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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
When Harry is bitten by a werewolf in his third year, his life is turned upside down as he struggles to navigate a prejudiced world. Due to the threat he would be to his relatives, Severus Snape is assigned as his new guardian, and together, they both face fears neither were prepared for. A Sevitus story.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry, Werewolf!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Panic attack, Violence
Chapters: 22 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 Nov 2025 / 09 Jul 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Harry is a werewolf
When six-year-old Harry Potter finds floo powder while cleaning the fireplace, he is accidentally sent over to Severus's Snape's house, where he discovers that Snape is his biological dad, he has a half-sister, and Aunt Petunia has been abusing him all his life. It's almost too much for little Harry to handle. Can Severus help this boy through the traumas he's suffered?

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Godfather Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Out of Character
Chapters: 49 - Completed: No - Updated: 30 Oct 2025 / 23 Jan 2021
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
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
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Death, Drug use, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Oct 2025 / 19 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
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
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

Severus is a teacher in Harry's primary school in Little Whinging, and he sees what everyone else has been too blind to notice.
Inspired by the song Concrete Angel by Martina McBride. Happier ending.



Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 29 Mar 2025 / 29 Mar 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry is diagnosed with hyperthymesia, meaning he knows what happened to his parents and who sent him to the Dursleys, so he comes to Hogwarts to find clues to hidden valuable information.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: Ravenclaw!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Bashing
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 02 Feb 2025 / 02 Feb 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None

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