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Icy rain washed down over Severus’s head and shoulders, but the sensation was nothing to the chill that snaked its way down his back. The dog stood on its hind legs, forepaws braced against the gate, its teeth bared in a silent snarl a mere hand’s breadth from Severus’s throat. This close, the intelligence in its eyes was no longer deniable. For one sharp, treacherous instant, Severus froze, wondering what, exactly, was standing in front of him.
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Sent to investigate the failing wards at Number Four Privet Drive after his least favorite student turns his aunt into a helium balloon, Severus Snape finds himself saddled with a horrifically abused thirteen-year-old boy and an infuriatingly clever Omen of Death that sheds on the sofa. With a werewolf at the staff table, dementors encircling the school, and a crazed mass-murderer on the loose, Severus is surprised to find that he does not mind the entanglement as much as he would have expected.
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Nella Rose Potter, the Girl Who Lived.
Under the stairs at the moment, though not for long. She's about to receive a letter that will make things a whole lot worse before they get better.
***“I am not in the habit of returning house points once they have been lost, Miss Potter. Among us little people at least, choices have consequences. If that’s all —”
“It’s not that, sir,” she hastened to explain, surprising him once more. Most students were only too eager to latch onto anything that resembled a dismissal from his presence, and no one — ever — interrupted him. “I-I understand. I just… I live with my aunt and uncle, you see. They’re muggles.”
Snape didn’t answer, but the girl plowed doggedly on.
“Well, th-there was an a-accident at the end of the summer, sir. S-some of my potions ingredients spilled in my trunk, and I didn’t know w-what to do... M-my relatives thought I might get help at school?”
She swallowed hard, then reached into her bag and pulled out a horror of a textbook. The entire mold-stained cover slid off as she moved to set it on his desk, and a handful of ragged pages scattered as the book block landed on his desk with a damp thud.
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- Part 1 of Nella Potter
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The Defense Against the Dark Arts position at Hogwarts is cursed. After years spent mitigating the damage, Headmaster Severus Snape knows this better than most. So when the Board of Governors insists on hiring the world’s most famous Quidditch star to take the post, he is less than enthusiastic.
When Harry Potter finally arrives — entitled, impulsive, and masking an injury that may spell disaster all on its own — Severus must reconcile his worst fears with a startling truth: Harry may be exactly the teacher the school needs.
A post-Quidditch career AU in which fame, survival, and grudging respect collide, and the line between headache and hero is surprisingly thin.
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A Proper Use of Influence by Samayla for AChickenAndADinosaur
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Dec 2025
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Severus Snape is perfectly capable of ruining his own holidays. His family intervenes.
This story is set in the “Embers to a Flame” universe written by AChickenAndADinosaur on
AO3, and features their OC, Taneen Shafiq.Written for the 2025 Secret Snape Exchange on Discord.
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A collection of short Severitus scenes inspired by Inkyarcturus's "Severitus Inktober" prompt list on tumblr.
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Lemon Meringue AU by Samayla
Fandom The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Apr 2020
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Care Fic Requests - for when life is a lot by Samayla
Fandom Stargate SG-1, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
31 Jan 2021
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Tasked with learning Occlumency from the last person he trusts, Harry Potter enters his fifth year braced for humiliation and failure while war rages inside his mind. Instead, an uneasy alliance is formed, one that neither student nor professor is prepared for.
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28 Apr 2026
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Harry Potter died at the gates of Hogwarts after a month of brutal torture. Severus Snape watched him fall. The Order saw the body. The world is in mourning.
However, in the Twilight between life and death, Harry made a choice. To save his father from a grief that would destroy him, and to ensure the safety of his his friends and family from Voldemort, Harry returns to cage the scattered fragments of the Dark Lord’s soul.
He returns not as the Boy Who Lived, but as an injured transfer student from Durmstrang with a tremor in his hands and a darkness in his magical core. Hidden behind a glamour and a lie, he must walk the halls of the school he died to save, forced to witness the devastating aftermath of his own sacrifice.(Summary will be updated as we go along.)
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- Part 1 of Things Outstanding
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02 Apr 2026
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Severus begrudgingly goes to Privet Drive to find Harry after he is caught outside the blood wards. What he finds changes things forever.
Your average pre-3rd year severitus fic. Wanted to try my hand at it (I am hungry for severitus fanfiction, and therefore must write my own)
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15 Mar 2026
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Harry Potter is being ignored by everyone who’s supposed to care, takes a fall off a ladder and wakes up in a hospital. With nowhere left to go and a deep mistrust of adult intervention, he escapes to London for a night where things, naturally, get worse. He’s got no plan, a bruised skull, and a wand he’s not allowed to use. What he does get is Severus Snape, pressed into reluctant babysitter duty by Dumbledore himself.
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- Part 1 of Timshel (Thou Mayest)
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07 Feb 2026
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On the Subject of Survival: A Necessary Proximity by ardentlyfond
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Feb 2026
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When a series of decisions forces Severus Snape into closer proximity with Harry Potter than intended, he finds himself walking a familiar line between duty and choice.
Set against a year of enforced guardianship, a murderer at large, and encroaching Dementors on Hogwarts, certain lines begin to blur between the Potion Master and his most hated student.
Hogwarts teaches many things.
Not all of them are taught in classrooms.
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23 Jan 2026