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

Severus Snape, Potions Master of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, assumed he was going to have a relaxing summer, but that all changes when an upset Lily visits him in his dream needing his help to save her son.

Reluctantly Severus checks on Harry, discovering that all is not what it seems.

Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Injured!Harry, Kidnapped!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Two runaways, one fleeing from his awful relatives and this deep ache inside his chest. The other one? What is he running away from?
Who is this strange muggle boy and what has he got to do with Harry Potter?
Will they both pull through?
And what does Severus Snape actually do during the summer holidays?

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean
Tags: Adoption, Runaway
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

When Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, Harry spots something intriguing in Gringotts.

Or, my take on the 'Gringotts to the rescue' trope.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

He decided to stop reminding the teachers that he didn’t have any parents to make presents for, too. Instead, he did the projects as he was told, writing Happy Christmas, Happy Mother’s Day, Happy Father’s Day, and signing empty “I love you’s” to people who did not exist for him. He decided not to throw them away like Aunt Petunia had done with his either, and instead saved them like she had with Dudley’s presents. He kept them under the mattress on the cot in his cupboard like he did with all other things that were precious to him, which really didn’t amount to much.

Harry often wondered what it would be like to have a parent who treasured his handmade gifts like Aunt Petunia did with Dudley, a parent who didn’t see his presence as a nuisance. Maybe that’s why he kept these things, for the hope that someday, maybe, he’d have someone he could give them to. Someone who would treat them as a keepsake, someone who would treat him like something of value.

Maybe someday.

Takes Place: 3rd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape