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

Third year brings new troubles to Hogwarts, but none more than Harry Potter with the breakout the Dark Lord's right hand man, Sirius Black. Determined to finish what his master failed, Harry is sent back to the Dursleys where he can be safe within the blood wards and not allowed to visit the Weasleys at all nor contact his friends. To make sure of this, Hedwig is forbidden from being taken back to the Dursleys, yet after Sirius is sighted near Privet Drive, Professor Snape is forced to take control of Harry as an apprentice. However, when Snape arrives at Privet Drive, he discovers that Potter is missing. Is it Black that kidnapped him? Is it someone or something else more sinister? Harry is found in an unlikely place and taken away, forbidden from contact with his friends as he is thrust into the role of apprentice. Yet amidst these troubles, Harry discovers something about himself and a hidden crime that only a murderer and his best friends know, something that may change Harry's future for the better...or the worse.

Takes Place: 3rd Year, 4th summer, 4th Year, 5th summer, 5th Year, 6th summer, 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Addicted!Harry, Animagus!Harry, Creature!fic, Dragons, Elf!Harry, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Kidnapped, Kidnapped!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Resorting, Sibling Addition
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Master Snape > Apprentice Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest

Harry went through the worst thing a kid his age possibly could. In a desperate attempt to escape, he runs home to the Dursleys, and swears off magic. Instead, he learns to live as a normal boy. Unfortunately for him, a certain professor has other plans.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Runaway, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Snape finds Harry in the halls, high out of his mind. Snape could have immediately turned the boy in for suspension, but he didn't. He actually cared about the boy's recovery.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Addicted!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

Harry has to serve his detention with Snape at the crack of dawn, not fully aware of what disaster he's about to stumble into.

*Edited and touched up!

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Canon Snape, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Mean, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape