait and see if you're guesses are right or not... Thanks!
Harry Potter's in an accident, and guess who has to look after him?
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Baby fic, Deaging
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Baby fic, Deaging
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 17 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 15 Dec 2009 / 09 Aug 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Tug, Yes to Lemon Drops
Chapters: 17 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 15 Dec 2009 / 09 Aug 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Tug, Yes to Lemon Drops
| Title: Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Unfaithful Ingredients | 06 Dec 2009 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- Awww! Potions Master Harry ^^ - very very cute, and wouldnt it be just hilarious if Harry accidentally defeats Voldemort and no one's the wiser ^-^ Very gorgeous how Remus cant resist little Harry too... cant wait to see how that pans out. As for Draco, Hermione and Ron... well I do so love it when they get all cutesy with Harry in baby!fics but if they arent going to do that then Sev's current method is perfectly fine with me ^-^
Isnt he the most wonderful dada ^^
Very very cute, right now I'm happy if Harry never grows up... although I'm looking forward to reading how your Sev will deal with a slightly older Harry, let alone what might happen when he's back to teen... so many questions! ^^
Have fun!!! I know I would writing in this world you've created ^^
Author's Response:
Aww, thanks! Glad you like it so far! ^_^ And Potions MAster Harry's got a nice little ring to it, doesn't it? lol And you'll get to see how everything turns out really soon. All questions should be answered. And I'm just tickled you really like the story. Thanks again for the review! :D
| Title: Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Unbelievable Discovery | 01 Nov 2009 |
| Reviewer: sproutchild (Signed) |
- "Staring down at his son in the utmost shock, the baby simply giggled up at his father’s face, as though he were taking his revenge out on the world for having laid all their hopes on him in the first place. " - oooh, nice bit of writing there, take that wizarding world ^^ I really like the turn that took, it really takes the sting out of all of Dumbledore's ambitions for Harry if he isnt the chosen one anymore ^^
And of course this was oh so cute too ^^, little Harry is adorable and little Snapey is getting very cute too (though if anyone called him that he would no doubt gut them still ^^)
And I for one dont mind the wait for chapters because they're always excellent when they come and you have a life, we're lucky you're writing us stories at all so thanks ^^
Hope you had fun trick or treating (there were literally little monsters running around everywhere yesterday, and their rather strange looking parents ^-^) and I hope life gets a bit better for you, it sounds a little chaotic lately (hope you avoid the H1N1, can get nasty apparently)
Oooh, you're giving away shakespearean sonnets? I knew he was alive in your basement! (attic? cellar? shed?... under your bed? ^-^)
Have fun and stay safe, hope life eases off a bit ^-^ x
Author's Response:
Aww! Thanks sprout! That means a lot. I was afraid people were gunna get mad that I hadn't written for a while, but I really have been busy the last few weeks. Although some times I wish all I had to do was write fanfic. That would be kinda cool...but yay! So glad you liked the chapter! I wanted Dumbles plans to be thwarted in this fic, and what better way to do that then get rid of the chosen one? And Sev's getting VERY protective of HIS baby. But I'm really glad you liked the ending line. I usually try to end this with little fun things, but this time I couldn't help but put a jab in there.
Since you're the first one to mention Shakespeare, I will give you a sonnet! You get sonnet CXXX. And since you're the first, you may look it up on YouTube and LISTEN to ALAN RICKMAN read it!! You get the grand prize here! Oh! And thanks for reminding me to feed Bill. He's, uh, in the basement of my dorm...couldn't fit him in the closet. ;D Thanks again!