the Black Cat
Slytherin!
When Harry finds an injured Snape on his doorstep and must hide him from the Dursleys, he has no idea that this very, very bad day will be the start of something good.
Harry and Snape are thrown together by annoying relatives, a series of strange dreams, and Voldemort's latest hunt for Harry, but their greatest challenge may well be surviving each other. This will be a long summer unless the two can find a way to work together. A slow-burn enemy-to-mentor story.
Alternate 6th summer (and part of the school year): post-OotP; ignores HBP and DH.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Membership status: Member
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Reviews by krystarka
Rated: T
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 61 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 08 Mar 2021 / 30 Apr 2007
Series: None - Challenges: Battered Snape for Breakfast
Chapters: 61 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 08 Mar 2021 / 30 Apr 2007
Series: None - Challenges: Battered Snape for Breakfast
| Title: Chapter 30: Chapter 30 - Breaking Down Walls | 21 Dec 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- Hi! I'm out there :-)...
... and I love the way things are going ... the slowness of the approach between Harry and Severus is totally understandable but it makes me adore every little gesture!
Merry Christmas
Kry
Author's Response: Hello! *waves* It's so nice to know you're out there! :) I'm glad you're okay with the pace. I know it's slow going...I actually didn't think my story would be this long when I started out, but it didn't feel right to push them into getting along any faster. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a Merry Christmas as well!
Harry Potter is not a happy child. He carries a danger inside him that manifests itself soon after he arrives at Hogwarts, and it falls to his new Head of House, Severus Snape, to protect Harry, even from himself…
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 21 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 19 Jul 2011 / 28 May 2011
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 21 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 19 Jul 2011 / 28 May 2011
Series: None - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 13: The Thief | 04 Mar 2017 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- I have 6 cats... but I need a kneazle like Marlowe!
One unlucky hit with a strange spell. That's all it took to alter the course of Harry's life - and everyone else's life around him. Bound to stay within ten feet of each other, Harry Potter and Severus Snape have to learn to get along or die trying.
But sometimes in the hardest of times, one can learn things never imagined possible. After all, the past doesn't define the future.
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
But sometimes in the hardest of times, one can learn things never imagined possible. After all, the past doesn't define the future.
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 50 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Mar 2020 / 11 Jan 2014
Series: None - Challenges: Teacher Attack!, Multiple Challenges, Harry's Rant, Joined at the Hip, Secrets
Chapters: 50 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Mar 2020 / 11 Jan 2014
Series: None - Challenges: Teacher Attack!, Multiple Challenges, Harry's Rant, Joined at the Hip, Secrets
| Title: Chapter 36: Thirty-Six: She Has Chosen | 27 Sep 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- OMG! I really don't know how I lost this fic before today!
It's wonderful and very original: I like the idea of the black quill that poisons the magic in the students and I like 'the time traveler iDumbledore'for once, but the top is reached by 'Harry Hogwarts Headmaster'!
I can't wait to read the next chapters because there are still so many points to be addressed ...!
COMPLETE. Harry and Hermione go to a prestigious summer school, where Snape is a teacher. Unfortunately for Harry, Snape has spoken to the other staff and is on his way to turning the whole school against Harry.
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Canon Snape, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Canon Snape, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Romance/Het, Violence
Chapters: 30 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 31 Jul 2020 / 20 Jan 2014
Series: None - Challenges: Another School, Other wizarding cultures
Chapters: 30 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 31 Jul 2020 / 20 Jan 2014
Series: None - Challenges: Another School, Other wizarding cultures
| Title: Chapter 24: Somewhere Out There | 16 Sep 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- 'The Hogwarts Guardian' is a great idea! I love it... and I love this chapter...I've been waiting for it for a long time! :-)
Before it was my favorite fic... but now ... I am very undecided between this and 'Building Doors'!
It was the summer of love . . . er, no, not really. Left waiting for the Dursleys, Harry is found by the last person he'd expect to see. Written for the Summer Fic Fest 2015.
Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > #18 Summer 2015
Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > #18 Summer 2015
Rated: K+
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 29 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Jul 2019 / 24 Jul 2015
Series: None - Challenges: Bonding Experience, Abandoned
Chapters: 29 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Jul 2019 / 24 Jul 2015
Series: None - Challenges: Bonding Experience, Abandoned
| Title: Chapter 24: Chapter 24 | 01 Jun 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- OMG! I had never read this story before, but I love it! But there is one thing that I didn't understand: but Severus (and Albus) know about the extent of Harry's abuse? In some pieces it seems to me so but in others definitely not ...
