Potions and Snitches
Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

Genres: Hurt/Comfort
 


Stories
Abandoned at a run-down orphanage by the Dursleys, Harry struggles with fresh injuries and a growing sense of betrayal. Confronting a world of unfamiliar faces and hesitant kindness, he cautiously navigates the bustling corridors and guarded smiles of Little Haven Orphanage. With his pillowcase of scant belongings, Harry steps into a new chapter fraught with uncertainty.

Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Dec 2024 / 13 Dec 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Orphanage
This year, the Snape family faces numerous challenges, including wedding planning, avoiding a terrible teacher, and the growing threat of the death eaters and their elusive leader. Additionally, they must care for a young witch who desperately craves love and attention. Do they have what it takes? Can they overcome these obstacles, especially with Albus Dumbledore keeping secrets?

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Sibling Addition
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 30 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Dec 2024 / 24 Jun 2023
Series: Wishing on the Winds - Challenges: None
When six-year-old Harry Potter finds floo powder while cleaning the fireplace, he is accidentally sent over to Severus's Snape's house, where he discovers that Snape is his biological dad, he has a half-sister, and Aunt Petunia has been abusing him all his life. It's almost too much for little Harry to handle. Can Severus help this boy through the traumas he's suffered?

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Godfather Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Out of Character
Chapters: 36 - Completed: No - Updated: 09 Dec 2024 / 23 Jan 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
The discovery of Harry Potter's private journal exposes a life Severus Snape never imagined. As each entry reveals painful truths about Harry's isolation and suffering, Snape must confront his own assumptions. With the clock ticking, he is forced to step beyond his role as a professor to intervene, knowing that saving Harry may challenge everything he believes about the boy.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Addicted!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Dec 2024 / 03 Dec 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Harry's Journal
A prophecy is only real when allowed to occur naturally, so when a series of unexpected events happen in the summer before 5th year, a second prophecy long lost deep in the Ministry of Magic awakens, telling of rare magic and an incredible bond to be forged between the most unlikely people. This magic and bond will be the end of the Dark Lord.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 60 - Completed: No - Updated: 30 Nov 2024 / 11 Nov 2023
Series: None - 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 is Angry, Snape Comforts, 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+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 43 - Completed: No - Updated: 26 Nov 2024 / 10 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Sirius is finally free, and Harry is looking forward to having a real family who cares. But then everything falls apart. Can Severus Snape figure out what happened to Harry and the secret he is hiding? Harry and Severus are thrown together due to an impulsive action by Sirius Black. This story is a response to the prompt "Disowned" by Nightshade sydneylover150.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Mean
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Spying!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Panic attack, Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 13 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 Nov 2024 / 24 Aug 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Disowned
After surviving the Triwizard Tournament, Harry is dragged to a Ministry interrogation chamber instead of safety. Stripped of his wand, bound to a chair, and surrounded by hostile officials, he must defend himself against accusations and their relentless pursuit of the truth, no matter the cost.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Torture
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 21 Nov 2024 / 21 Nov 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Veritaserum
When Harry is bitten by a werewolf in his third year, his life is turned upside down as he struggles to navigate a prejudiced world. Due to the threat he would be to his relatives, Severus Snape is assigned as his new guardian, and together, they both face fears neither were prepared for. A Sevitus story.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry, Werewolf!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Panic attack, Violence
Chapters: 10 - Completed: No - Updated: 17 Nov 2024 / 09 Jul 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Harry is a werewolf
A winter night brings Harry back to a familiar, snow-covered graveyard and a Hogwarts he thought he'd left behind. Old mentors and unspoken words tug him toward a choice he isn’t ready to make. As he sits in the snow he faces memories long buried, he finds himself questioning where he truly belongs—and if he can shape a future from the past he’s tried to leave behind.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Nov 2024 / 11 Nov 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None

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