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As a dedicated fan of the character of Severus Snape and his interactions with Harry Potter, I was active on the site between November 2014 and January 2017. After a break, I recently returned (May 2020) because writing and reading fanfiction seems to be a great way of escapism in these troubled days of the pandemic!

Stories and series are listed below. They are far from perfect, but I loved thinking up every one of them, and I’m most proud over the fact that they are all completed :-) Please read and enjoy! 


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Stars at His Feet by shadowienne starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 7]
Occlumency lessons take an unexpected turn when Snape takes Harry stargazing.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 Feb 2015 / 12 Feb 2015
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1 15 Feb 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    Thanks for describing such a beautiful scene. I like your Snape, very much IC, but with that hidden, caring side added to it. A pity he wouldn't tell Harry about Lily.

    Author's Response: I believe Snape feels that revealing the universe is personal enough; to tell Harry about Lily would way overstep Snape's privacy boundaries! His mission is to help Lily's son learn Occlumency, and if he has to take him stargazing to ultimately accomplish this, he'll do it. But he still has to keep that pesky Potter in his place! Glad you enjoyed the story! Many thanks for reading and reviewing! :-)

Double Vision by Pandora starstarstarstar [Reviews - 50]
Harry and Hermione get caught up in a dangerous and bizarre scheme cooked up by Bellatrix and Snape. Can this nightmare possibly end well?

Takes Place: 3rd summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Kidnapped
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 10 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 17 Mar 2015 / 16 Mar 2015
Series: None - Challenges: Kidnapped duo
Title: Chapter 2: Stealth 17 Mar 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    I enjoy the plot. It is all a little creepy. Nice touch to have Hermione nearly sorted into Slytherin - I gather that it is a hint of what is to come (I'm reading this for the second time)

    Author's Response: Thanks. If ever I get the energy to work more on  it, I will expand it and build on it, rather than lengthen the story itself, but there are some interesting possiblities.

    Author's Response: Thanks. If ever I get the energy to work more on  it, I will expand it and build on it, rather than lengthen the story itself, but there are some interesting possiblities.

Title: Chapter 10: Epilogue 17 Mar 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    Thank you, I liked the story. I think the short chapters were kind of neat and I appreciated the way you showed us the development, in action and in dialogue, instead of explaining things squarely. That kept the suspense up.

    Author's Response: Oh, thank you. I am sorry that the chapters were so short, but did that on purpose to help me along, and not to get overwhelmed.

Believing is Seeing by LBibliophile starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 35]
Harry has a secret, and his magic helps him hide it. But all secrets come out sooner or later; they are easy to uncover if you know what to look for.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 7 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 05 Aug 2015 / 14 Apr 2015
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 4: Facade 24 May 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    Your story is different and I’m glad because after reading a few ”abused Harry” stories, they all start looking the same…
    Firstly, you are so right in pointing out that the crucial thing is to see the abuse. We tend to make ourselves blind as we don’t want to be made aware of the evil in the world, especially not when children are involved. And I think it is very clever to have the magical glamours involved to illustrate that.
    Secondly I really appreciate the way you make Mme Pomfrey react when she discovers the abuse and how she abstains from acting right away, for Harry’s own sake. That describes the dilemma from the point of view of medical professionals: your instinct is to act straight off and appease your own feelings of outrage, but the difficult thing is to actually see that it might not benefit the child right now. Instead you need to keep calm and figure out how to help that particular child, without making things worse… Mme Pomfrey does exactly that as she realises that Harry’s fame will be a complicating factor and that the gossip might hurt him just as much.
    Lastly, I read in your response to one of the other reviews that you mean to say that Harry actually is not aware of his glamours and that he actually believes that everyone can see his bruises, but that they don’t care - is that so? It makes sense, because that must be how abused children experience reality. Although from reading your text, I did not get that - I thought that Harry made the glamours work intentionally and the magic just faltered at times when Snape saw through them. I thought that Harry was unsuspicious because he still thought that his glamours worked and kept people away. Maybe it should be made clearer in the text? It is more interesting this way, anyhow, with Harry applying glamours subconsciously.

