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It is a year after Voldemort's final defeat, and Severus Snape has found peace in his life. His quiet existence is disrupted when he receives an unexpected bequest. Truths that he has held for years are shattered and he learns that the Boy Who Lived is his son. Severus must learn to cope with that truth, and he must find and protect his son before it's too late for both of them.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Oct 2006 / 11 Apr 2006
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry finds an injured Snape on his doorstep and must hide him from the Dursleys, he has no idea that this very, very bad day will be the start of something good.

Harry and Snape are thrown together by annoying relatives, a series of strange dreams, and Voldemort's latest hunt for Harry, but their greatest challenge may well be surviving each other. This will be a long summer unless the two can find a way to work together. A slow-burn enemy-to-mentor story.

Alternate 6th summer (and part of the school year): post-OotP; ignores HBP and DH.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 61 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 08 Mar 2021 / 30 Apr 2007
Series: None - Challenges: Battered Snape for Breakfast
If one thing was for certain, it was that Harry knew what it was like to be taken advantage of.

Whether or not he was capable of seeing the signs of it remained to be seen.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Sexual Abuse
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jul 2023 / 04 Jul 2023
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None
Harry finds out his parents kept a lot of secrets from each other...involving a certain Severus Snape. AU.

Takes Place: 7th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Nov 2011 / 03 Nov 2011
Series: None - Challenges: None
It was the summer of love . . . er, no, not really. Left waiting for the Dursleys, Harry is found by the last person he'd expect to see. Written for the Summer Fic Fest 2015.

Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > #18 Summer 2015
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 29 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Jul 2019 / 24 Jul 2015
Series: None - Challenges: Bonding Experience, Abandoned
Seven months after the Battle of Hogwarts, the wards protecting the school still have not been restored to their former strength.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Colleague Snape and Harry, Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019 > Round Three
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Dec 2019 / 17 Dec 2019
Series: None - Challenges: None
When 11 year old Harry Potter arrives at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there is something very familiar about the dour Potions Master sitting at the teacher's table. Where has Harry seen him before, and what does it mean?

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 30 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 26 May 2022 / 27 Nov 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry is found guilty at the Ministry trial following the dementor incident, drastic measures must be taken to ensure his continued safety and freedom.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Disguised!Harry, Disguised!Snape
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 35 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 Sep 2023 / 23 May 2023
Series: It Takes a Village - Challenges: None
Turns out, the Dursley's weren't too happy with Harry for blowing up Aunt Marge. Harry finds himself on the streets of Muggle London.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Incognito!Harry, Runaway
Categories: Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 29 May 2023 / 29 May 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Uncle Vernon’s acting weird, and Snape has designs on making Harry the most obedient student Hogwarts has ever seen. Harry just wants a quiet summer to himself and to earn the money he needs for his school supplies, but he could only hope for something so simple. Entry into the Bingo Card Fic Fest.  NOW COMPLETE.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hospitalization, Injured!Snape, Runaway, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Master Snape > Apprentice Harry, Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Violence
Chapters: 29 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 17 Nov 2025 / 05 Nov 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None

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