When Harry blows up Aunt Marge, Dumbledore decides he can't be left to his own devices in Diagon Alley for the whole of August and sends him to stay with the only person available - one highly displeased Severus Snape. Harry, for his part, doesn't think this summer could get any worse. After all, what could be more unpleasant than living with Professor Snape?

Finding out that Draco Malfoy is also staying at Spinner’s End, of course.

None of them know how they'll survive a month in each others' company, but they might just come out the other side with something they all need the most: a family.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Cranky
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Sibling Addition
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Reeling from his godfather’s death, Harry Potter is withering away in Surrey. His friends believe him when he writes to tell them that he is fine—although, they should know better.

Dumbledore finds an Auror with a sketchy background to take over the Defence classes, and the fact that she lacks the qualifications to teach and would rather cut off her wand hand than take the job doesn’t seem to register with the older man.

With one look at the Chosen One, Hogwarts’ new professor can see that the boy is hurting something fierce. The fact that no one else in Dumbledore’s precious Order of the Phoenix seems to have noticed is perhaps a sign that it was high time she joined up—personal consequences be damned.

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Severitus-beginning between years four and five. Harry is overcome with guilt over the death of Cedric Diggory and has isolated himsef from those who care. A strange gift arrives on his fifteenth birthday that changes everything.

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge

Dark secrets and an even darker past threaten to destroy the boy on whom the entire wizarding world has pinned their hopes. Can Severus Snape find it within him to heal and accept the broken child of his nemesis, and in the process, ultimately heal and accept himself? (AU-ish, but follows canon. Severitus - mentor/adoption - WARNING: mentions sexual abuse, but no details)

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind
Tags: Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Healer Snape, Reverse Roles > Healer Harry, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

What if Harry was left in the backyard when he was 9 years old and largely ignored by the Dursleys? If Snape found him two years later, the summer before he is due to start Hogwarts, what would Harry’s rescue and recovery be like? Would he ever be a normal kid? Warnings: Abusive Dursleys

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape