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

After Hogwarts closes due to the petrifications on students and an illness sweeping through Hogwarts, the students are sent home in groups and Professor Snape is entrusted by Albus to take Harry home personally. On Christmas Eve, Snape is surprised to see Potter singing Christmas Carols underneath his window in Spinner's End and brings the child inside with the intention of questioning the child and then taking him home, not realizing he was left in Cokeworth by his horrid relatives.

With a letter from the head of the Prince family demanding he come to the Christmas celebrations with his child, Severus decides to pass Harry off as his son in favor of not turning the child over to social services or the Ministry due to his lack of a home. Harry, with no place to go and not wanting to return to the Dursleys agrees to the crazy plan. Can this Christmas be a new beginning for both a man regretting his life choices and child who desires to belong to someone? And how will Harry fare among a pureblood family and in a new school out of his comfort zone? Can the Christmas season make miracles themselves happen?

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving
Tags: Child fic, Creature!fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Fic Fests > Winter fest 2021

Coming of age in a declining northern borough wouldn’t be easy for any eight-year-old boy. For reasons that defied logic, being named ‘Harry Potter’ only seemed to complicate matters. Second in the Storm Surge Series. Sequel to Grease & Lightning. HP&SS friend/mentor/Severitus-style fic. No slash.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Child fic, Kidnapped!Harry, Sibling Addition
Categories: Big Brother Snape

Harry gets lost in the forest. Will Severus find him before it's too late?

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Stepfather Snape

After James Potter suffers an accident, Severus finds himself saddled with a sassy ten-year-old for an evening while Lily tends to her husband. It goes...better than he expected, actually.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: Child fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape