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Life has never been easy for Severus Snape and it's about to get even worse. His relationship with Dumbledore is going from bad to worse, Harry's bent on revenge, Draco's turning from a spoiled brat to outright evil, and an old friend Severus hoped never to see again is going to be the new DADA professor.

Katie Bell is dying. Professor Snape is called upon to save her from a curse that has no cure. Where lies the boundary between Dark and Light Magic, and do the ends justify the means? An extrapolation from HBP.

The war with Voldemort is over. The good guys won. Now Harry has to face his oldest enemy and has to make the most difficult decisions.

Severus Snape is denied the Defence Against Dark Arts position yet again and finds himself in the company of a face from his past.

Snape has just thrown Harry out of his office, after catching him nosing into Snape's past. (OotP, chapter 28) Snape now has to put back these three terrible memories into his own head and relive these three events that have played a major part in shaping him into the man that he has ultimately become. This is a story of love and loyalty, friendship and betrayal, and death and desperation.

A tattered black veil stands before them. Remus Lupin needs to travel to the other side to save his past, but the journey comes at a price. It is a price that Severus Snape must be willing to pay. SS/RL

After an uneventful summer Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, dreading his sixth year. Voldemort is still at large and the Order of the Phoenix is broken by betrayal and distrust. In these dark times trust might be a valuable thing to those who never knew it, and love might be the key to freedom. It is up to some to make a difference... before it is too late...

At the Halloween feast Snape remembered his long-lost love: Lily. My interpretation for “Snape's worst memory” (OotP).

It's a full moon and Remus has assumed his form as a blood-thirsty werewolf. What has he done? What will he do? Was it all real?

The final battle has come, leaving Draco Malfoy in the middle. What will he chose to do? Sequel to I Just Keep Running and Bitter Tears Come From The Fallen.

From the lines on his palm to the tips of his fingers, Severus Snape’s hands are etched with memories of Albus Dumbledore.

Two men sit on a hillside and watch the sunrise. SS/RL

An Auror finds out what lies beneath Snape's icy exterior. My entry for the Potion Master's Muse challenge: So Many Buttons, So Little Time.

Somehow, two pranksters' actions can cause the ties of friendship to loosen, and the love of a certain female to change from a good friend to an arrogant toerag.

"The waiting ended, as it had begun, on a balmy summer evening—it was hours after dark, and he was standing on the Quidditch Pitch while pandemonium reigned in the grandstands." While Harry Potter duels the Dark Lord in an abandoned graveyard, others are left to speculate. Missing moment from GoF.

After Professor Severus Snape finds Harry reliving his worst memory and subsequently kicking him out of his office, he reflects on why this particular invasion of privacy bothers him so much. Basically an exploration of our favorite introverted professor's thoughts on the Boy Who Lived.

What if… What if Regulus Black managed to make it out of the Horcrux cave alive with the locket? And if, after recovering from the potion, he had gone to his brother for shelter from Voldemort’s wrath? What might have turned out differently? My take on a possible Alternate Universe. Will eventually be novel-length. Note: though canon indicates that Regulus’ visit to the cave most likely occurred early in 1979, I’ve decided for various niggling reasons to push it back to early November, 1978, Regulus’ last year at Hogwarts.

Kyan documents the life of him and his friends during their seventh year, and, who knows, maybe he'll finally get a boyfriend and maybe, just maybe, Lily and James will get over themselves and onto each other. MWPP era. OCOCOC LEPJP SBRL Some LESS

Snape meets with Dumbledore and Harry serves a detention.

Severus Snape reflects on a sudden and unexpected death, and what it means to him.

Barty Crouch, Jr., has stripped off his guise for one moment to infiltrate Hogwarts for an ally, a friend of old "still struggling between the Jekyll and the Hyde." He has to decide whether he wants to pull him down with him, or whether just not being betrayed is enough.

Lupin thinks, in some way, Snape must be his to lose.

"I must not only punish but punish with impunity." This story is loosely based on "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. It is also a sequel/prequel to my earlier story "The Evil and the Damage Done." It is not intended as plagiarism, I merely played around with the theme and bits and pieces of the plot, and it is only partly similar to the Poe story. It has also become rather AU due to the developments in HBP. But if you still enjoy pure-blood Snape...

