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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.

Severus would have never thought a time would come when they, when he, would need Neville.

And I who am here dissembled/ Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love/ To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.

When Harry is rescued from the Dursleys, deaf, mute, and barely alive, the others must help him cope with years of abuse and his new disabilities. As a strange bond awakens between he and his friends, they all come into powers that haven't been seen in millennia, while suffering from dreams about strange artifacts and a white phoenix named Life, who holds the secret to Voldemort's destruction, or his victory.

Following a run-in with Sirius Black, Severus Snape reckons with his conscience, reliving the fatal moments that caused him to turn away from the Death Eaters and to Dumbledore fifteen years ago. Romance/angst.

This is the second of my one chapter mini-fics that spun off of Enigma's Love. This is a tale of jealousy and where it leads - this is my version of why Snape became a Death Eater and Remus' involvement in it.

A journal, or rather, a log of thoughts from one of Hogwarts finest pranksters--aside from the Weasley Twins. Get into the mind of Sean Atkins, a fifth year Gryffindor with unique sense of humor. However, he makes drastic changes to his carefree and aloof lifestyle when he meets, ahem, the "girl of his dreams" and begins to chase after her. People think of him as a mental case--after he cleans up himself and his act... A good story about just being yourself when all else fails.

Snape found her in a dark corner and wondered why she was back.

Ginny finds herself in an odd predicament after a detention with Snape.

The Wizarding World's on strike, Harry's scar hurts and the Dark Lord pays a visit.

What Snape thinks on the day after You-Know-What happens. Just a short ficlet.

A hypothetical followed by a serious conversation between Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore suspects that Snape wants to tell him something, and when Dumbledore presses for information, he gets more than he bargined for. The reasons Severus Snape betrayed Voldemort. For all those who can't stand a sobbing Snape story of redemption. Sometimes we just need to accept that we only need justification to follow the course of actions we are willing to perform.

Narcissa Black falls through the ice on the lake, Severus Snape is tormented as always, and Lucius Malfoy shows that there is such a thing as Slytherin loyalty. Everyone skates on very thin ice before the first war.

Snape stumbled upon one of the Marauder's secrets and it could be deadly....

Severus Snape wants to challenge the Death. Will he succeed? The White Rabbit will be his guide through the whole trip in the Death's world.

It had always been easy for Sirius to hate Severus Snape.

Making love isn't the only way. Sirius Black/Severus Snape. Set during OotP. One-shot.

My name is Gilderoy Lockhart and I am perfect. I magnetically and magically attract the love of every sane human being, as well as that offer from that one wizard with a really good imagination but who unfortunately lives in Bangkok.

Young Severus Snape enters to Hogwarts for first time. How will his schooltime go? Warning of school teasing! Please read and review!

Hermione comes home one day to much more than she had expected. Two Death Eaters who switch sides every five lines, death and betrayal. If you think Snape is a cuddly, fatherly person you should probably skip this fic... unless you want me to prove otherwise.

Following the battle in the Department of Mysteries, Lucius Malfoy is sent to Azkaban, leaving Severus Snape to ponder the years of love and transgressions they have shared. Romance/angst. SS/LM slash.

After his Lord's downfall, Lucius Malfoy isn't just shaken. When a certain Diary finds its way to his hands, we have a Lord Voldemort-starved Malfoy who thinks he has very little to lose and a projection of 16-year-old Tom Riddle. Diary Riddle wants to find out more about this man who had dazzled his future self. As he walks through the maze of Lucius, he finds himself becoming increasingly attached to the Malfoy and deeply in love with him. Also Lucius is affected by closeness he had never even dreamed of having with his (secretly) beloved Dark Lord. The pale reflex of what he could have had with Voldemort tortures him, but he finds himself incapable of putting the Diary away, like he had never been able to unravel himself from that love.

Severus Snape recalls his relationship with Sirius Black through their third and fourth years at Hogwarts, as told to Remus Lupin during Harry's third year at Hogwarts.

Severus Snape contemplates his home for a few quiet moments at the beginning of the summer before The Half-Blood Prince.

Mistakes of the past become nightmares of the future. Snape views a memory in the Pensieve he would rather forget. Snape/Lily.

A potions accident leaves Snape as a cat until who-knows-when. Harry's already got his hands full when a prankster starts sabotaging the rebuilding of Hogwarts. But what if it's not just a prank?

Fanfic comprised mostly of original characters! Malfoy and Snape and Slytherin-in-general oriented! ``It's about a character named Elise *who's based on me* and her trials through her 5th year at Hogwarts. Also, what she finds late one night, and how the item changes her forever....

An investigation into the death of Regulus Black. Who``did it and how?

Snape's reaction to Sirius' death - and the repercussions.

I watch the chapel fill, slowly. People I remember from school, that I had never been friends with. They aren't there for me, but I don't care. They are there for Blaise, for Hermione. For Snape. Oh, it's a laugh. Me, the person least liked - after Snape and Voldemort - at Hogwarts, and the chapel near the Manor is filled with people come to help bury me. More than can be said for some people more liked, more loved.

Ever wondered about that scar above Dumbledore's left knee (the one that was a "perfect map of the London Underground")? Or why he said scars can be useful? Or why he likes chamber music? This story explores all those things, and also speculates about how Severus Snape spent the summer before Harry Potter started at Hogwarts. Two wizards meet a Muggle woman who learns something about magic, and about her own family.

Strange things are happening to our heroes. Who is responsible?

The deepest desire, the one craving written onto the surface of the very soul is never altruistic. It is what self is; the blueprint, the essence. Snape, Dumbledore, the Mirror of Erised, odd explanations, odd style, general oddness...

She was the only one he thought of, for his last moments. SSHG.

Remus Lupin must deal with the death of a closer friend, and even harder... learn to move on.

After Lupin and Snape rescue Ollivander from the Death Eaters, he must re-evaluate his life and the new chance he has been given.

Snape is, yet again, the butt of Sirius' latest joke. A bit of SiriusxRemus, but hardly at all.

Harry deals with the death of Severus in his own way.

The events of the astronomy tower, from Severus' perspective. Spoilers for HBP

Severus Snape was sent to Cornwall in the summer of 1996 by Dumbledore to do 'Order work' which really meant relax. Follow Snape's excursion in the Muggle world with a new identity and new discoveries to technology and being social. It's a laugh, really.

Remus feels betrayed by Sirius after he leads Snape to him [Chapter Eighteen of the Prisoner of Azkaban (on page 261 in the UK hardcover)]. sbxrl, jp+ss, jp+le.

Professor Snape in a pink thong and matching bra?? SCARY!

"So you understand then the predicament in which we are mired." When Remus Lupin is captured, it could spell the end of the Order. The unlikely intervation of Severus Snape brings an unsettling salvation. RL/SB overtones. One-shot.

The Trio's summer before sixth year is going to be a lot different than before. From an attack to intercepted letters to a big fight to finding out OWL marks, this will be one summer never to forget!

"This house feeds off me like a cancer. Sometimes, late at nights, I think that the house is a sentient entity, an ugly creature that has absorbed my family’s beliefs over the centuries and is now the embodiment of all I tried to run away from at age sixteen [...]Now I feel that what Peter started that Halloween Eve, what the Dementors continued in Azkaban, this lethifold of a house will finish, and I’ll become some kind of empty shell that looks like Sirius Black, speaks like Sirius Black but it’s not, inside, where it counts, Sirius Black." WARNING (for those faint of heart who need it): angst, slash (SB/SS) and incoherency.

A time-line without dates. Events that shape and demonstrate the development of a boy. Lists his surroundings and actions as they are known. They say with these two things you can understand a person.

Pansy catches Hermione doing something despicable and is determined to tell Draco and watch as he exacts revenge upon her, but Draco has other plans. DHr, Oneshot.

Harry is back for his sixth year stronger than before, Voldemort's on the rise, and the Wizarding World is locked in an epic battle between good and evil. Add in a mysterious orb, sparking romances, and a new Defense professor, and watch the events unfold. PG-13 for now, will probably change later.

Late at night in July of 1981, Albus Dumbldore received information that the Dark Lord intended to attack the Potters. Two scenes.

After Dumbledore's untimely demise, Harry Potter spends an unconventional summer training under one of the best Aurors alive. When he returns to Hogwarts in September, all Harry wants is a bit of normalcy. Falling for the new (and amazingly young) Defense professor does NOT count. . . especially when she's Snape's daughter--and a bit of something else, to everyone's surprise. [Not fully DH-compliant.]

A take on how Severus Snape came to be a Death Eater. Completed.

I stood upon the rough stone. Life was so peaceful up here. Nobody wanted anything more from me than what I could give. The wind whipped my robes around me like a swarm of black sparrows where sewn to it, each desperately trying to escape me. I couldn’t blame them. What had I to offer them? They deserved more than I could give.

The summer before her seventh year leaves Lily's life in tatters, and it doesn't get any better once she's back at Hogwarts. So the last thing she needs is a more than tolerable head boy.

It’s shortly after the war and Lucius is the last surviving Death Eater, who has found himself being chased by Aurors and members of the Order. He has nowhere to escape and no one to save him.

Harry does not like making this potion. Neither does Snape.

A 'darkly beautiful' man reflects on the demise of a relationship through the course of several full moons. SS/RL, RL/SB implied slash.

Some animals just don't make good pets... A tale of friendship, choice, and many, many familiars.

Severus reminds himself of what could have been. The message hits hard.

What seems like an error in Potions leads Snape to sing and dance like a disco queen... everybody laughs, but there is more to the situation than meets the eye. The only thing is, will the only person aware of the truth do the right thing, or will they be scared and frightened, and possibly be responsible for Snape's death?

The wizarding world had been attacked. Trinity Snape's children, husband, and the survivors from the Final Battle were killed. Trinity, in a fit of rage and dispair, had demolished the troop of attackers. But, can the savior of the Wizarding world stand being alone? Trinity Snape takes a walk down memory lane.

A story of Snape, a candle, and a life. That's all there is to say, really.