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

Taking place directly after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry is trying to deal with his trauma from the course of the events of the war and struggles to confront it, along with trying to manage his grief. Snape survived but disappeared in shame and remorse after the battle. Harry finds him, and they both discover that they have more in common now more than ever - Both are struggling with their sense of self and purpose. But stray Death Eaters from the battle are re-grouping for a final stand to take out the great Harry Potter, and their traitor, and Harry and Snape must put aside their differences to end the fight once and for all, whilst dealing with Snapes' illness along the way. Explores darker themes of grief, self-blame, PTSD, depression, and suicidal ideation.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Depression Recovery, Injured!Snape
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits

In Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts, Dolores Umbridge, a Ministry of Magic representative, arrives as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Cruelly tormenting Harry as part of her campaign to control the narrative about Voldemort's return, Umbridge escalates her punishment to casting the Unforgivable Cruciatus Curse. Harry endures the brutal torture, hiding his pain and torment from his classmates and friends. However, his teacher, Professor McGonagall, notices his struggle and calls him for a private discussion.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

One wrong word and a murderer is born. Sealed away through seven generations, the fire of dragons awakens an inheritance and brings forth a tribrid in a frightened teen sentenced to death. Not just a tribrid, rare as it is, but a tribrid of two class 4 creatures and one class 5 creature, making him a danger to society, a danger that must be restrained for the good of the people. From this inheritance an ancient bond forms between the newly registered creature and a professor...a ministry worker...a curse that affects not only the creature but their descendants for eternity as well. Enter into a darker world of slavery as a boy once known as the savior finds truths that shatter his very existence, a world hidden beneath the earth and within the shadows were no light can be found. The mentor guides the shattered light into a destiny he is unprepared for while a bitter soul remains trapped in darkness though free unlike the chained being. Yet circumstances change the bitter soul and open his eyes to a world he heard mere tales about in youth...where redemption is nowhere to be found.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Cruel
Tags: Creature!fic, Injured!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Pregnancy, SuperPower! Harry, Vampire!Snape, Werewolf!Snape
Categories: Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry

Christmas Eve 1997. All is not well.
Harry Potter's successful capture by Nagini in Godric's Hollow prompts some divine intervention and leads to astonishing revelations.

One of quite a few Harry Potter fanfics inspired by Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol".

Takes Place: 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Kind
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Time Travel
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry