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Enough by Gracelynn
10/12/2003

Hermione remembers key events in her life.

Words: 2,426
Chapters: 1
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Paths by Mi
05/30/2003

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.

Words: 2,758
Chapters: 1
Hits: 306

Snape hides out on Craggy Island. Father Ted crossover.

Words: 545
Chapters: 1
Hits: 306

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.

Words: 916
Chapters: 1
Hits: 305

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.

Words: 1,248
Chapters: 1
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Necessity by tarnationawaits
04/17/2004

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

Words: 1,304
Chapters: 1
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"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.

Words: 1,972
Chapters: 1
Hits: 301

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

Words: 2,240
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 2,523
Chapters: 1
Hits: 300
Smoke by liquidscissors
01/16/2005

"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."

Words: 3,619
Chapters: 1
Hits: 299

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**

Words: 1,370
Chapters: 1
Hits: 299
¡Tango! by Mi
12/08/2003

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

Words: 1,430
Chapters: 1
Hits: 298
Lover by Ninotsjka
02/24/2004

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

Words: 577
Chapters: 1
Hits: 298

[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.

Words: 5,993
Chapters: 1
Hits: 298
Revenge by mary_re
08/19/2004

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?

Words: 4,923
Chapters: 1
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The exact moment of Snape's disillusionment with being a Death Eater, eventually leading to his defection. Warning: dark.

Words: 1,201
Chapters: 1
Hits: 294
Blackmail by fleshdress
03/20/2005

Sirius is bored and Snape's getting letters.

Words: 1,562
Chapters: 1
Hits: 293
No More by Lowlands Girl
08/27/2006

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

Words: 1,633
Chapters: 1
Hits: 291
Drowning by Stellarific
02/05/2003

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

Words: 1,630
Chapters: 1
Hits: 290

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!

Words: 2,577
Chapters: 1
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The Lamentation of Severus. A poemfic in which Snape predicts the future, and chides Harry for the choices he's made.

Words: 507
Chapters: 1
Hits: 289
Confession by Uliczka
04/22/2004

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.

Words: 1,367
Chapters: 1
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Cause and Effect by Airiel
07/29/2007

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.

Words: 8,181
Chapters: 1
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We’re all so invincible until the end. Snape has betrayed every loyalty he’s ever held. Draco has no loyalties.

Words: 1,482
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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.

Words: 4,140
Chapters: 1
Hits: 285
Butterbones by strangeseraph
08/26/2006

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

Words: 821
Chapters: 1
Hits: 284
The Other Side by mistykasumi
06/26/2005

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

Words: 603
Chapters: 1
Hits: 280
I Walk Alone by Carnivore
12/26/2004

“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.

Words: 794
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 1,014
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 4,075
Chapters: 1
Hits: 279

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.

Words: 857
Chapters: 1
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Slytherin by Kt.M.M.
04/22/2004

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.)

Words: 1,208
Chapters: 1
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"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.

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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.

Words: 1,001
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 677
Chapters: 1
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Sacrifice by Cydonia
09/02/2004

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.

Words: 6,662
Chapters: 1
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"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.

Words: 3,988
Chapters: 1
Hits: 273
Stings by Cruisedirector
03/27/2005

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

Words: 764
Chapters: 1
Hits: 273
Tea Leaves by Cecelle
05/21/2007

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.

Words: 3,990
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 1,115
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 673
Chapters: 1
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Greyscale by Cassandra Riley
07/11/2008

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

Words: 1,154
Chapters: 1
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Nostalgia by Rowen Redford
11/09/2003

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.

Words: 1,145
Chapters: 1
Hits: 269
Striking Out by Caleythia
10/23/2005

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

Words: 1,680
Chapters: 1
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Undergrowth by Cruisedirector
07/01/2005

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

Words: 2,341
Chapters: 1
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Decisions by SammyD
11/14/2004

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...

Words: 2,706
Chapters: 1
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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?!"

Words: 1,652
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 3,643
Chapters: 1
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Conversations by jahal
10/26/2003

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

Words: 1,120
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 2,561
Chapters: 1
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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?

Words: 13,643
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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.

Words: 1,110
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 1,724
Chapters: 1
Hits: 261
Love by sigh
12/16/2003

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

Words: 967
Chapters: 1
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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?

Words: 634
Chapters: 1
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At Christmas by Vitil
12/16/2008

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.

Words: 3,261
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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.

Words: 4,649
Chapters: 2
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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.

Words: 871
Chapters: 1
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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!

Words: 4,958
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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.

Words: 2,134
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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.

Words: 1,246
Chapters: 1
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Descent by Tiniwiel
04/12/2007

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.

Words: 1,115
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Lament by Zeehanahara
06/19/2008

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!

Words: 1,216
Chapters: 1
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Gambit by harmony_bites
04/15/2006

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

Words: 1,548
Chapters: 1
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A Sickle by Thirteen Ravens
10/26/2004

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)

Words: 1,982
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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.

