Potions and Snitches
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The Battle of the Department of Mysteries has marked the start of war. The wizarding world is going into hiding to escape the deadly threat of Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Harry, Ron, and Hermione must go into hiding with Professor Snape where they remain as their world is ripped apart, at least until they understand the task Dumbledore has left for them. Growing close in their isolation, they will leave their safe haven and embark on a hunt that could end it all. They can only hope that they'll survive it.

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Sassy, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Character Death, Out of Character, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 01 Dec 2025 / 25 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Sirius is finally free, and Harry is looking forward to having a real family who cares. But then everything falls apart. Can Severus Snape figure out what happened to Harry and the secret he is hiding? Harry and Severus are thrown together due to an impulsive action by Sirius Black. This story is a response to the prompt "Disowned" by Nightshade sydneylover150.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Mean
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Spying!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Panic attack, Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 29 - Completed: No - Updated: 30 Nov 2025 / 24 Aug 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Disowned
In a potions lessons shortly after the third task, Malfoy bullies Harry too far and Snape intervenes.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Book Snape, Canon Snape, Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Stern
Tags: None
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Bullying
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Nov 2025 / 14 Nov 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Starting a new adventure, Harry learns there's more to life than what he's seen.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Godfather Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Out of Character, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 31 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Nov 2025 / 12 Jul 2020
Series: None - Challenges: None
After Dementors attack Harry and Dudley, Vernon decides he's had enough of magic and enough of Harry. Nearly killed by his uncle, Harry unconsciously uses magic to call for help and is subsequently expelled from Hogwarts. Ending up in the care of Severus Snape, Harry finds himself brought on the professor's dangerous summer travels where they learn about Voldemort's past, Harry discovers he has an incredible rare magic, and they get to really know each other, so much so that Harry returns to Hogwarts as Snape's apprentice. With such a change in their relationship, the year at Hogwarts becomes an exercise in trust.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Sassy, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Out of Character, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 03 Nov 2025 / 29 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry finds himself locked in a room that seems to be trying to kill him by Dumbledore, he knows he has to escape. Luckily, he gets help, but is brought to the one person he never would've thought to go to: Severus Snape. Under the man's protection, Harry will learn that his life has been a manipulated lie, there is a prophecy from Death himself-who likes to be called Nex?-Voldemort may be a better option, and he has a father who actually loves him. It's time for the Master of Death to step out of the shadows.

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Sassy, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Evil!Albus, Evil!Harry, Evil!Snape
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Character Death, Out of Character, Panic attack, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 6 - Completed: No - Updated: 28 Oct 2025 / 25 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
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
Harry Potter is involved in a potions accident which ends up with him de-aging to a foetus and implanting in the womb of Severus Snape, who is a bearer. Severus can no longer spy, to the chagrin of Albus Dumbledore, but he uses it as an opportunity to show his true self, the person he has been forced to hide for over twenty years.

And maybe, just maybe, he can save his students from the pressures of war.

Mentions of physical, emotional and sexual abuse that various characters are trying to heal from. Many characters being bashed.

I don't own Harry Potter.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Baby fic, Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Mpreg, Pregnancy, Sibling Addition
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Emotional Abuse, Out of Character, Physical Abuse, Rape, Romance/Slash
Chapters: 12 - Completed: No - Updated: 10 Sep 2025 / 06 Aug 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry is looking at another summer with his relatives - full of chores, ridicule, and 'Harry hunting'. But then, Dumbledore requests his help, and as always with the headmaster, there is a catch. The young Gryffindor suddenly finds himself at Spinner's End caught in an unexpected situation.

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Amnesia, Disguised!Harry, Incognito!Harry, Injured!Snape
Categories: Reverse Roles > Healer Harry
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Out of Character
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 16 Aug 2025 / 13 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
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
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 47 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Aug 2025 / 23 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway

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