    Author's Response: Thanks for the review. I'm glad that you like the story and I've managed to make it different enough, you're right, most of them do tend to follow a formula. It's great to see that you understand what I was going for with Madam Pomphrey. I've had a couple of people over on ff.net asking why she didn't just act straight away and I was worried that I hadn't shown her motivation clearly enough. I was trying to be more realistic, showing that it is actually a complex issue (also plot requirements...) Harry doesn't realise about the glamours, he thinks everyone can see and just doesn't mention it, which is sort of what he wants. When he is at school he doesn't want to think about the Dursleys, and he doesn't want anyone else to either. He doesn't really consider his friends or teachers helping him as an actual possibility. I made a couple of comments along those lines in the first chapter, but maybe I need to make it a bit clearer; the next chapter is back to his point of view and should help clear up a few things. If you note, the times when the glamour fails are when someone is expecting (subconsciously or not) to see injuries. This was one of the key ideas behind this fic.

Title: Chapter 5: Glamour 28 Jun 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    Thanks for this chapter which explains some of the magic behind the glamours. Naturally they would be a piece of disillusionment magic and perhaps in the case of Harry’s special glamour, that have people see what they want to see, it is combined with some sort of confounding charm, too? I find it most entertaining to figure out how magic works :-)


    But your story has a serious theme which I also find really interesting. What I’m trying to understand is exactly why Harry’s accidental magic produces that kind of glamour. As I see it, accidental magic is set off by emotional instability in the magical child, mostly anger or fear, and the effect is to protect the child. This glamour of his seems counterproductive that way, as it makes everyone blind to the abuse he is subjected to. I understand that children who suffer abuse might want to conceal the evidence of it, because they are ashamed of it and somehow feel guilty about what happens to them (and sometimes are loyal to the perpetrators despite everything), but in this case, as Harry thinks that everyone can see his injuries, it does not make sense. He is not really ashamed, is he - he simply has this warped picture of the world not caring about his condition. And his accidental glamour works against him here.
    Then I thought that maybe the glamour was something that initially developed to be able to please people around him (and thus, in a way, protect him after all) - because people like to see what they expect, don’t they? Makes them feel safe and happy with themselves for being right. Maybe Harry’s glamour could be a metaphor for this chameleon thing, this ”false self” that Muggle psychoanalytical theory speak of? I’m sorry, I only have a vague idea of what that is about, but that was my association.

    I also realise how accurate your title is. ”Believing is seeing”. It actually goes both ways, doesn’t it? You believe what you see (even if it is false/a glamour, because you seldom make an effort to see beyond the surface in people), and you project what you believe on what you’re seeing (like Snape does when he restores Harry to James’ appearance).

    I’m sorry, this was a long review, but the subject is complicated and engaging. I want to commend you for taking it on and creating this story to illustrate it. I’m looking forward to the next chapter!

    Author's Response: Wow, you've clearly put a lot of thought into my story and the review. Thankyou, it makes me consider what I am saying in more depth too. In Harry's case, the trigger for his glamours was Vernon's reaction to his primary school teacher asking questions about his bruises (mentioned chapter 1). His magic wants to stop people from asking questions, but also doesn't want the Dursleys to think that he is doing anything 'freaky'; thus the expectations-based glamour. The wizarding world's perception of him as the boy-who-lived helps strengthen the disguise. Harry's own reaction to what is happening is sort of interesting. On one level he actually believes he deserves their treatment of him because of his freakishness, and is just glad that everyone else is considerate enough not to bring it up. mostly at Hogwarts he prefers to forget about it himself. That was the point with the title. It is based on the idea of the saying that 'if you know the problem you're half way to finding a solution'.

