After the tragic death of Sirius Black, Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts tormented by grief, anger, and loneliness. No one seems to realize how close he is to the edge. One evening, while serving yet another detention under his hated Potions professor, he finds himself embroiled in a confrontation with Draco Malfoy that culminates in a dark and ancient spell.
The result? A mysterious curse that binds him irreversibly to Severus Snape.
Forced to live together, Harry and Snape must confront not only the magic that binds them, but also the ghosts of the past, their emotional scars, and their mutual prejudices. A journey through suffering, pride, and—perhaps—understanding.
A vividly drawn Severus, faithful to the original character, where emotional evolution takes center stage.
Takes Place: 6th Year
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Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Angry, Snape is Controlling
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Deaging
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 6th Year
Stories
Rated: K
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Warnings: Physical Punishment Non-Spanking
Chapters: 18 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Dec 2025 / 16 Aug 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 18 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Dec 2025 / 16 Aug 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
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
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+
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Warnings: Character Death, Out of Character, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 01 Dec 2025 / 25 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 01 Dec 2025 / 25 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry's sixth year ends with the Dark Lord's takeover. Harry gets to live - but why? After a gruelling summer, he struggles with sneaky attacks at Hogwarts and his power over Dark Marks. He realises the truth, and the Order tries to free him from the horcrux - but fails. Harry feels as if he is slowly slipping away… but help arrives from an unlikely source: Snape.
~Gen, plotty AU: a slow-burn, realistic mentorship between Harry and Snape (will become the focus) and Harry and Voldemort
Takes Place: 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Book Snape, Canon Snape, Snape is Mean, Snape's a Bully
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
~Gen, plotty AU: a slow-burn, realistic mentorship between Harry and Snape (will become the focus) and Harry and Voldemort
Takes Place: 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Book Snape, Canon Snape, Snape is Mean, Snape's a Bully
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 14 - Completed: No - Updated: 26 Nov 2025 / 19 Nov 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 14 - Completed: No - Updated: 26 Nov 2025 / 19 Nov 2025
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
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+
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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
Chapters: 6 - Completed: No - Updated: 28 Oct 2025 / 25 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
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+
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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
Chapters: 27 - Completed: No - Updated: 06 Oct 2025 / 11 Nov 2023
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
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+
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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
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Oct 2025 / 19 Aug 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry gets ill, Snape makes an impulsive decision that will change both their lives. Under Snape’s guidance and tutelage, Harry will flourish and become as clever and cunning as a snake with the strength and heart of a lion. A Snape mentors Harry story. SEQUEL to Draught of Asphodel. Not slash. Set between 5th and 6th year. More notes inside.
Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Stern, Snape Spanks
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Stern, Snape Spanks
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Bashing, Eating Disorder, Neglect, Panic attack, Physical Punishment Spanking, Profanity
Chapters: 6 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 May 2025 / 19 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 6 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 May 2025 / 19 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
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
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Drug use, Neglect, Panic attack, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 21 Dec 2024 / 14 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: Aesop's Fable, Taken, Bathtime, Another School, Stolen , Other wizarding cultures
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 21 Dec 2024 / 14 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: Aesop's Fable, Taken, Bathtime, Another School, Stolen , Other wizarding cultures
In the summer before Harry's 6th year Aunt Petunia gives him a hat box. She refuses to answer his questions, instead telling him to ask Severus Snape. Harry starts his sixth year on a search for answers to the contents of the hat box and the question of who he really is. Severitus. Answer to prompt: Severitus Photo Twist by mariah
Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Kidnapped
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Kidnapped
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
In his sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter is summoned to the Headmaster's office, frustrated and overwhelmed. As he leaves the office, he's consumed by thoughts of Dumbledore's cryptic messages. Confronted with revelations about his connection to Voldemort, Harry grapples with fear, anger, and the burden of his destiny. In his darkest moments, he is found and offered some solace.
Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 01 Jul 2024 / 01 Jul 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 01 Jul 2024 / 01 Jul 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None