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Before Hogwarts, before the fame, Harry was just a boy in a cupboard—searching for strength in silence, knowledge in shadows, and safety where no one looked. When the Sorting Hat says “Slytherin,” Harry begins rewriting his fate.



Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 Jul 2025 / 19 Jul 2025
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: 46 - Completed: No - Updated: 14 Jul 2025 / 23 Jan 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
Severus pauses, gauging his surroundings with his senses, not yet reaching for his wand. The boy is near, he can hear the slight hitch of breath, can almost see the shape near the water-swollen stream. The rain continues and the trees appear as inky skeletal things before him, dripping and shining in the moonlight that wavers in and out of dark clouds.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: Runaway
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Jul 2025 / 11 Jul 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
After the death of the Dursleys before Harry’s eighth birthday, it’s suddenly up to Severus Snape to take care of him. Temporarily, of course. Until a better guardian can be found. Severitis (non-biological). NO corporal punishment. AU, but follows canon knowledge of the Dursleys.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 19 - Completed: No - Updated: 22 Jun 2025 / 28 Jul 2024
Series: None - 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: 46 - Completed: No - Updated: 21 Jun 2025 / 22 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway
Harry is dragged along for trick-or-treating to collect double the amount of candy for Dudley. After being dropped off in an unfamiliar neighborhood, Harry is tricked by Dudley and his friends to go to the Forbidden House on the Corner, a supposedly haunted house inhabited by a child-eating vampire.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: None
Categories: Fic Fests > CozyFest 2023, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 8 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 May 2025 / 18 Sep 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

Severus is a teacher in Harry's primary school in Little Whinging, and he sees what everyone else has been too blind to notice.
Inspired by the song Concrete Angel by Martina McBride. Happier ending.



Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 29 Mar 2025 / 29 Mar 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
How far would you go to protect the ones you love? How much of yourself would you be willing to sacrifice? How much would you deny yourself to ensure their safety?

Severus Snape knows exactly how far he would go, and there was still no turning back. Not until his mission was truly finished. James Potter and Lily Evans were the center of Severus’ world. If losing them both on the same night wasn't devastating enough, the realization that the Dark Lord wasn't dead continued to eat at his spirit. The Dark Lord would return, forcing Severus to play his part once again.

It’s been eleven years since the Dark Lord disappeared, and much to Severus' chagrin, Harry Potter has finally come to Hogwarts. Nothing would prepare Severus for pushing the last thing he had left of James and Lily away. As Severus struggles to face his mistakes, a young Draco Malfoy falls victim to a similar fate. For the love of his best friend, Narcissa Malfoy, Severus is driven to help Draco navigate the dark legacy that has been forced upon him.

As the Dark Lord rises again, Severus will do anything to ensure Harry and Draco's survival, even if it means burying his heart deeper to do it.

Takes Place: 0 - Before Harry is born, 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year, 3rd summer, 3rd Year, 4th summer, 4th Year, 5th summer, 5th Year, 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Secretive
Tags: None
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Bullying, Character Bashing, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 25 May 2024 / 25 May 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
During a Christmas sleepover, Harry and his friends watch a scary Dracula movie without Severus’s permission. After a string of circumstantial evidence, Harry and the others become convinced that Severus is a vampire.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 01 Jan 2024 / 01 Jan 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None

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