Words: 926
Chapters: 1
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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...

Words: 1,192
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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.

Words: 5,007
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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?

Words: 1,847
Chapters: 1
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Quirrell by The Savant
04/11/2005

What happened to Quirrell that infamous day in Book One?

Words: 3,533
Chapters: 1
Hits: 251
Backstory by Magic Words
07/06/2006

"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.

Words: 2,023
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 1,238
Chapters: 1
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A Christmas Vow by Alexannah
07/12/2015

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".

Words: 3,178
Chapters: 3
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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.

Words: 5,115
Chapters: 1
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Parched by Cruisedirector
07/01/2005

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

Words: 2,843
Chapters: 1
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Mercy by Potioncat
09/04/2005

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

Words: 1,043
Chapters: 1
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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.

Words: 1,907
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Mirage by illyria_pffyffin
06/22/2005

Lupin could only watch as his friend once again tricked Snape into doing something humiliating in their last year in Hogwarts. But the incident ended in a kiss in the corridor and tale of unrequited love.

Words: 7,789
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Severus Snape reflects on the events leading up to the murder of Dumbledore. Sometimes there aren't any happy endings. Angst. Songfic for the 'What Have I Done?' song from Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical, Les Miserables.

Words: 1,351
Chapters: 1
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Memory. We use it to define who we are. Without it, we have no past. ``Harry can recall events. But names? Faces? Blank. As he tries to regain his lost memories, Harry must face the newest danger threatening the Wizarding world.

Words: 6,198
Chapters: 1
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Neville, along with the company of three members of Hufflepuff, make their way through the school corridors in the dead of night so that they can have an important document sent to the Order. But then, they are caught and taken straight to the new headmaster, Professor Snape, so that he can deal with this form of treason personally. But the way he actually reacts leaves the four of them confused and...still confused

Words: 3,449
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Death Eaters have taken Hogwarts. The Order has fallen. Who will save them? Only the greatest witch in all fan fiction. But who will save us from her?

Words: 4,598
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Lupin and Snape witness the aftermath of Azkaban shortly before Harry's fifth year and Remus realizes something about Snape's sleeping habits.

Words: 1,021
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Torn by Taye McAdams
07/27/2004

A recurring dream keeps haunting Hermione. Every night she dreams about a night that she has forgotten. A mystery man's love for her is one that she probably wished she had forgotten forever.

Words: 955
Chapters: 1
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This is a story about a Death Eater child who doesn't want to follow her parents path. Snape will adopt her later. But first she tells about her life before the adoption and her friends Draco Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Pansy Parkinson and Ginny Weasley.

Words: 1,825
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Gingersnapes by fringe lily
11/30/2004

Students keep catching fire in Snape's classes. What is going on? Who is behind it? And what will Snape do?

Words: 558
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It is the eve of Harry's 17th birthday and he is still trying to come to terms with the death of Albus Dumbledore. Feeling cut off from the wizarding world and abandoned by his friends, he receives an approach that is neither sought nor desired. Soon he comes to realise that dying may be the best way to escape the clutches of Lord Voldemort. My take on book 7 where some unlikely alliances are forged and help is provided from some unexpected quarters.

Words: 7,432
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Innocence by marietsy
02/02/2006

Harry watched from the back of the courtroom as Draco Malfoy was convicted for the murder of Ronald Weasley.

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Do angels only come to tell us how life would have been without us if we will be missed when we are gone? What if each and every one of our actions has accidentally hurt someone in a way that we never intended? Is a life worth saving if it has inflicted pain on hundreds of others? Or is the continuation of that life the punishment that that person deserves? What is the greatest punishment that a guilt-ridden person could face? Bitterly, Severus Snape ruminates.

Words: 1,452
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A muggle-raised witch with a shadowy past unknown to her, and a snobby, predjudiced Pureblood girl- they were the last people you would expect to become friends, but on the eve of Voldemort's second rise, they will be thrown together in a desperate, bloody war.

Words: 589
Chapters: 1
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The real reason why Snape hates Harry before Harry even arrives at Hogwarts is hidden in the three questions that Snape asks Harry in the first Potions class.

Words: 696
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Consolation by Trinsan
07/22/2003

For all we've learned about Snape and his past, we haven't ever seen why it was that he left the Death Eaters. This is one idea.

Words: 950
Chapters: 1
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Quidditch Field by Miss Kitty
02/25/2003

With the arrival of a new student comes new danger. Will Kalinda Damia be able to protect Harry from the wizard everyone fears?

Words: 2,579
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Snape reflects on how long it has taken him to learn what Roosevelt said so well: "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." Dumbledore's death is a high price to pay for this lesson.

Words: 725
Chapters: 1
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Shades of Evil by AerinAlanna
11/29/2006

Oneshots of certain Death Eaters as seen by an associate. Starting with Bellatrix Lestrange, then probably Lucius, Narcissa, Draco, Regulus Black, and a few others, but not in that order.

Words: 748
Chapters: 1
Hits: 230