Series Summary: Harry is found guilty at the Ministry trial for underage magic before fifth year, and is forced to go into hiding. Dumbledore assigns Snape the task of protecting the Boy-Who-Lived. The two of them find themselves in a small village on the coast, where they will learn about both themselves and each other.

Series Summary: It all began with a too-quiet Sunday morning, and within the week evolved into a hair-raising chase from Cumbria back to Surrey.rnrnHarry Potter certainly never bargained for a relocation at the tender age of eight, nor to find himself under the custodianship of a curmudgeonly twenty-eight-year-old rock aficionado named Severus Snape. rnrnLess parent than partner in crime, Snape at times seems as likely to tacitly encourage Harry's mischief as he is to take him to task over it. Perhaps, at that, a father-figure isn't in the cards...rnrnPerhaps, just perhaps, Harry would be better served by a brother.