What if Severus Snape adopted Harry Potter between his first year and the summer before his third year which upsets Remus Lupin. 

Remus arrives as DADA teacher and is immediately jealous because he has struggled as a werewolf and lived in poverty while Severus, a marked Death Eater pre turning spy has succeeded as the youngest head of house and Potions Master. Severus has a good relationship with Harry, further fueling Remus's resentment. 

Haunted by memories of the Marauders and coping with his struggles, Remus drinks too much and takes his frustrations out on Harry.

**Extra points if Sirius is the reasonable one and Regulus Black is somehow.

Change the 'p' in Snape to 'v', and write it backwards - you get Evans. Write a fic involving this.

I want to see what all you can conjure up from this. Let your brain - or heart, depending on what you write with - run wild!

(Bonus if Harry is the one to realise this. :D)

After Cedric's death that marked Voldemort's return, Ministry's propaganda, the Daily Prophet's lies and Umbridge's...sweet pink presence - Harry's fifth year was, to say the least, loaded. Oh, and it was also the O.W.L. year. Hectic.

At one of the 'unofficial' staff meetings - where all teachers except the Defence professor are present - the issue comes up of how Mr. Potter was faring under the pressure. It is decided that the four Heads of Houses and Dumbledore will follow Harry invisibly throughout his day to gain an in-depth understanding of Harry's mental and emotional state. It can even be two days, or three, if you want, but not more than that.

Must have :

- Detention with Umbridge and blood quills must not be illegal or Dark Magic - simply a non threatening device which is used uniquely to inflict pain. (If you want, they can be the standard method for signing all ministry contracts, for example.)

- A D.A. session.

- In-character Snape, good Dumbledore. And a resilient Harry who's coping with the help of his wonderful friends Ron and Hermione.

Options to explore :

- Skeeter's interview

- Maybe the trio goes to the Chamber of Secrets to read Slytherin's stuff or to the RoR for some self-defense practice?

- You can also add to Umbridge's detentions, just so long as it's something nobody can actually do something about. Grimace and curse the toad, certainly, but no action that can be taken.

Let your imagination run wild - make up all sorts of activities for Harry and his friends (they can't be punished for the stuff professors see them doing while spying, after all!) and have fun writing!

Severus Snape has been severely mistreated at many points of his life, causing his mind to fracture. His sense of self is separated into several parts:

Severus [host] a socially inept individual with autistic and obsessive-compulsive tendencies surrounding dark and defensive magic whose best friend growing up was Lily Evans. Severus is the one Dumbledore thinks is teaching his students, Dumbledore trusts since his knowledge of dark arts but without the desire to actually harm anyone makes him invaluable.

Toby, age 5 a personality that developed to protect Toby from the lonliness and sadness of Spinner's End, who loves life and holds all his positive memories. Toby, however, isn’t really all that developed since Severus wouldn’t have had many positive memories and hadn’t met Lily yet – mostly attaches himself to Asphodel and thinks Harry would be a ‘cool older brother.’

Asphodel, 21 a personality that diverged from Severus because of the grief and despair on October 31st 1981. Asphodel is the character that protects Harry throughout the series, is sarcastic and quick witted but caring and instinctually protective.

Professor Snape, age 50, a personality developed to protect him from but is also most like Tobias Snape. Professor Snape is an extremely intelligent equally vicious (ex-)terrorist and potions master. He is who is actually doing the teaching since he gets called 'Professor Snape' or 'Sir' during class. Professor Snape is the character that hates Harry and who is cruel to him.

Suggested plot:

When Dumbledore asks Severus to check on Harry during the Summer, Aunt Petunia’s disdain and Uncle Vernon’s temper trigger Asphodel into protecting Harry. She orders Harry to pack his things, and apparate him to her safe house. Her job done and everything calm, Severus contacts Dumbledore who gives him temporary guardianship for the summer.

Severus tries his best, but he struggles to look after himself let alone a 14-year-old. Luckily, Harry knows how to cook but strangely doesn’t mind cooking for Severus. Severus talks about Lily Evans, a girl who he grew up with who had eyes like Harry’s and Harry learnt a lot about his mother. Severus is happy that Harry isn’t calling him weird of a freak, so Severus continues to mentor Harry. Severus teaches Harry about defensive magic and how to dispel dark curses.

When Harry mentions that he has never been to the cinema and could he please go for his birthday, Asphodel gets oddly protective and takes him, though Harry has to take over protecting Toby who decides he just has to see The Little Mermaid. Harry confronts Severus about who Asphodel and Toby are, causing Severus to have a meltdown since he doesn’t like Harry’s confrontational voice and unanswerable questions – leaving Harry to go to Dumbledore to ask what was going on.

Dumbledore manages to calm the three of them, and explains to Harry about the alters, that he did a good job looking after Toby and getting him. Dumbledore warns him about the ‘Snape’ personality, the side who is a blood purist and wouldn’t hesitate to hurt him – which doesn’t add up for Harry because that’s Professor Snape’s personality unlike Severus’. Dumbledore blanches and wonders what was going on, worrying that he’s not being paying enough attention to his teachers, then sends Madame Pomphrey to assess the situation.

