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

But the Slytherins didn't treat him like a freak. They didn’t make him do their cooking or cleaning because the house-elves did all that. They didn’t smack him around if he didn’t do their homework for them because they didn’t ask him to do their homework. Harry wondered if maybe he was settling into the Slytherins too fast, but he dismissed the thought with a smile. For the first time in a really long time, Harry realized, he was happy.

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No one had been shocked when Harry Potter- boy-who-lived, savior of the wizarding world - was sorted into Slytherin house more than Severus Snape. And no one, bar maybe the boy himself, had been more enraged when Harry Potter was taken out of the dungeons and placed high in Gryffindor tower than Severus Snape, either. Which meant that it would be up to one Severus Snape to bring his snake back to where he belonged, Dumbledore's plan be damned.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Evil!Albus, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Harry gets tired of the abuse he faces with the Dursleys, Dumbledore telling him to tough it out, and now his best mates have gotten together and won't spare him a backwards glance. He tells Voldemort the Prophecy, And offers a new regime.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Azkaban Character, Azkaban!Harry, Evil!Harry, Injured!Snape, New Identity!Harry, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Colleague Snape and Harry

Being sorted into Slytherin must have been a mistake. How could it have been anything else? Harry Potter MUST be a Gryffindor. He has to be! Why would the Sorting Hat put him anywhere else? It must me a mistake. Surely the Headmaster can fix this!

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Injured!Harry, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

To the world Harry Potter is either a deranged freak or a celebrated hero, but the truth about Harry and the secret the child carries is about to turn the world upside down - not only Harry's but Snape's as well!

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Depressed, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Girl!Harry, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape