Potions and Snitches
Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

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Severus pauses, gauging his surroundings with his senses, not yet reaching for his wand. The boy is near, he can hear the slight hitch of breath, can almost see the shape near the water-swollen stream. The rain continues and the trees appear as inky skeletal things before him, dripping and shining in the moonlight that wavers in and out of dark clouds.

Harry runs away and Snape is sent to find him.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: Runaway
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 Jul 2025 / 12 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry and Snape are back at Hogwarts, but things are different. Snape is back to being the harsh professor in class and the turnaround when they're in private is giving Harry whiplash. Also, this new "High Inquisitor" seems to have it out for the both of them. Together, the two of them will learn to navigate a new world at war.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Cranky, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Sassy
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 35 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 07 Jul 2025 / 11 Sep 2024
Series: It Takes a Village - Challenges: None
The Battle of Hogwarts is over, and the dust begins to settle. The trio are haunted and not just from the battle. Harry wants to do something about that, something that Hermione doesn’t agree with at all.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Time Travel
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Rated: T - Warnings: Out of Character
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 29 Jun 2025 / 24 May 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
“The Ministry takes a vested interest in ensuring our young witches and wizards are as safe as we can make them and you, dear boy, are very important to Minister Fudge.” Professor Umbridge said, simpering in a self-satisfied way as she said Fudge’s name. “So I must ask you where you’ve been this last August?”

Harry coughed into his tea and nearly spilled it over himself.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Deaged!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 May 2025 / 19 Feb 2021
Series: Namesake Necklace - 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
Rated: T - 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
Severus Snape is given redemption in a form he least expected — or wanted. When a letter with the power to change everything comes to light, Severus finds himself wondering if destiny is earned and whether or not it can be returned.

His daughter learns the answer over the course of seven years.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe, Girl!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Bullying, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 29 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Apr 2025 / 24 Apr 2020
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry is diagnosed with hyperthymesia, meaning he knows what happened to his parents and who sent him to the Dursleys, so he comes to Hogwarts to find clues to hidden valuable information.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: Ravenclaw!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Bashing
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 02 Feb 2025 / 02 Feb 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None

Jamie Potter had to be a mirror of her father, which is why instead of pressing Snape for answers like a normal person, she had to go about it in the most annoying way possible. She needed them- to stop her world from turning on it's axis. Will she like what she hears? Will bad blood continue to corrupt Snape's perception of her?



Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Mean
Tags: Girl!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 6 - Completed: No - Updated: 14 Jan 2025 / 22 Oct 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None

This year, the Snape family faces numerous challenges, including wedding planning, avoiding a terrible teacher, and the growing threat of the death eaters and their elusive leader. Additionally, they must care for a young witch who desperately craves love and attention. Do they have what it takes? Can they overcome these obstacles, especially with Albus Dumbledore keeping secrets?



Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Sibling Addition
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 32 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 26 Dec 2024 / 24 Jun 2023
Series: Wishing on the Winds - Challenges: None
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
Rated: T - Warnings: Torture, Violence
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 25 Aug 2024 / 05 Aug 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None

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