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After a long summer of fighting to recover from a vampire bite, Harry has finally been cleared to attend school. Will he be able to keep his ailment hidden along with his true identity, or will it all come crashing down? Sequel to Searching for Wellness.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Creature!fic, New Identity!Harry, Physical Impairment, Slytherin!Harry, Vampire!Harry, Vampires
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Out of Character
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 Jan 2023 / 09 Oct 2021
Series: Aspects of Wellness - Challenges: None
“What— What are you doing?” To his credit, he manages to pull the child to a full stop by yanking him back, bringing him in closer to hold his shoulders again and glare at him in the eyes, no matter the way he winces at their familiar colour. “You are aware that you have just undergone a panic attack, are you not?”


There’s something in Potter’s eyes that seems to flash at that, but it’s gone within the moment. Severus files that away for later ruminations.


“I know,” he says matter-of-factly, like he’s just declared that the sky is blue.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Time Travel
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 7 - Completed: No - Updated: 29 Nov 2022 / 27 Jun 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
The year was 1988, and on one quiet Sunday morning in the early days of a blisteringly hot July, the Dursleys departed from Number Four Privet Drive. This, by itself, was of little consequence. They habitually went to church most Sunday mornings. Except... this time they simply didn't return.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Hospitalization
Categories: Big Brother Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Panic attack
Chapters: 4 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Nov 2022 / 28 Oct 2022
Series: Storm Surge - Challenges: None
Lily had an affair with Severus, and the son she bore as a result, was widely believed to be her husband's, not her childhood friend's. Now that Secret comes to light when a certain reporter finds a letter that never wound up getting sent.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Self-harm
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 25 Oct 2022 / 25 Oct 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry has definitely had the worst summer known to man, but it isn't over. A strange change of heart and an extra meal from the people who kept him captive is definitely not a good sign.

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, Kidnapped, Kidnapped!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Torture
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Oct 2022 / 20 Oct 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry's first year at Hogwarts is over and now that Severus is his guardian, he'll be going home with the professor for the summer and any previous misunderstandings regarding their relationship are long in the past.

Right?

***

in which Severus and Harry both must confront their own personal demons.

Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Sexual Abuse
Chapters: 5 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jul 2022 / 08 May 2022
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None

When a boy who’s broken and shattered inside, slips off the edge of the astronomy tower. Who will save him?

Or

A story about a sour Potions Master saving a boy’s life. And maybe realising he cares about said boy.



Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Eating Disorder, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jul 2022 / 04 Jul 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Ron goes to rescue Harry in second year, Harry never got Dudley’s second bedroom. He got something much worse.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Violence
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 15 Jun 2022 / 12 Jun 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
It was strange, to say the least, to see it in a child so young, suffering so much.

A child whom Severus and the majority of the wizarding world had thought to be a spoilt prince with a heart beating contemptibly.

Severus hated being wrong.

***

Harry Potter is sorted into Slytherin, which automatically makes his problems Severus' problems. Like, more so than usual. Severus, being the ridiculously responsible professor that he is, has an important discussion with the boy.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Addicted!Harry, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 27 May 2022 / 27 May 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Response to a challenge: Out of the darkness by Swamygliders. In his fourth year and after the events of the Triwizard Tournament, Harry stares down from the Astronomy Tower. An unlikely someone stops him from falling, and tells him he matters.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Depression Recovery
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Out of Character, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 May 2022 / 14 May 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None

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