Song fic, Harry’s POV, A morbid tale of regret, bitterness, loss, acceptance and love. It’s easy to love someone who doesn’t love you back.

An Occlumency lesson forces Severus Snape to recall things he’d rather not: his hatred for James Potter, his decision to become a Death Eater, and the love he’d lost as a result. A Severus/Florence tale.

Welcome to Severus Snape's... journal?

Harry's summer holidays are less bad than usual. Someone provides meals for him and heals him with potions. What can a black-white owl have to do with the matter? Will Harry find out in the end? Completely AU after 5th year, partly OOC, sick!Harry.

Lupin made the mistake of believing what he'd been told once, with Sirius; he won't make the same mistake with Snape.

Possible Book 7 - The Trio is back and is ready to embark on the quest to destroy Lord Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Throughout their journey, Harry will sacrifice nearly everything to fulfill the prophecy that has fated his life, but will he be able to make the ultimate sacrifice? Join Harry in the last episode in the Harry Potter Saga, Harry Potter and the Alchemist’s Cell. Enjoy!

"The old question arises again. What is a life worth? Potter's is an army. And some are not even worth the try." Betraying your friends is one thing. Selling their children is another. Severus Snape muses about 'his' Slytherins.

'His bones ached in the chill of the dungeon--he'd never noticed it before, this insidious, almost-comfortable chill, prickling like the breath of a Dementor.' Severus Snape remembers. Implied slash.

Growing up, Harry Potter became a smartass. Now he's starting Hogwarts, with trusty sidekick Millicent Bulstrode, a question for everything, and a cheerfully sarcastic demeanor that makes everyone want to smack him. And apparently there's death lurking in the third floor corridor. That's gonna end well.

Severus Snape is an intelligent man, a brilliant man. Nothing he has learned in a textbook, however, can prepare him to cope with his role in the death of Sirius Black. SS/AD. Slash. Companion to “Somnus Misellus."

Chicago. 1944. Severus Snape is a private detective, hardened by his service as a cop and now in his new line of business. Remus Lupin is a hardened criminal, Snape's arch-nemesis. But what truly happened between the 16 year old versions of these men in the summer of 1929? ~AU Film-Noir fic, Potterverse style.~

Yet another take on the Whomping Willow incident.

Severus Snape languishes in Azkaban, a punishment for his deeds and misdeeds. His life seems destined to end in torturous misery, until one of his gaolers finds herself strangely compelled to help him.

Severus Snape, a former Death Eater, reflects on his past and a past lost love.

Harry and Severus continue their relationship and Harry comes out to his friends with very interesting consequences.

What drives Severus Snape? A short character study.

What is worse, to remember nothing or to remember everything? The war is over and Severus and Bellatrix are living their hell.

Severus Snape kept his personal life a secret to most people for almost twenty years. On a cold night in late December, his most guarded secrets are revealed to the Dark Lord and the Order of the Phoenix. To what end will the Order of the Phoenix protect Severus and his family from the Dark Lord, the other Death Eaters, and the Ministry of Magic.

Have you ever wondered where Dementors come from? What kind of entities are they? What drives them? How much awarness they have? An unexpected meeting at the gates of Hogwarts challenges a young Dementor to muse about its existence....

It was a bittersweet love, wasn’t it? When you were alone and could pretend that he really loved you, but was too scared to admit it, it was heaven. But when you went back into the real world, just for a glimpse of him, you knew it wasn’t so. He loved her.

Everyone's got a story. Even Severus Snape. A one-shot Snape-centric fic.

This is a short story about Snape after he returns to Voldemort. It is slightly suicidal.

A distraught orphan contemplates murdering the man who betrayed his parents.

Draco is sent on a mission that determines whether he will join Lord Voldemort's inner circle or not. Only one problem: It involves dealing with Muggles, to be more specific, the Dursleys. He approaches his first mission with gusto, only to find out that it's not what it seems, he'll have to dig deeper into the inner circle to find out secrets about the Boy Who Lived.

Snape's allergies to one of the ingredients in the Wolfsbane potion causes his problems to multiply.

It was the end of the first war that Snape made a promise to those he held most dear but who have since passed.

In which Severus and Remus are part of a story that no one knew. In which friendship makes many demands and even the good guys aren't entirely innocent.

As Snape struggles to deal with the consequences of the Occulmency lessons, he meets a former classmate that has come to him as a last hope.

When had a pledge of universal honesty become a practice of universal derision? A look at Severus as a teacher.

Out of all the days to come to Hogsmeade, he happened to - “Severus, please, come in.” Dumbledore’s calm voice shook him out of his thoughts.

Young Severus Snape retreates to his little niche in the universe. He reminisces about things in his life and experiences some much needed calm.

It's Halloween, 1987, and Lupin finds himself wandering through the streets of London. As he tries to come to terms with the loss he suffered on this night in 1981, he runs into an old acquaintance for whom Halloween also holds painful significance.

Based on a real story. One-shot deal. Hermione is coming to terms with life and it’s up and down. Will her friends be there for her?

Oneshot. When Severus possesses a bit of power, he's tempted to abuse it. One-sided Severus/Lily. Marauders Era.

He went into it with the idealistic fervor of a crusader—only to find himself no better than a sinner, and a coward. A Severus Snape vignette.

On New Year's Eve, Poppy Pomfrey mourns the loss of a friend.

What exactly can a single strand of hair reveal? First reading A Merciless Affection by Verity Brown is strongly recommended, otherwise the following may not make any sense to you. Verity should know that I just can't resist a challenge.

Grasping the cold steel handle of the jagged blade, she inhaled deeply. “It…could all be over. It could all….be over.” She took a deep breath. That dagger looked so friendly right about now. It seemed to grin at her, daring her, taunting her, saying, “You know you can’t go through with this. You know you can’t go though with this.”```` But inside her head another voice spoke. Calm, cool and collected it said, “Ending your life won’t making anything better and you know it! So suck it up, get some pride and put that damn family heirloom in the china closet where it belongs!” Both voices belonged to her and her alone.

Snape is settled at Hogwarts, teaching Potions. The war is over and Lupin will never come back.

Some weeks after the events in the HBP, Remus Lupin is captured by Death Eaters. He wakes up after the full moon in an unknown cell, bruised and hurting, when his former lover comes to heal him. RL/SS

After the war, Hermione visits Snape. He doesn't know who she is. Written for the Fandomcommerce exchange on LJ.

Narcissa Kent-Malfoy has met many angels in her life. This is her story.

This originally was written as a Mother's Day gift to my readers in 2005. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first and probably only story about Snape's infancy. Read, enjoy and review!

Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, Remus Lupin has been hired to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Severus Snape is having some thoughts during the first staff meeting of the autumn term.

Draco sits in the Infirmary after the CoS Gryffindor/Slytherin match, waiting...

It's Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. A long-lost (but not forgotten) potion reappears in the worst possible way, forcing Snape to fight through painful memories in an attempt to redeem himself. From Snape's POV.

Seven years after the final battle, Snape considers a few personal demons.

Severus picks up a little girl after an attack. Is her happiness due to shock, or is there something else involved?

A Sev/Lily non-magic AU. Severus has gone to the same club, every day, just to watch her dance with her friends. Now, after far too much waiting, he decides to approach her. It goes much better than he expected.

Harry has fallen ill at the primary school and is waiting for someone to take him home. Who cares enough to save him? Completely AU, partly OOC, Neglect!Dursleys, Sick!Harry, childfic.

A young Severus Snape is learning Occlumency from Dumbledore under the watchful eye of the portraits on his office wall.

A poignant glance at the sparks of childhood enmity between Severus Snape and James Potter. Short-short story, companion to "Pretty Hate Machine."

"I am a rock / I am an island / And a rock feels no pain / And an island never cries" A Snape songfic inspired by a Freelancer Music Video.

