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Rather than allowing Harry to stay at Diagon Alley after he blew up Aunt Marge, the Ministry sends Harry back to the Dursleys. Harry returns to school after a terrible summer, to find that he's not the only one with this kind of secret. A student has been killed by his family. New screening measures are put into place by the Ministry: Every student must be given a medical exam and interview to look for child abuse. With Dumbledore facing an inquiry, Snape is entrusted with the task of making sure EVERYONE receives one.
Takes Place: 3rd Year
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Before Harry arrives at Hogwarts, the faculty have a meeting and decide that Harry will need a mentor to help him adjust, keep him out of trouble, and make protecting him easier. They decide that this person should the Head of the House into which Harry is sorted, presumably Minerva McGonagall. But things, of course, don't turn out as planned, and Harry is harder to deal with than anyone expected. Nobody asked him if he wanted a mentor, after all... NOTE: This story has a prologue. It is not necessary to the plot of the story, but if you wish to read it, it is called(predictably enough) 'Prologue to Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat'
Takes Place: 1st Year
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Sequel to The Choices We Made. With Voldemort dead and Harry's cancer settling life should be returning to normal for Harry and Snape but things aren't always as they seem. Instead they find themselves challenged in new ways. When dangerous events start after Harry's return to Hogwarts can Snape figure out what's going on before they're torn apart again? HPSS mentor Healing/Coping
Takes Place: 7th summer, 7th Year
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Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Azkaban Character, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
With a strange potion, new location and the odd Muggle Studies Professor along for the ride, Harry's in for an interesting summer, but why is Snape here? Dumbledore had better pray he gets all three back in one piece! Humor, Angst, No Mary Sues, No Romance, no real plot.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Child fic, Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 32
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Completed: No
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Updated: 17 Jul 2016 / 15 Jan 2005
Series: None
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Challenges: None
When Harry finds an injured Snape on his doorstep and must hide him from the Dursleys, he has no idea that this very, very bad day will be the start of something good. Harry and Snape are thrown together by annoying relatives, a series of strange dreams, and Voldemort's latest hunt for Harry, but their greatest challenge may well be surviving each other. This will be a long summer unless the two can find a way to work together. A slow-burn enemy-to-mentor story. Alternate 6th summer (and part of the school year): post-OotP; ignores HBP and DH.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Severus Snape is a complicated man, but when it comes to protecting Harry Potter's life, there is nothing more simple than succeeding. When Severus finds himself caring for the boy after an attack, how will their relationship change? Snape-Harry mentor fic.
Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year, 7th summer
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Adoption, Animagus!Snape, Kidnapped, Pregnancy, Sibling Addition, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Death, Neglect, Out of Character, Profanity, Rape, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 62
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Completed: Yes
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Updated: 09 Feb 2016 / 23 Jun 2009
Series: None
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Challenges: None
Left with partial paralysis after being tortured by Voldemort, Severus is sent to Bell Point, a secure location on the seaside owned by the Order of the Phoenix. However, he is not the only one who will be there, for Harry, refusing to express his emotions regarding Sirius’ death, has unknowingly invoked an ancient kind of magic that will force him to deal with them. Deaged to four years old, he has to contend with a bitter and broken Snape, who, like Harry, is being forced to live in a body that does not work the way it used to. These two vastly different people have beat the odds many times over, and somehow prevailed in a world that has tried time and time again to destroy them. But the challenges they now face are nothing like they’ve ever seen before. Will they rise to the occasion, or become prisoners within themselves?
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Deaging, Physical Impairment, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Torture
Chapters: 28
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Completed: Yes
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Updated: 19 Jul 2013 / 11 Jan 2013
Series: None
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Challenges: None
By third year, Harry was starting to think he knew his own identity. Then, the discovery of an old secret threatens to throw his world into turmoil, yet again. Nor is he the only one who finds his life affected... Who is he, anyway?
Takes Place: 3rd Year
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Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Physical Impairment, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Alcohol Use, Neglect, Profanity
Chapters: 39
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Completed: Yes
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Updated: 14 Sep 2015 / 04 Mar 2010
Series: None
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Challenges: None
At Lily's request, Albus Dumbledore has kept a secret from Severus Snape for 17 years. When Dumbledore learns that this secret plays a vital role in the war, however, it is Snape who is left to deal with the consequences. As Harry's true parentage is revealed, both his and Snape's futures become uncertain. The two must learn to work together in order to survive. PreHBP.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Alcohol Use, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 58
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Completed: No
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Updated: 10 Oct 2015 / 28 Jun 2005
Series: None
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Challenges: None
One unlucky hit with a strange spell. That's all it took to alter the course of Harry's life - and everyone else's life around him. Bound to stay within ten feet of each other, Harry Potter and Severus Snape have to learn to get along or die trying. But sometimes in the hardest of times, one can learn things never imagined possible. After all, the past doesn't define the future.