Dumbledore decides to move Severus into teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts in an attempt to temper the ‘Professor Snape’ personality, suggesting that Severus use his mother’s maiden name Prince. Dumbledore makes the decision that ‘Severus/Professor Snape’ should not go back to spying duties during the next war since he realised that triggering that personality was doing more harm that he realised.

Professor Prince is a half-decent professor, even if he’s not as fun as Professor Lupin. The Defence Curse (Riddle wasn’t completely mad then, the curse decreed that there would be an annual turnover until someone as qualified as him showed up) deems that Professor Prince is a suitable professor and allows him to continue teaching.

Severus applies for magical guardianship from Dumbledore, and thus Harry is given permission to stay under the protection of Hogwarts throughout the Summers.

“Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.”

- Deathly Hallows

Tom, Severus and Harry died that day on May 2nd 1998. All three end up having the same grim reaper who explains that much of their life has been orchestrated by the headmaster Albus Dumbledore so that he can claim the Merlin Peverell seat - for the ‘greater good,’ of course. Merlin Peverell had extraordinary magic and the ability to wield dark, neutral and light magic with ease as such had a special role in the wixenaught. He had three sons and divided his estate between the three magic types. The three brothers also created the invisibility cloak (light magic, Harry,) the elder wand (neutral magic, Severus) and the resurrection stone (dark magic, Tom.) Only when the three brothers sit on the Merlin seat will balance be restored to magical Britain. Unfortunately, Albus Dumbledore decided to use his position as headmaster to drive harsh divides between the types of magic and has allowed the orphanage or abandonment of the three boys so that no magic can live whilst only one survives. Lady magic places the three boys in a purgatory classroom where they learn from her grandniece Deþ (death) about their family history and intertwined fates. Then, Tom, Severus and Harry need to decide when they're going back and what they're going to do about the problems they've uncovered. 

Notes

Regarding the timeline, Deþ can either:

•  (1) send them back to May 2nd 1998 to reshape the magical world
• (2) send each back to their own birth time to reshape their world as they grow up with new knowledge

Regarding relationships

• No romantic/sexual pairings between any or all of the three
• Any ‘relationship’ for them to be considered (very distant) cousins or (pseudo-) brothers or grand/parent/child.
• Nothing beyond PG-13 and no relationship age gap greater than: (=half age + 7 years)
• Relationships do not need to be as cannon 
• Abuse of Tom/Severus/Harry by their guardians really doesn’t need to be exaggerated – it’s bad enough as it is in cannon.

Regarding Cannon Plot Issues 

• Why is there a civil WAR if all children go through the same school where teachers could use this time to promote conversation as opposed to cursing/violence? It’s almost as if someone wants all these problems … 

Regarding Plot variances

End Goals

'There is no good or evil, only power and those who use it’ – adapted Philosopher’s Stone 

• The Boys and the wider wizarding world learn about Dumbledore’s machinations
• In this world, Severus can Speak the Ancient and Noble Language of Serpents (*insert preening Snake*) 
• Tom has his soul, body and magic ‘put back together’ and as such is capable of rational thought (happens in the ‘purgatory room’)
• End goal is for them to be politically diverse but otherwise work well together aka no torture or murder (looking at you, Tom.)
• End goal is for them to diversify the student population and types of classes offered at Hogwarts
• Generally improving the culture of tolerance at Hogwarts and thus the whole magical Britian
• A ‘scientific’ explanation for the difference in dark, neutral and light magic 

Little Things 

• There may be another ‘prophecy’ regarding the three boys who will seek to challenge Dumbledore which drives his actions
• If (timeline (2)) Severus doesn't become a teacher, and admits in the purgatory chamber how bad he was at teaching 
• I’d love to see a magical primary school so that muggleborns are brought into the magical world sooner, and a boarding highschool for squibs & non-magical muggleborn siblings so they’re not left out
• I'd love to see muggleborns finding they're related to long-lost squib ancestors - hence the inclusion of non-magical muggleborn siblings 
• Neville may have been the one to kill the Dark Lord Tom Marvolo Riddle after Harry dies
• Their afterlife purgatory room may appear as Hogwarts
• Tom may change his last name to Gaunt, Severus may change his last name to Prince
• They may all be descended from Slytherin but may claim one of the others: Tom - Hufflepuff, Severus - Ravenclaw and Harry - Gryffindor
• Harry may get a pet snake (his ability to Speak is directly from Slytherin – not the horcrux)
• Lots of sneaky snarky Slytherin talk from Severus 
• (Especially (timeline (1)) Pureblood culture should be more similar to Pagan/Wiccan culture  
• The only titles Harry may claim (timeline (1)): Potter, Black, Gryffindor, plus 1/3 of the Merlin seat.
• I’ve always perceived Severus’ love for Lily more like a sister rather than romantic
• If (timeline (1)) Winky and Kreature may have an elfling to call her Dobbie 
• If (timeline (2)) Petunia may have a magical child to call him Aster Black, which is both means flower & star (w/ one of the Black brothers) 
• If (timeline (2)) Severus may have a child to call her Asphodel Eileen Snape with her namesake Lily Evans/Potter becoming her godmother, 

Have fun!