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While the wizarding world struggles with the return of Voldemort, Harry struggles with the death of Sirius and his own out of control magic. His summer before 6th year is unlike any other as he trains alongside the Order, grows close to Severus Snape, of all people, and learns of an unfathomable fate assigned to one Draco Malfoy, a fate he is determined to stop. As the world falls apart, it seems Harry's life may finally come together.

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Animagus!Harry, Depression Recovery
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, Physical Abuse, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 27 - Completed: No - Updated: 06 Oct 2025 / 11 Nov 2023
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
What if Umbridge had a way to make Harry pay? His future at Hogwarts is in serious jeopardy, and with Dumbledore unable to help, there’s little hope left. This story is full of twists, with enemies becoming allies, new friendships forming, and people finally seeing things from a new perspective. Warning: abusive Dursleys.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 23 - Completed: No - Updated: 06 Sep 2025 / 09 Nov 2024
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
Harry has a little sister named Max. When Harry is fitting in, Max seemed to be struggling. The Slytherin seemed to loath the Potters. Under such hostility, will Snape help her or make it even worse. What is Snape's relationship with this famous sibling? And what is Max's power that the dark lord knows not?

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Angry, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Cranky, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Evil, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern, Snape's a Bully
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Violence
Chapters: 17 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 Aug 2025 / 20 Jun 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Severus Snape was perfectly happy with his life. Sure, working for the Dark Lord was horrific, his home was a hovel, and his personal relationships non-existent. Yes, he definitely was happy. That is, he was, until an unexpected visit from an alternate universe self turned everything on it's head. Surely there was no universe in which he had adopted Harry Potter?

Harry Potter finds the family he always longed for. Sometimes salvation comes from the strangest places.

Challenge: "Mirror Mirror." Canon Snape comes face to face with a version of himself from another universe. A universe where he raised Harry Potter.

Takes Place: 4th summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 17 - Completed: No - Updated: 06 Aug 2025 / 12 Apr 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None

Before Hogwarts, before the fame, Harry was just a boy in a cupboard—searching for strength in silence, knowledge in shadows, and safety where no one looked. When the Sorting Hat says “Slytherin,” Harry begins rewriting his fate.



Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 20 Jul 2025 / 19 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Severus pauses, gauging his surroundings with his senses, not yet reaching for his wand. The boy is near, he can hear the slight hitch of breath, can almost see the shape near the water-swollen stream. The rain continues and the trees appear as inky skeletal things before him, dripping and shining in the moonlight that wavers in and out of dark clouds.

Harry runs away and Snape is sent to find him.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: Runaway
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 Jul 2025 / 12 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Severus Snape, Potions Master of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, assumed he was going to have a relaxing summer, but that all changes when an upset Lily visits him in his dream needing his help to save her son.

Reluctantly Severus checks on Harry, discovering that all is not what it seems.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Injured!Harry, Kidnapped!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Rape
Chapters: 18 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Jul 2025 / 30 Aug 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None

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