Takes Place: 5th Year
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Set at the end of third year. Severus overhears Harry by chance on his final patrol before the summer and begins to suspect that the Gryffindor's home life isn't as idyllic as he assumed. Twelve years ago, he made a promise to protect him, and he intends to keep it.
Takes Place: 3rd Year, 4th summer
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 37
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Completed: Yes
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Updated: 11 Nov 2023 / 08 Mar 2014
Series: Coming Home
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Challenges: None
Harry receives a very special gift on his 16th birthday that leads him to the help he needs...Snape is finding respite from his growing pressures and discovers one in need of help. Despite himself, he finds he CAN grow close to another living being. Only..."everything would've been so much simpler if it'd actually been a cat"...
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Creature!fic, Kidnapped, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
AU. Harry, on the night the first letter came, was dumped by the Dursley's in London. Now, three months later, he is found and expected to lead a normal life at Hogwarts. But, where Harry Potter is concerned, can anything be normal? Mild abuse, neglect.
Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Alcohol Use
Chapters: 35
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Completed: No
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Updated: 28 Jan 2007 / 21 Sep 2006
Series: None
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Challenges: None
Amidst misconceptions and reconciliation, the lines that separate the Wizarding World will be destroyed. Enemies will serve one another as friendships are tested and forged. But first, the Sorting Hat Who Will Not Sort has a message for Hogwarts... Warnings: some OOC (with reason). Definite and unabashed alternate universe, here: takes place from the beginning of sixth year. Snape and Harry interaction doesn't start until chapter 4.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 52
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Completed: Yes
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Updated: 20 Feb 2007 / 20 Sep 2006
Series: None
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Challenges: None
COMPLETE. Harry and Hermione go to a prestigious summer school, where Snape is a teacher. Unfortunately for Harry, Snape has spoken to the other staff and is on his way to turning the whole school against Harry.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Canon Snape, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
After Harry is caught for exploding a cauldron in 2nd year Potions, Snape insists he keep a firm hand on the boy he must secretly protect. However, he discoveres that there is more to the twelve year old than unruliness and disrespect. Similarly, Harry learns from and gains a new perspective of his professor.
Takes Place: 2nd Year
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Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
After mistakenly flooing himself to Snape's home the summer after Sirius' death, Harry realizes that his potions master can take matters into his own hands, literally. Warning: This story does involve the spanking of teenagers. If you have a problem with this, do not read and do not review. Any criticisms about CP will be ignored. But I love any other feedback!
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
When Vernon discovers Harry can't do magic during his first summer back from Hogwarts, he loses it when the cake falls on his clients. Completely AU version of the Severitus challenge beginning during the summer after first year.
Takes Place: 2nd summer
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Harry Potter is located in London in the dead of night. How exactly did he end up there, and what has he been doing? Well, any kid with half a brain knows not to talk to strangers.
Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Harry Potter has many discoveries to make in his sixth year - some good, some bad. As his view of the world changes, he finds himself making unlikely allies in unexpected places.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K
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Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 49
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Completed: Yes
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Updated: 13 Jun 2004 / 09 Jul 2003
Series: None
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Challenges: None
James Potter was not the great Gryffindor everyone claimed he was. Terrible secrets and evil deeds plagued his mind, his soul. In order to rid himself of these, he erased his memories, keeping them only in a small leather Journal where he revealed the entire terrible truth. This was locked deep inside a Gringotts vault with the hope of locking them away forever. His secrets are ready to seep out of the old, faded pages, changing people’s lives forever. All lies must end... "I was lied to about James Potter; a liar, a cheater, a thief. I was lied to about Lily Potter; her family, her past. Worst of all I was lied to about Harry Potter, for no such boy existed."-Horris
Takes Place: 5th summer
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Detention turns into disaster as Snape, Hermione, Draco, Harry and Ron are tossed 96 years into their past. Canon up to PoA, AU after. Enemies become friends united in a quest to return home. Harry discovers family in the most unlikely of wizards.
Takes Place: 2nd summer
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Time Travel
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 91
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Completed: Yes
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Updated: 30 Mar 2011 / 30 Mar 2011
Series: None
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Challenges: None
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