Lupin and Snape are men on a mission, albeit one without any kind of thought-out plan. They're on their way to a small town somewhere in the Transylvanian mountains, but as for when they get there... well, they're just not all that certain about what they're actually supposed to be doing there. They are certain about one thing, however - there is no one they wouldn't rather be sent on a mission with than each other. ...But as we all know, it's not the goal but the journey there that matters! Right? Well, they're not thrilled about that, either.

Evan Rosier finds himself in need of some company the night of his twenty-first birthday, and Lucius Malfoy reluctantly decides to oblige him. Drunken inner ramblings and bitchiness abound.

"It was a miracle I had even been aloud into school with my ‘condition’, as my parents had called it, but to have a large tree that attacks you to protect me during the full moon, and for the nurse to look after me in the mornings, that was more than I ever could have expected."``The first time you meet a group of people can influence the rest of your life. Remus was terrified but ecstatic to be starting his first year of Hogwarts, but he had no idea how much a train ride could influence the rest of his life.

He wasn't looking forward to sitting in a Muggle club, awaiting the arrival of an informant. But his dull assignment turns into something more when a stranger (whose eyes look so familiar), and a few rounds of double Scotch turn things around. One-shot, poem fic, Snape.

Two roads diverged in a wood.

Severus reflects upon his vows - past and present - and his own motives. This leads him back to the one person he has ever loved: R. A. B.

"My hands are stained." On Harry's first day at Hogwarts, Snape ponders damnation and redemption.

Far away across the field/ The tolling of the iron bell/ Calls the faithful to their knees/ To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

Years ago Severus Snape met the love of his life. But Vernon and Petunia Dursley aren't the only Muggles who hate magic. And prejudice can go both ways. Love hurts and the loss hurts even more.

This is a last goodbye to my 'Subplot/Unplottable'-universe and therefore heavily AU: After serving Voldemort as a nameless fighter, Snape returns to Hogwarts.

What happens when a new teacher from Brazil comes to Hogwarts to teach? The new 'Professora' has a vigorous vitality and love for life, and a determination for a certain Potions Master to share in her happiness...

Sirius explains to Remus exactly how he and Snape first got together--and how they split up. Companion piece to I Dream of You in Shadow.

Snape has an unwelcome nighttime visitor.

Some people suggest it was just selfishness on Snape's part to stop his Occlumency lessons with Harry, but perhaps Snape's reasons run far deeper. A Snape's POV response to the OotP chapter "Snape's Worst Memory."

A very young Severus Snape takes his first steps into the Dark Wizarding world.

"What is your ambition, Miss Lestrange?" "Sir?" "To be worthy of your name, perhaps, or to redeem it in the eyes of men, or maybe to be so ordinary that you will be swept away in the tide of the unfulfilled desires of lesser hearts and beached by the lacklustre dreams around you." Contains references to self-harm. Also contains french poetry.

'The inelegant rumble in my stomach causes my face to contort in concentration. Of all the times to get wind, why now?!' Professor Snape is standing up there blowing like a huge bag of hot air.

The tragic event of March 11th of Harry's seventh year starts a vicious cycle of death and despair for several students and quickly spreads to the rest of the wizarding world. But even after the Final Battle, the war rages on. With people still dying and turning up missing there seems to be no end in sight. But Snape has a secret that may change all that, but at what cost? In the end is he a Killer, Hero, or just another Victim?

Oneshot. While searching for Voldemort's horcruxes together, Harry is almost killed due to a bad decision on Snape's part. Harry decides that a few changes are due... or Snape is not going to enjoy the consequences.

What was going through Snape's head as he died? What was he thinking about, and who?

Someone on WIKTT theorised that Snape had not gone back to Voldemort to spy, but instead to take care of the problem of the Dementors at Azkaban. That set this little plot bunny running around my head.

There is danger in dwelling on past mistakes, as Dumbledore and Snape discover. Missing moment from PS/SS.

"Dying inside, never forgiven, branded forever... no one cares, no one knows, no one hears. I’m alone..." Who will listen to cries of the lost souls? Some things remain forever unsaid. Ch1-Draco’s POV after the events in the tower.