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As Fate Would Have It by TheLostBoys333 starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 10]
Eight years after the war, the veil in the Department of Mysteries takes unexplained action and somehow brings Severus Snape back to life. Only, the former professor and spy is now a four-year-old boy with no family and all of his past memories. Harry steps in to take care of the little boy, vowing to help him heal from his first life of trauma while keeping him safe from the dangers that still stalk their world. He becomes desperate to repay all the man had done for him now he had the chance. However, somewhere along the way, Severus Snape becomes far more than just a duty.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Deaged!Snape
Categories: Reverse Roles > Parental Harry
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Character Bashing, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Out of Character, Panic attack, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 Sep 2025 / 01 Aug 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
This Night Has Opened My Eyes by Archie-png starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 1]
It’s Halloween night, and the year is 1981. Severus Snape is distraught over Lily’s death, and goes to wallow in his misery in a lead-colored river near his house in Spinner’s End. While cursing at the world and everything around him, he stumbles upon a worn cradle that constants a peculiar baby with the last name Potter.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Angry, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Addicted!Snape, Adoption, Baby fic, Deaged!Harry, Deaged!Snape
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Drug use, Out of Character, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 26 Jul 2025 / 26 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
The Boy In The Shrieking Shack by Scott Berg starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 33]
What will be found in the Shrieking Shack after the final battle, who is the mysterious child and what has happened to Severus Snape? (Starts the morning after the battle)

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Adoption, Child fic, Deaged!Snape
Categories: Reverse Roles > Parental Harry
Rated: K - Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 14 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Jul 2022 / 27 Apr 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Non Solum by waitingondaisies starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 164]
Severus Snape was discovered as a spy mere days before the start of the school year. Thankfully, Albus had been working on a vague contingency plan for this possibility. It had been inspired by the question, “What would it take for Severus Snape to see that he was wrong about Harry Potter?”

The answer? Force Severus to go undercover as Alfonse “Eli” Hopkirk, a sixth year Gryffindor.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Alternate Universe, Deaged!Snape, Disguised!Snape, Gryffindor!Snape, Incognito!Snape, Injured!Harry
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Romance/Het
Chapters: 24 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 02 Jan 2020 / 26 Sep 2019
Series: Forgiveness and Redemption - Challenges: None
Young Again by JAWorley starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 31]
When a potion explodes in NEWT Potions class, Severus Snape finds himself in an interesting predicament… he really hates when people stare at him. Ron thinks Harry has a hero complex when he tries to help Snape, but has no idea that Harry is the one that needs saving. A one-shot.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Deaged!Snape, Deaging, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Suicide Themes, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Jun 2017 / 22 Jun 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Youth Is The Gift Of Nature by beargirl1393 starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 14]
Due to a Potions accident, both Severus Snape and Remus Lupin have been de-aged. Both are now three months old, and it's up to Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy to put their rivalry aside for long enough to take care of them until an antidote can be found.

Takes Place: 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Baby fic, Child fic, Deaged!Snape, Deaging
Categories: Reverse Roles > Parental Harry
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 06 Mar 2017 / 26 Feb 2017
Series: None - Challenges: The Lupin-Snapes
Tight Spaces by Summer Leigh WInd starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 8]
"This is a nice hiding spot," Harry lies. The little professor scoffs.

"I know better ones," he declares.

"Oh yeah? Like what?" Harry inquires, actually a little curious to see what he'll say.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Deaged!Snape, Deaging
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
Rated: T - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Jun 2016 / 18 Jun 2016
Series: None - Challenges: None
Misguided Fate by watercrystals starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 86]
Harry and Severus are struck by rare magic-infused lightning, triggering de-aging and altering effects. Four-year-old Harry and twenty-one-year-old Severus move to the Burrow, but Fate isn't finished with them yet...

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Deaged!Harry, Deaged!Snape, Deaging, New Identity!Harry
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Neglect, Romance/Het, Violence
Chapters: 7 - Completed: No - Updated: 16 Dec 2014 / 20 Aug 2013
Series: None - Challenges: None
Halloween in Miniature by Dream Painter starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 19]
"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
A Summer's Misadventures by Whitetail starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 121]
Sequel to Days We Learn From. Severus, Harry and Draco are starting to establish their new normal, when day to day life is changed drastically once more thanks to a slight mix up involving a few potion samples. All of this leaves Severus dealing with a new troublemaker, the one he used to be! De-aged to six years old, he's a handful and half to deal with, and his adopted sons, Harry and Draco, will never let him forget it!

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Loving
Tags: Child fic, Deaged!Snape, Deaging
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Reverse Roles > Parental Harry
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 14 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 25 Mar 2011 / 02 Feb 2011
Series: Days We Learn From - Challenges: None

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