Title: Chapter 6: Illusion 16 Jul 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    Thanks for the new chapter and the further elucidations about the glamours - I am starting to feel that I understand most of it now :-)

Tears of an Angel by Magica Draconia starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 4]
Just once, he wants to see her smile.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Misc > Strictly Canon Universe, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 23 Apr 2015 / 23 Apr 2015
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Tears of an Angel 26 Apr 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    This is so terribly sad and almost unbearably frustrating. As I read, my chest constricts and I feel like wailing, like Lily, out of angst. Because there is no understanding, no evolution in Snape and no soothing, no release for the frustration.
    It’s such a brilliant idea to have Lily as a weeping ghost around S. You can picture it very clearly and I truly believe that this version is very close to canon S, who, I’m afraid, was probably emotionally handicapped and a very frustrated man.
    The only draw-back is that you need to be closely up-to-date with the plot in PS to be able to follow the various developments in the text.
    The atmosphere in the story is almost unbearable… But I enjoy it all the same :-)

Life as an Auror by SHallow Round robin starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 12]
Harry joins the Aurors and whose portrait would he carry in his honor but Severus Snape.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: New Identity!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 9 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 Nov 2016 / 10 May 2015
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 6: Chapter 6 10 Sep 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    Thanks for updating! This story is kind of refreshingly unconventional in a setting that is unfamiliar to me and therefore intrigues me. I liked the mutual ”I never thought you… cared much, really” and ”Nice to know you care so much, Potter”.
    Snape seems strangely detached, emotionally, though, but that might be because he is a portrait. It will be fun if they find the real Snape alive. How does a portrait address its own prototype - are they the same person, or is the portrait-person different somehow from the original? Interesting! I’m glad that you did get some work done on your own story, besides beta-ing mine… :-)

    Author's Response: I want the story to be cannon, and well Harry's naming Albus Severus on the name of Severus seems a little unbelievable so I decided to let Snape live and die after a while while he has protected and proven his worth to Harry before then. I have imagined that the portrait will be alive even then when he comes back, and they might have some trouble at first (maybe Snape finds himself too horrible looking in the portrait and thus cuts or washes his greasy hair? hmmm) I am actually finally typing my novel, making sure it is proper and all which is why I can't really upload that fast. :) Maybe next week or so, I dunno....

Moonscapes by shadowienne starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 13]
Harry’s Halloween trip to an art gallery leads to shocking surprises for both him and Snape.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Vampires
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 31 Oct 2015 / 31 Oct 2015
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Moonscapes 31 Oct 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    Oh, I do like when art and magic meet. I have come across it in a couple of stories, but not many, before and I enjoyed your take on it! And a female vampire that defended Harry - liked that!

    Author's Response: I've been fascinated by JKR's concept of moving portraits since I saw the first HP film. Most of the time, we just see the peopled paintings, but my imagination got the better of me and I began to fantasize about moonlit landscapes which "moved"... Who would paint such pictures? Then came the vampire, who appears to be one of Harry's own fans! And throw in the disbelieving Dursleys... Well, I had a blast working with this story! So glad you liked it! And many thanks for your review! 🎃

Past Featured Story Allhallowtide by Dream Painter starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 38]
Halloween approaches and this year the Veil will be its thinnest, yet, allowing those who did not become ghosts the opportunity to interact with the living. Not all spirits are benign, however – and not all wards are fail-proof.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Desperate
Tags: Alternate Universe, Hospitalization
Categories: Fic Fests > #19 Halloween 2015, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Violence
Chapters: 7 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 31 Oct 2015 / 31 Oct 2015
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 3: Chapter 2 31 Oct 2015
Reviewer: Henna Hypsch (Signed)
    Great story - very creepy with the face in the glass jar and the ingredients that suddenly clump together because of the moisture from death…

    Author's Response: Thank yoouu - I really wanted to make sure the creepy started before things really started to go down, so I just had to use the face-in-jar thing. And naturally, poor Harry couldn't just rebrew his potion in peace! That'd be too easy. :P


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