After little Harry Potter runs away from his relatives’ home for the sixth time, Albus decides something drastic must happen. Instead of sending a friendly witch from family services like he had done before, he sends Severus Snape in hopes of scaring the boy into staying put. But when a blizzard interferes with plans, Severus learns why Harry keeps running away and a change of plans ensues.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Severus Snape was perfectly happy with his life. Sure, working for the Dark Lord was horrific, his home was a hovel, and his personal relationships non-existent. Yes, he definitely was happy. That is, he was, until an unexpected visit from an alternate universe self turned everything on it's head. Surely there was no universe in which he had adopted Harry Potter?

Harry Potter finds the family he always longed for. Sometimes salvation comes from the strangest places.

Challenge: "Mirror Mirror." Canon Snape comes face to face with a version of himself from another universe. A universe where he raised Harry Potter.

Takes Place: 4th summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

It’s Halloween night, and the year is 1981. Severus Snape is distraught over Lily’s death, and goes to wallow in his misery in a lead-colored river near his house in Spinner’s End. While cursing at the world and everything around him, he stumbles upon a worn cradle that constants a peculiar baby with the last name Potter.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Angry, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Addicted!Snape, Adoption, Baby fic, Deaged!Harry, Deaged!Snape
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

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

Harry met Holly when she was two - abandoned in the park by her mother. Unable to leave her alone, he stayed behind to keep her safe. Over the years, they became as inseparable as brother and sister.
When Harry found out he was a wizard, he was happy to find that Holly was a witch too, and one day, she would enter his new world with him.

Finding out he was a father to a nine-year-old girl, Severus Snape didn't hesitate to bring her home. His daughter belonged by his side, after all. Finding his daughter preferred Harry Potter over him was a travesty the Potions Master was not going to tolerate.

Somehow, Severus had to make his daughter see Harry Potter as he did - worthless, useless, hopeless.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Snape Comforts, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry