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It's about Snape and his heart's desire

After the term ends, Severus Snape reflects upon the death of an old enemy.

"We're marked, you and I, by Voldemort." Can allegiances be formed out of old misunderstandings?

He stood, going to the window, where a small stuffed bear sat on the bench below it. He reached out, picking it up, and sat down, the bear looking faintly ridiculous clutched in the arms of the Potions Master. He'd promised her he'd try, that he wouldn't give up. And now he once again fell into the life that he'd begun after she died. He spied for Albus so no one else would lose family. So no one else lost their sister.

Severus Snape loses his temper, gets slashed, tries to ignore the voices in his head and keep Dumbledore firmly out – until he really needs help, that is. The night of Sirius Black’s escape from Hogwarts.

Severus Snape, Death Eaters, and seven small children. Who will survive until the end of the day?

Vivian Leroux has a cursed parentage, a sharp mind and a rather dull past. She's also Hogwart's newest student. Intrigue, mystery and deception are rife in this story set in Harry's seccond year, which also includes Snape's past, an improbable curse and a new girl who forms no romantic attatchments with either Harry, Draco or Ron.

Find out what happens when you mix one dark-haired Slytherin poet, a reluctant James Potter and a bored Sirius Black left too long to his own devices.

James confronts Severus Snape after Sirius told Snape about the entrance to the Whomping Willow.

Professor Snape is Hogwarts' (somewhat unwilling!) Agony Aunt. Sympathy is not his strong point...

Even at a young age, Severus Snape didn't think much of self-pity. However, even he was not above the occasional bouts of it.

A crazy story about a muggleborn and her obsession with Sirius. Sirius-ness ahead!

Outtake from

Forbidden thoughts form in the mind of a young Severus Snape, as the Dark Lord shows his ability to raise the dead at a Death Eater meeting.

An older, wiser Severus Snape reflects on his past, an obsession, and Remus Lupin. This story contains implied slash.

When the curse on the position of DADA teacher claims another victim and as the war with old Voldy escalates, Dumbledore decides that he needs to bring new blood to the faculty. A Coven of five American witches steps up to meet the challenge. After the farce in the DoM, Harry, who is getting more powerful by the day, needs training if he is going to face the Dark Lord and live. When new information is revealed, ties are formed, it becomes clear that Harry just may have found the power that the dark lord knows not. Ignores HBP and DH.

sleep-deprived Hermione on the edge of nervous breakdown and an anxious Snape talk a walk down memory lane.

This is a post HBP, pre-DH story from Severus' point of view. It's all about the mistakes he's made. This is an SS/HG fic, inspired by the song "Evaporated" by Ben Folds Five.

Snape confesses to Dumbledore that he is a Death Eater.

An one-shot story of true love, undeniable courage and bravery set around the events of September 11, 2001. Just a heartbreaking story about Love and 'Shoulds'.````Rated R for sensitive subject matter. ````Features Snape, Lupin and OC.

Hermione remembers key events in her life.

Quidditch, girlfriends, meddling inexpertly with the Dark Arts – Lucius Malfoy seems to get stranger by the day. Sixth-year Severus Snape is confronted not only with the changing nature of his social circle, but also with choosing sides.

Snape hides out on Craggy Island. Father Ted crossover.

Hermione and Ron have another of their famous rows, though maybe he has gone too far this time. She wanders through the school corridors in tears, till she finds an unexpected source of comfort.

We all know (or at least, suppose) how Severus Snape felt about his father being abusive towards his mother. But how does his mother feel about it? Murder-fic. PG-13 for blood.

After Ron and Hermione are captured by Death Eaters, Snape has to make some important decisions about the costs of war.

"You know how you feel when you fly? Like everything in the world is right? And I know that you know pretty well what it feels like to be in the presence of a dementor. Well, Potter, imagine going from one extreme to the other randomly, never knowing if tomorrow you will wake up on cloud nine or more depressed than you have ever felt in your entire life." Severus Snape is so misunderstood, but if people only took the time to listen, they could see the man behind the madness.

At the final battle, a grief-stricken Snape looks back over his relationship with Lucius Malfoy.

Harry saves Sev's life, but when Minerva asks Severus to postpone the Quidditch match for Harry's sake, it causes the two colleagues to put up a fight in front of the whole school. Who can bring them to reason, and who saves them from Poppy? Completely AU.

"Don't throw up," said exactly the last voice she wanted to hear. "There isn't any water for you to drink and you'll wreck my shoes."

I guess this really is the ultimate. Thanks all the poetry we've been studying this year, a pretty grim reflection of the human race has been painted. In a way, this fic reflects the thoughts of what my class discussed and the purposes of people and the lives that they lead... kind of a narrative with pure speech interlinked **THIS IS SHORT**

Snape is having a poetic, far-beyond-canon experience in a Muggle bar, and it's called: Music. SS/RL implied. One-shot.

Lily goes undercover to get a certain Death Eater to join the Order...

[Silmarillion/HP] Escaping from the Doors of Night, Severus Snape must undertake a quest before regaining his wand. Fortunately for Severus, Glorfindel decides to accompany him and try to keep him alive long enough to complete it.

To fight the gathering Dark, Harry must sacrifice his innocence to learn a different kind of magic. Snape and Remus, one a bitter foe, the other a budding friend, combine efforts to give Harry the chance to finally defeat Voldemort--but at what cost?

The exact moment of Snape's disillusionment with being a Death Eater, eventually leading to his defection. Warning: dark.

Sirius is bored and Snape's getting letters.

Draco, running for his life, wants it all to stop.

Professor Snape reflects on the devastating aftermath of his fears and failures as the new school year following Voldemort's return begins.

Harry hears a wonderful disco song on the radio and decides to discofy the school, with the help of Madam Peace Pince. What happens though, when Snape decides to put an end to the disco? Includes disco, funky clothing, cool names, and torture weapons!

The Lamentation of Severus. A poemfic in which Snape predicts the future, and chides Harry for the choices he's made.

Confession of Severus Snape, the Potions Master. We hear about his life, school times and what happened after: his friends and enemies, his love. Post SS/LE.

Sirius and Severus have a shared history that has a lot more than just rivalry--There's love too. But there's more than just the simple problem of one being a Gryffindor and the other a Slytherin. It's a lifelong story, one that certainly has its shares of ups and downs.

We’re all so invincible until the end. Snape has betrayed every loyalty he’s ever held. Draco has no loyalties.

The final battle between the Dark Lord and the Boy Who Lived falls on the night of the full moon, striking fear into the hearts of all present. Who shall win on this bloody night of judgment between good and evil? Honorable Mention in HarryPotterFanfiction.Com's 2007 Writer's Duel.

Severus shares a sad moment with his lover before the end. Very sad, you will need tissues folks.

Remus thinks of what could have been. (Severus/Remus, Sirius/Remus)

“I do not know where this path leads. I am simply following the signs.” “Signs? Like the Virgin Mary appearing in a burrito?” “No. Not at all.” A look inside Severus's twisted mind on the night after the the Department of Mysteries fiasco. A song fic to Boulevard of Broken dreams, by Green Day.

Severus first deals with an unwanted assistant, then must deal with a mysterious illness ravaging Hogwarts. Multibook story. Book two will deal with a new threat against Severus and those he holds dear.

In which a mysterious notice is posted, Hermione is perpetually horrified, Ernie explains Aberforth's love for goats, McGonagall suggests that she and Snape "get it on," Draco waxes poetic about Harry's beauty, and two Santa Clauses dance to the Eurythmics.

All his life he'd longed for solitude. Other desires had come and gone; power, fame, fortune, love, respect, some fulfilled and others simply forgotten. The one constant, the dream that had survived through it all, was this.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry sits high, overlooking a lake in an isolated part of the countryside. ``At night, the lake looks black in the moonlight, like blood does, and the windows open like eyes with candlelight behind them. From the outside, you can circle the castle and find the windows of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff, but you will not see Slytherin. They are reached through the dungeons. (One scene that embodies exactly what Slytherin House is. Set in the James Potter years. Rated what it is basically because it's a little creepy.)

Severus' life, as described by the Tarot.

"As I stare, my limbs lifeless, her eyes open. I see nothing but green." Snape reflects on the past and plans for the future. One shot, post HBP.

Hermione loves the dark, evil, greasy git of a potions master, Snape. Snape however, not only doesn't return her feelings, but detests Hermione with a passion. Why does Hermione keep trying despite his rejections? What will happen if she finally stops trying? Rated PG-13 for scary themes and a little language. A one-shot, song-fic to the Dixie Chicks' "Let Him Fly." Lots of Angst and one-sided romance.

One side of the dark man of the potions world...and his secret love for the Mudblood yet captivating Lily Evans... A look back at all the love that he had had for her while still at Hogwarts years later.

Fifteen years prior to the events at the end of "Goblet of Fire" and the beginning of "Order of the Phoenix", there were two Death Eaters. One was trying to redeem a tortured life, one was in fear for his own. Only Albus Dumbledore would bring them together. Both will discover life demands many sacrifices. This is Snape's story.

"Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in the seventh year..." At nine, Severus Snape has a chance encounter with a boy named Lucius Malfoy in the streets of London.

Snape could stand the pain if he could face the memories.

Merlin, what a waste of time. If knowing the future were as easy as looking at leaves in a teacup... Eileen took the final sip, then held the cup in her left hand and swirled vigorously. Three times, clockwise, the way Professor Mopsus had taught them. She drained the dregs, put the cup back down on the saucer, and critically peered inside. It looked like...clumps of damp tea leaves.

Harry Potter's capture ends the war, but it doesn't end the battle; Muggle-borns are rounded up and used as slaves for the ruling Death Eater party, while the rest of the Wizarding World is left in shambles. Hermione Granger turns to some old enemies in order to cope.

As Hermione, Harry and Ron embark upon their final year at Hogwarts they discover that life doesn't really care much for their plans and the power that the Dark Lords knows not is revealed in a surprising way. HG/SS with HP/DM. Rated R for later chapters.

If there's one thing Severus Snape has learnt, it's that not everything is black and white.

Snape is haunted by memories, and has a meeting with temptation in the form of Bellatrix Lestrange. Because no one can remain impassive forever, and it is not only fools who can wear their hearts on their sleeves.

When an Auror is sent to the States to track down some runaway Death Eaters, he finds he may be in over his head. Set sometime after HBP

The house is old, the garden's a jungle, and Lupin isn't sure what can be salvaged. Sequel to "Escapism."

Severus Snape returns to Hogwarts and finds himself once more a student.

Decisions. They're what lead our lives, no matter how bad the consequences can become. And it was his decisions that made Severus Snape turn to the Dark Arts, and then back again...

In which there is a different sort of Death Eater centric plot, two muggles find themselves completely powerless against Wizarding law, and Hermione makes a desperate decision whose consequences everyone must face. "I made the best choice that I could under the circumstances, and now that I need you to support me, you can't do that?!"

Shortly after the summer holidays, Harry comes down with a Muggle disease, passing it over to the whole school. However, even if the house-elves take care of students and teachers, Severus has to brew potions for them, and maybe he needs some help. AU/OOC.

Lucius in black fur, yummy. Goyle in a Cupboard, not so scrummy. A basilisk with an upset tummy!

An incident in Professor Ash's life at Hogwarts. Takes place two months after the story of The Recipe. How to deal with the annoying Potions master? One-shot.

AU fic... Prequel to Daddy's Girl. Sirius Black has a son named Ash. Sirius Black does not want his only son dating a Snape heiress. Will she be able to earn Sirius’ trust or will she die in an attempt to win Sirius?

At times like this, in the dead of the night, when all that can be heard is his whimpering, his incomprehensible pleading, I wonder if what I do is right. I take him for all he's worth, his skills, his intelligence, his need for someone to notice his existence and I manipulate his weakness into what I need and take it all. Severus angsts, as Lucius reflects.

A potion is circling the school, leaving everyone it infects unable to hide there true emotions. Facades are unveiled and boundaries are crossed. An unlikely group of students pair together to solve this mystery. Featuring Draco Malfoy, the singing sensation, and strangely enough, Goyle, going ballet.

Have Professor Snape and Hermione finally found love in each other? Or will one of them ruin it all?

Neville comes across an interesting plant in a very old herbology book. It seems that it may have the power to bring his parents out of their catatonic condition. He delves into study and preparation, only to find that the plant is extinct. The last known living plant was owned by... his mother! There is a way to go back in time, but it involves very dangerous and dark magic. The only one who can help him learn is Professor Snape. Neville takes the risk, with strict warnings not to try to change the events of time. Can he resist the temptation to change the past? What if he can't?

She couldn't remember, as she sat there on the couch with her glass of eggnog held precariously in her hand, what it was that had possessed her to come home for Christmas break. What had made her think that anything would have improved? Surely this was the worst night of her life. ... Lily's Christmas isn't looking very happy, but maybe it can still be saved.

Severus Snape was dedicated to Lily Potter and loved her his entire life, but she was not the first person he had ever loved with obsessive devotion. This story is an accompaniment to Deathly Hallows (and the other books, as well) but fills in some gaps. Details of Snape's last days, surprising information about his life, and why it had to end that way.

A prequel to Ribbons in the Wind, this fic is set on the night that young Severus Snape lost the only person he ever let close to him. It is the beginning of his fall to the darkness.

PoA era. Severus Snape takes a thoughtful stroll down Diagon Alley at the start of the Christmas holidays, but it soon turns into a quite a harrowing ordeal for our favourite Potions Master. Contains some rather dark humour. You have been warned!

If Snape hadn't transferred his grudges onto a student, and Harry hadn't hated his professor as a result, they wouldn't have been friends or allies, but perhaps there would have been a grudging respect between them.

He stared at the tombstone. It blended in amongst all the others; there was nothing special about it. Nothing to set it apart as the tombstone of the Boy Who Lived, who wasn’t so much alive anymore as he was dead and buried. First of the End Of World oneshots.

Severus Snape is dead, brutally murdered and the only person who could have killed him is his lover, Hermione Granger. She found him dead and it has cost her sanity, for even she doesn't know if she killed him or not. Told from Hermione's POV, very dark.

There was a reason between Severus' hatred for James Potter, and eventually in his son. It, surprisingly, had nothing to do with Severus and Lily. It was all James' fault. Why did he have to go and marry that red-headed witch anyways? They had had something together!

Ron plays chess with Harry while contemplating ruthless choices and actions.

Twelfth Night, 1978. A Hogsmeade FortuneTeller receives an extremely reluctant customer into her shop. "Fortune Telling is for Muggles and Fools," he is quick to sneer. But despite his attitude, the young Severus Snape made a promise to someone, and he is determined to keep it. (One-shot teen!Snape fic)

The sequel to "A Look in the Mind of Voldemort," based on Nonoka's artwork, the new FictionAlley Park picture. A spy tries to find out what happens to the Dark Lord. He find himself watching Ships in Fiction Alley Park pass by.

Dreams. By day Snape can sneer at them and push them to the back of his mind. But as he well knows its not so simple to keep such an iron control of the subconscious at night. Unease can become fear, dreams can become nightmares...

Accompany Minerva and Severus and maybe Harry on several selected days from the first day of classes in Harry's second year onwards, dealing with fraud Lockhart, duels between the Slytherins and Gryffindors, etc. AU, partly OOC, de-aging, sick!characters.

Sirius struggles to keep his sanity in Azkaban, but one group of memories in particular wears away at him. Will he win, or will the Dementors break him?

What happened to Quirrell that infamous day in Book One?

"I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!" When Harry looked into Professor Snape's Pensieve, there was something he didn't see.

Dumbledore is sick of Minerva's and Severus' constant bickering and orders them to have a snowball fight. AU, sick!Min. Written for Minerva McGonagall 62's request after her participation in my writing contest.

One Christmas Eve, after a particularly unpleasant Occlumency lesson, Severus is visited by a ghost. Lily is furious over how he has treated her son—and determined to make Severus see just how much Harry needs him. Loosely based on "A Christmas Carol".

March 2007 FA Potions Challenge: Perenelle Flamel gave pumpkin juice to Hedwig.

Variation on my fic "To Sir, With Love". An one-shot story of love and regret set around the events of September 11, 2001. Rated R for sensitive subject matter. Snape, Lupin and OC. Focus is Snape.

Nothing will blossom in the City of Light or the Kingdom of Heaven, but in darker, quieter places. Sequel to "Undergrowth."

A missing moment from Half-Blood Prince. What happened after Snape and Draco left Hogwarts?

Minerva and Severus have to escort the students to Hogsmeade since all of their colleagues are ill. Will they survive the trip? AU, sick!teachers.