In a little house beside a river, two people share a pot of coffee as the sun slowly rises. One of them has seen what it would mean to lose everything. The other has felt the joy of getting it all back. Both are learning what it means to be human. The final installment in this five-part series.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: Book Snape, Rickman Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Cranky, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Sassy
Tags: Healing, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rating: K+
Stories
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 01 Dec 2025 / 23 Sep 2025
Series: It Takes a Village - Challenges: None
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 01 Dec 2025 / 23 Sep 2025
Series: It Takes a Village - Challenges: None
Severus Snape hates Harry Potter. Nothing will ever change that. Nothing. Not even the boy’s sudden intrusion in his life. Or that cheeky smile. Or that all too innocent look. Or the sudden shift in his relationship with the Potter whelp. Not even those green eyes. No, nothing will ever change Severus’s hatred for Harry Potter – no matter how fond of him he was becoming. An eventual Snape adopts Harry story. Beginning in Harry’s first year.
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 52 - Completed: No - Updated: 10 Nov 2025 / 10 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 52 - Completed: No - Updated: 10 Nov 2025 / 10 Oct 2017
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
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
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
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 47 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Aug 2025 / 23 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway
Chapters: 47 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Aug 2025 / 23 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway
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
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
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 17 - Completed: No - Updated: 06 Aug 2025 / 12 Apr 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 17 - Completed: No - Updated: 06 Aug 2025 / 12 Apr 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
After Hogwarts closes due to the petrifications on students and an illness sweeping through Hogwarts, the students are sent home in groups and Professor Snape is entrusted by Albus to take Harry home personally. On Christmas Eve, Snape is surprised to see Potter singing Christmas Carols underneath his window in Spinner's End and brings the child inside with the intention of questioning the child and then taking him home, not realizing he was left in Cokeworth by his horrid relatives.
With a letter from the head of the Prince family demanding he come to the Christmas celebrations with his child, Severus decides to pass Harry off as his son in favor of not turning the child over to social services or the Ministry due to his lack of a home. Harry, with no place to go and not wanting to return to the Dursleys agrees to the crazy plan. Can this Christmas be a new beginning for both a man regretting his life choices and child who desires to belong to someone? And how will Harry fare among a pureblood family and in a new school out of his comfort zone? Can the Christmas season make miracles themselves happen?
Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving
Tags: Child fic, Creature!fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Fic Fests > Winter fest 2021
With a letter from the head of the Prince family demanding he come to the Christmas celebrations with his child, Severus decides to pass Harry off as his son in favor of not turning the child over to social services or the Ministry due to his lack of a home. Harry, with no place to go and not wanting to return to the Dursleys agrees to the crazy plan. Can this Christmas be a new beginning for both a man regretting his life choices and child who desires to belong to someone? And how will Harry fare among a pureblood family and in a new school out of his comfort zone? Can the Christmas season make miracles themselves happen?
Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving
Tags: Child fic, Creature!fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Fic Fests > Winter fest 2021
Rated: K+
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 Jul 2025 / 31 Jan 2022
Series: None - Challenges: Another School, Just Pretending (For Christmas), Christmas Carols
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 Jul 2025 / 31 Jan 2022
Series: None - Challenges: Another School, Just Pretending (For Christmas), Christmas Carols
During the disastrous Occlumency lesson, Snape launches a jar at Harry, trying to frighten him out of the room. It hits.
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry
Tags: Amnesia, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry
Tags: Amnesia, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Physical Abuse, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Jul 2025 / 03 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: Snape Didn't Miss
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Jul 2025 / 03 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: Snape Didn't Miss
What if the Dementors' attack in Little Whinging had turned out differently? What if Harry had been trapped in his mind, unable to escape?
Good to have a friend, even an imaginary friend - right?
Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: Alternate Universe, Child fic, Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape
Good to have a friend, even an imaginary friend - right?
Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: Alternate Universe, Child fic, Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 25 Jun 2025 / 25 Jun 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 25 Jun 2025 / 25 Jun 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
After the death of the Dursleys before Harry’s eighth birthday, it’s suddenly up to Severus Snape to take care of him. Temporarily, of course. Until a better guardian can be found. Severitis (non-biological). NO corporal punishment. AU, but follows canon knowledge of the Dursleys.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 19 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 Jun 2025 / 28 Jul 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 19 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 Jun 2025 / 28 Jul 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Six months into their unlikely guardianship, Harry surprises Snape with breakfast on his birthday. A quiet morning, a shared meal, and the kind of warmth neither expected to find in the dungeons.
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Sassy
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Sassy
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 May 2025 / 20 May 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 May 2025 / 20 May 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None