After the Battle, the only thing that Harry wants to do is rest, but he notices that there is something that he needs to do first: bring Snape's body back to Hogwarts. Ron and Hermione will be there to help him, while they deal with the effects of the war and learn to find hope where there seemed to be none. Once they find out that certain Potions Master is not as dead as they thought he was, things will start to change. (Snape!Lives)

Takes Place: 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean
Tags: Depression Recovery, Injured!Snape
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Misc > Strictly Canon Universe, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Harry's sixth year ends with the Dark Lord's takeover. Harry gets to live - but why? After a gruelling summer, he struggles with sneaky attacks at Hogwarts and his power over Dark Marks. He realises the truth, and the Order tries to free him from the horcrux - but fails. Harry feels as if he is slowly slipping away… but help arrives from an unlikely source: Snape.

~Gen, plotty AU: a slow-burn, realistic mentorship between Harry and Snape (will become the focus) and Harry and Voldemort

Takes Place: 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Book Snape, Canon Snape, Snape is Mean, Snape's a Bully
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Uncle Vernon’s acting weird, and Snape has designs on making Harry the most obedient student Hogwarts has ever seen. Harry just wants a quiet summer to himself and to earn the money he needs for his school supplies, but he could only hope for something so simple. Entry into the Bingo Card Fic Fest.  NOW COMPLETE.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hospitalization, Injured!Snape, Runaway, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Master Snape > Apprentice Harry, Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

Ten streets burned before the wizarding world ever noticed the Boy Who Lived was missing. At seven years old, Harry Potter survived a gas explosion that tore through Little Whinging, leveling houses and leaving the suburb a smoking ruin. Pulled from the wreckage and covered in burns, he was not found by rescuers, but by a Romanian werewolf. The creature regarded Harry not as prey, but with a strange, keen interest—something kinship-like in its hunger. While the magical world celebrated the legend, Harry vanished from history, left to crawl through ash and shadow, alone and unprotected. Time passed in the wilderness, shaping him into someone neither child nor hero. By the time he resurfaced, he was no longer the boy they had once promised to protect.

Years passed before the Ministry found him — half-starved, feral, and living among Fenrir Greyback’s pack deep in the wilderness. The child they recovered was no hero, only a werewolf bound by scars and fear. To protect their image and the fragile myth of “The Boy Who Lived,” officials buried the truth beneath paperwork and propaganda. Harry was cleaned up, handed a wand, and sent to Hogwarts as though nothing had ever happened. But the frightened, silver-eyed boy who stepped off the train was a shadow of the savior they expected. He bore burns that refused to fade and eyes that never seemed fully human. In a world that worships symbols, Harry became a living contradiction: their symbol of hope now marked by monstrosity.
He did not stay long. Within months, Harry disappeared from Hogwarts grounds without a trace, slipping into the wilderness once more. Rumors spread — that the curse had consumed him, that the Boy Who Lived was truly dead at last. Two years later, he returned, changed beyond recognition. No longer merely a wolf, he bore the chill mark of another curse — a vampire’s bite, turning him into a creature neither alive nor dead, neither beast nor man. Now a vaewolf, Harry walks the line between predator and victim, caught in a war between instincts and humanity. But he is not alone in the shadows: Sirius Black, now a Death Eater, has learned of Harry’s survival. The godfather who once loved him has become a predator, hunting him to exploit his monstrous power and serve Voldemort’s rising schemes. Every step back into civilization is a risk, every return to Hogwarts a dangerous gamble against a hunter who knows him too well — and will not hesitate to kill.

Under Severus Snape’s reluctant guardianship, Harry must relearn what it means to live among people — to be student, not monster. Forced to repeat his first year, he sits among children two years younger, haunted by memories they could never understand. Every hallway whispers with his name, every candle flame flickers against his scars. Hogwarts itself feels different now, a place of watching eyes and half-truths. Yet as old enemies stir and ancient bloodlines begin to wake, the darkness within Harry calls for recognition. Somewhere between moon and ash, hunger and heart, he must decide what he truly is: human, beast, or the bridge between both.

The Boy Who Lived didn’t die — he just stopped being human.

Takes Place: 1st Year, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hufflepuff!Harry, Resorting, SuperPower! Harry, Vampire!Harry, Vampire!Snape, Vampires, Werewolf!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

At seven, Harry still reached for Severus’s hand in crowds.
At eight, he stopped.
At nine, he apologized when he did it by mistake.

In the summer of 1987, Severus rescued him from the Dursleys and brought him to Cokeworth—a small, dying town outside Liverpool. While Harry comes of age during a brewing war, he struggles to become—and understand what it means to be—a man. As the world tries to make him a saviour, Severus fights to hold on to the seven year old boy who afforded him a second chance at life.

Told in alternating perspectives, this is a story of growing up and of grieving the person someone used to be.

There is a very ordinary love that holds you together as the world falls apart. Salvation is a person.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year, 3rd summer, 3rd Year, 4th summer, 4th Year, 5th summer, 5th Year, 6th summer, 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape