Potions and Snitches
Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

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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
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Character Bashing, Neglect, Romance/Slash
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 20 Jun 2024 / 14 Dec 2020
Series: None - Challenges: Taken From Slytherin
Voldemort comes back into his power well before Harry starts at Hogwarts, and brings with him quite significant changes.
Join Harry as he starts Hogwarts and navigates a new world. Snape is just trying to do his job.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Disciplines , Snape is Angry, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Hufflepuff!Harry, Kidnapped
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Violence
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 May 2024 / 03 Sep 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry is struggling after the death of Sirius. While stomping around Grimmauld, he stumbles across a mysterious artefact that answers the question, 'What If?'

Wasn't written as a response to the challenge Mirror, Mirror, but fits nicely with it nonetheless.

Takes Place: None - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: None
Chapters: 26 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 May 2024 / 14 Jun 2023
Series: None - Challenges: Mirror, Mirror
“You’ll find that the health of Hogwarts students is in fact my business.”

Harry forced a chuckle. “You don’t care. So you don’t get to demand anything.”

Summary: The first week back after summer break, scrubbing a cauldron makes Harry's damaged arm worse: Snape finds out about the Dursley abuse.

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Cruel
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 Apr 2024 / 23 Apr 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Snape overhears a conversation between the Golden Trio minutes before potions class, information about Harry Potter's home life is brought to light. Can Snape and Harry overcome their differences for the sake of healing and Harry having some semblance of a positive mentor/father figure in his life?

*I do not own these characters or Harry Potter!*

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Healer Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 16 Apr 2024 / 15 Apr 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry blows up Aunt Marge, Dumbledore decides he can't be left to his own devices in Diagon Alley for the whole of August and sends him to stay with the only person available - one highly displeased Severus Snape. Harry, for his part, doesn't think this summer could get any worse. After all, what could be more unpleasant than living with Professor Snape?

Finding out that Draco Malfoy is also staying at Spinner’s End, of course.

None of them know how they'll survive a month in each others' company, but they might just come out the other side with something they all need the most: a family.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Cranky
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Sibling Addition
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Panic attack, Profanity
Chapters: 45 - Completed: No - Updated: 14 Apr 2024 / 29 Mar 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Summer after fifth year: Why did everything bad happen to Harry Potter? Why did it always have to be Severus who picked up the pieces? And why did the kid in Severus’ neighbourhood had to be such a Hufflepuff?

Interrupted in his well-earned summer holidays of tending to his vegetable garden and just reading a lot of sciene fiction, Severus Snape is sent to track down one runaway Harry Potter.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean, Snape's a Bully
Tags: Adoption, Runaway
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 26 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 Mar 2024 / 26 Mar 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Set at the start of book five. The ever-busy Dumbledore is a little delayed in sending that howler to Petunia, and so when Vernon insists that Harry needs to leave the house as he's clearly a danger to the family, Harry is packed and down the road with no protest, causing the blood wards to break. The Dursleys instantly become a vulnerable target for Death Eaters, and Harry himself is snatched by a Death Eater, but it's Severus Snape and this is coming from a Severitus writer so you've likely already figured out where all of this is going.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Panic attack, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 11 - Completed: No - Updated: 22 Feb 2024 / 31 Jul 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Coauthored by Esyrnrose and Sleeper102 - both of whom can be found on AO3.

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde

What if Harry forgives Snape for all the hurt? How would Snape react to this? Snape has, after all, spent so much of his time wallowing in bitterness. Being forgiven is not something he expected. But what if Harry enjoys the reactions forgiving his enemies brings? What if he starts a trend?

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Angry, Snape is Cranky
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death, Out of Character
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Jan 2024 / 28 Jan 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry loses something of great value. He doesn't lose it. It is taken. It is not lost. It has been stolen.

Snape has got something to do with it.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Alternate Universe, Depression Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Eating Disorder, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Out of Character, Physical Abuse, Violence
Chapters: 2 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Jan 2024 / 10 Dec 2023
Series: None - Challenges: Harry's Journal

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