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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
 


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What if Umbridge had a way to make Harry pay? His future at Hogwarts is in serious jeopardy, and with Dumbledore unable to help, there’s little hope left. This story is full of twists, with enemies becoming allies, new friendships forming, and people finally seeing things from a new perspective. Warning: abusive Dursleys.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 20 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Jun 2025 / 09 Nov 2024
Series: None - 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: 44 - Completed: No - Updated: 09 Jun 2025 / 23 Jan 2021
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: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Jun 2025 / 24 Aug 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Disowned

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?

Or:

Harry Potter finds the family he always longed for. Sometimes salvation comes from the strangest places.

Challenge: " Mirror Mirror" Cannon 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+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 13 - Completed: No - Updated: 07 Jun 2025 / 11 Apr 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
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: 4 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 31 May 2025 / 12 Dec 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Orphanage
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
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 49 - Completed: No - Updated: 27 May 2025 / 09 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
“The Ministry takes a vested interest in ensuring our young witches and wizards are as safe as we can make them and you, dear boy, are very important to Minister Fudge.” Professor Umbridge said, simpering in a self-satisfied way as she said Fudge’s name. “So I must ask you where you’ve been this last August?”

Harry coughed into his tea and nearly spilled it over himself.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Deaged!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 May 2025 / 18 Feb 2021
Series: Namesake Necklace - 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
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 45 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 May 2025 / 22 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway
While the wizarding world struggles with the return of Voldemort, Harry struggles with the death of Sirius and his own out of control magic. His summer before 6th year is unlike any other as he trains alongside the Order, grows close to Severus Snape, of all people, and learns of an unfathomable fate assigned to one Draco Malfoy, a fate he is determined to stop. As the world falls apart, it seems Harry's life may finally come together.

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Animagus!Harry, Depression Recovery
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, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 25 - Completed: No - Updated: 02 May 2025 / 11 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Coming of age in a declining northern borough wouldn’t be easy for any eight-year-old boy. For reasons that defied logic, being named ‘Harry Potter’ only seemed to complicate matters. Second in the Storm Surge Series. Sequel to Grease & Lightning. HP&SS friend/mentor/Severitus-style fic. No slash.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Child fic, Kidnapped!Harry, Sibling Addition
Categories: Big Brother Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Profanity, Romance/Het, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 71 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 15 Apr 2025 / 27 Feb 2024
Series: Storm Surge - Challenges: None

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