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Final Note 6 - June 2018:

Although it has already been a long time since I have posted or updated anything, it is time to make it official.

I will no longer be writing fanfiction.

I haven't come to this decision because I have run out of ideas or inspiration for my current works - to the contrary, I have put a lot of thought and planning into each of them. Even now, the moments and scenes I had planned live happily in my head. The issue becomes the fact that I have limited free time, so I must choose how to spend it. This is why there have so often been extremely long breaks between updates. In turn, this becomes unfair to readers, as I know that they often have limited free time as well and it is very easy to forget the plot of a story that wasn't born within your own head (and sometimes even then!).

Now, I know many of you would continue to wait for updates. We lovers of fanfiction are tenacious that way. However, since my free time is limited, I have decided that my focus needs to be on my original works.

In that spirit, though a part of me is saddened, I hereby abandon all my current works-in-progress. I will not be updating them again. However, I also open my stories up for adoption, should anyone be interested in continuing them in my stead. (Though, to be clear, I don't honestly think anyone would, but) I ask only that I be credited and that no large portions of my work, incomplete or no, be copied by another (so please link/direct readers back to my work if you continue it).

I've had such a great time in this fandom. Thanks to all who've helped keep the magic alive!

Warm regards,

Dream Painter

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ABANDONED:- Five Slytherins, two Hufflepuffs, three Ravenclaws, and two Gryffindors including the Boy-Who-Lived – what do they have in common? Well, a snarky Potions Master, for one. After all, someone has to look out for abused kids at Hogwarts. Sometimes, it's each other.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Profanity, Romance/Slash, Self-harm
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Apr 2017 / 24 Apr 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
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
ABANDONED:- When the wards suddenly fall at Privet Drive, members of the Order immediately apparate to the location to find the Dursley parents dead – and their mistreated nephew locked in the cupboard under the stairs. Retrieving the boy is but the start of a long road to recovery. Can time truly heal? Or will even the magic of Hogwarts prove inadequate sanctuary for a wary, abused child?

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Child fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > Keepers of the Snitch
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 Oct 2015 / 20 Sep 2015
Series: None - Challenges: The Theft
Dragging Harry Potter to his office after his Slytherin has been caught fighting with a classmate, Snape finds himself duly chastised for a misdeed of his own.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Girl!Harry, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 26 Sep 2015 / 26 Sep 2015
Series: None - Challenges: Harry is a Boy's Name
By third year, Harry was starting to think he knew his own identity. Then, the discovery of an old secret threatens to throw his world into turmoil, yet again. Nor is he the only one who finds his life affected...

Who is he, anyway?

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Physical Impairment, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Neglect, Profanity
Chapters: 39 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 15 Sep 2015 / 04 Mar 2010
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry is already finding fourth year stressful, but then McGonagall informs him that as a champion, he has to have a date to the Ball. The problem is that Harry's not the least bit interested – in anyone – and he can't seem to find a way out of it.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Nov 2014 / 03 Nov 2014
Series: None - Challenges: None
"I see you still have no end of dunderheaded ideas," Snape grumbled, shooting Harry a mutinous glare. It might have been more effective if his tone had not been so high-pitched, or if he didn't currently stand at a height just below Harry's shoulder.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe, Deaged!Snape
Categories: Reverse Roles > Big Brother Harry
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Oct 2014 / 20 Oct 2014
Series: None - Challenges: Halloween, Deaged Snape
Harry comes to Snape's office to give him a Christmas gift. The wrapping paper had broomsticks and snitches scattered between trees and snowmen. How very predictable. Companion piece to A Box of Every Flavor Beans.

Takes Place: None - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Misc > Keepers of the Snitch
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 25 Dec 2012 / 25 Dec 2012
Series: None - Challenges: None
No one else would pack up Snape's belongings, so Harry volunteered. Post DH, pre-Epilogue

Takes Place: 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 Jul 2011 / 12 Jul 2011
Series: None - Challenges: None
Locking Harry in the broom closet was the catalyst that unlocked a whole flurry of issues that young Harry and Severus must now begin to work through... together.

In answer to the Locked in a cupboard Challenge by Jan_AQ.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 7 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 Jan 2011 / 30 Aug 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Locked in a cupboard

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