Potions and Snitches
Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

Tags: Abuse Recovery
 


Stories
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
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
Two of Hogwarts' most feared professors. Two figures Harry Potter has always despised. But what would happen if, one night, the castle's corridors forced him to confront them both? Set during the events of Order of the Phoenix. An intense one-shot, where the line between discipline, revenge, and protection blurs…and even the most hated teachers can hold surprises. Warning: Spanking

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Disciplines
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 26 Sep 2025 / 26 Sep 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
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
Harry met Holly when she was two - abandoned in the park by her mother. Unable to leave her alone, he stayed behind to keep her safe. Over the years, they became as inseparable as brother and sister.
When Harry found out he was a wizard, he was happy to find that Holly was a witch too, and one day, she would enter his new world with him.

Finding out he was a father to a nine-year-old girl, Severus Snape didn't hesitate to bring her home. His daughter belonged by his side, after all. Finding his daughter preferred Harry Potter over him was a travesty the Potions Master was not going to tolerate.

Somehow, Severus had to make his daughter see Harry Potter as he did - worthless, useless, hopeless.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Snape Comforts, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 39 - Completed: No - Updated: 07 Jul 2025 / 10 Aug 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
Abandoned at a run-down orphanage by the Dursleys, Harry struggles with fresh injuries and a growing sense of betrayal. Confronting a world of unfamiliar faces and hesitant kindness, he cautiously navigates the bustling corridors and guarded smiles of Little Haven Orphanage. With his pillowcase of scant belongings, Harry steps into a new chapter fraught with uncertainty.

Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 4 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 01 Jun 2025 / 13 Dec 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Orphanage
A prophecy is only real when allowed to occur naturally, so when a series of unexpected events happen in the summer before 5th year, a second prophecy long lost deep in the Ministry of Magic awakens, telling of rare magic and an incredible bond to be forged between the most unlikely people. This magic and bond will be the end of the Dark Lord.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry
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, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 65 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 07 Apr 2025 / 11 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None

Snape sits across from him, all long limbs and complete lack of what he used to be. Harry swallows and watches his pale palms, a healthier tan than they used to be. They don't look wide enough to strike well. Harry doesn't know if that makes a difference.

 

Or: Harry and Snape reconcile



Takes Place: 9 - Post Epilogue (middle aged Harry) - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Colleague Snape and Harry
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Eating Disorder
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 02 Mar 2025 / 02 Mar 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None

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