Last thing: is there no chance that Marble will come back alive? I loved that crazy horse!
Blaise probably couldn't expect much, this time. Blaise was a Death Eater's kid, raised by, if not always Death Eaters, at least not blood traitors. Molly Weasley's soul was so clean it squeaked. It was a good thing Blaise had Snape to fall back on, for awhile. Mrs. Weasley was just too...not a Death Eater. Way, way too not a Death Eater to want to keep Blaise for very long.
Takes Place: 1st Year, 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 1st Year, 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 9 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 Mar 2019 / 19 Feb 2017
Series: Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat - Challenges: None
Chapters: 9 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 Mar 2019 / 19 Feb 2017
Series: Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 9: Trouble | 28 Nov 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- I had read LADTH some time ago and ... you hadn't written this story yet and I'd lost it when you started publishing it!
Luckily I saw it now!
I really love this fic because both your Harry and your Blaise are tough ... I really like your characterization and I can't wait to know what else can happen in these long Easter holidays!
Severus Snape hates Harry Potter. Nothing will ever change that. Nothing. Not even the boy’s sudden intrusion in his life. Or that cheeky smile. Or that all too innocent look. Or the sudden shift in his relationship with the Potter whelp. Not even those green eyes. No, nothing will ever change Severus’s hatred for Harry Potter – no matter how fond of him he was becoming. An eventual Snape adopts Harry story. Beginning in Harry’s first year.
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 38 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Mar 2024 / 10 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 38 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Mar 2024 / 10 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 13: Debilitate | 05 Feb 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- OH! I love so much this fic in Severus PoV! It's really amusing!
It's also the first time that I read a fic of this kind in only one point of view and I thinks it's a good idea because read many and many times the philosopher stone events it's boring... so, when arrive the next chapter?
Author's Response: I am so glad you are enjoying this story. I personally like it from Severus's point of view as well. It takes really looking from his eyes to understand what he is up to and thinking. I'm glad you are enjoying this. Thanks for the great review!
Severus Snape is cursed with an affliction that has him human by day and a centaur, named Ajax, by night. One night, Ajax rescues a lonely eleven-year-old Harry Potter and a bond forms between them. They meet each night from that point forward. As Ajax, Severus learns more about Harry than he would have ever wanted to learn. But without revealing himself to Harry, how can Severus help this orphaned boy?
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Creature!fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Creature!fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Sep 2022 / 11 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Potions, Snitches and Hooves
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Sep 2022 / 11 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Potions, Snitches and Hooves
| Title: Chapter 13: A Bad Ruse | 07 Feb 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- I have seen your fic in research many times but I never read it because I did not like Severus as a centaur ... in the end I started to read all the stories with chapters published recently, so also your fic and... I like it! I really like it even though I think Severus is a bit ooc, because Ajax is very kind and sweet with Harry (so cute!)
The presence of Remus (and Moony) amazed me and I really enjoyed it, as well as this last chapter with the final cliffhanger. Now I can not wait to read the following!
| Title: Chapter 19: Shadows and Mirrors | 19 Jun 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- the whole fight was great! I've been in suspense all the time!
I'm sorry for Harry but it's nice that he has become a deer horse and as a foal he is really cute!
Author's Response: I enjoyed writing him as a foal. Thank you so much for your review! Enjoy the next chapter. Stay healthy and safe!
After little Harry Potter runs away from his relatives’ home for the sixth time, Albus decides something drastic must happen. Instead of sending a friendly witch from family services like he had done before, he sends Severus Snape in hopes of scaring the boy into staying put. But when a blizzard interferes with plans, Severus learns why Harry keeps running away and a change of plans ensues.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 35 - Completed: No - Updated: 31 Mar 2024 / 23 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway
Chapters: 35 - Completed: No - Updated: 31 Mar 2024 / 23 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway
| Title: Chapter 15: MacAuley Estate | 13 Jun 2019 |
| Reviewer: krystarka (Signed) |
- I had read the first chapters of this story but then ... I didn't notice the updates!
I admit that when I began to understand that Harry and Severus would end up at Eileen's house, I didn't like it very much ... I don't know why, it just didn't seem like the right way ...
But now that they have arrived at MacAuley Estate (and that has Mr. Trifle) everything seems just perfect!
I can't wait to read the sequel, now that Harry has finally called Mr. Snape 'Daddy'!
Author's Response: Thank you so much for your words and long review! I am so glad you are enjoying the story. So sorry for a long update, but I hope you enjoy the next chapter!