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Harry has been having bad dreams again. This time, however, it is not Voldemort's mind he seems to be sharing: it is Snape's. Voldemort has discovered that Snape is a traitor and is holding him captive. Only Harry, with the help of Hermione, can help him... if they wish to.... Contains violence. *After OoTP; contains spoilers*.

It all begins with an innocent Quidditch exhibition that brings four seventeen-year-old Canadian students to Hogwarts. But as time progresses, strange things start to happen, and the four find themselves stuck in a desperate situation, a situation to which they are the key to solving. Lots of action and drama in upcoming chapters.

A collection of letters from Lily to Harry written in Godric's Hollow. In them Harry finds out who his parents really were.

Ginny's back at Grimmauld Place for the summer, where her mother, who's trying to protect her, is withholding information she desperately wants. Narcissa Malfoy, meanwhile, is up to no good and wants Draco out of her way, so she's shipped him off to Snape. Our favorite professor, left choiceless in the matter, consulted with Dumbledore about the dangers of this arrangement. Knowing that a close watch would need to be kept on the young Slytherin, the Headmaster decided that it would be best if Draco spent the summer...where else?...at Grimmauld Place.

A Severus Snape Biography - one that explores his personality and shows how he grew from being an adorable little boy into an incorrigible bastard. Lots of Voldemort and plenty of things going on in Sevvy's mind.

Things have changed for both Severus Snape and Harry Potter.

Draco Malfoy never knew that when his father died, he'd turn out the way he did. He thought he'd turn out better. And he spent hours, or what seemed like hours, gazing at the bloody stars and wondering what it'd be like if he died tomorrow.

A vampire slayer is hired to teach defense against the dark arts. Severus is furious, a muggle woman hired for such an important task? Tension is high and Severus may have bitten off a little more than he can chew. Will he and the rest of the school be able to handle doing things the slayer’s way?

'Harry just wanted to be normal in at least *one* thing, and really, he didn’t think it was too much to ask.' (HP/SS, slash)

SS/HG, Dr/GW, RW/BZ (in this story Blaise is a GIRL) tangled in a web of lust & loathe, romance is bittersweet - love & could there ever be trust? WARNINGS (I don't write disturbing things, but it's better to warn you anyway, just in case): Mental/emotional torture, one attempted rape and some medium violence. COMPLETED/EDITED/EPILOGUE ADDED -- A/U -- started after the release of GoF, contains some OotP, most everything after is disregarded in order to preserve the ongoing story.

Is it possible to love without exclusion? With all his best friends pairing up together, Harry is practically alone. As he explores deeper into the depths of his own heart, he wonders this very question - and wonders if he ever will find an answer.``It's going to take a lot more than a birthday party, an English class, and a game of Parcheesi to find the answers - or perhaps they're right under his nose...

Imagine if Severus Snape were half dementor. It would certainly explain the sallow skin. Then, imagine he were to fall in love with one Sirius Black. This is the story of his life, from birth to middle age.

True love, true hate, true pranks and true Marauders. Just another year- but this is 5th year and the boys (and sometimes the girls) need to grow up a little. Are 'love' and 'hate' just words, or can they be something else?

Peregrin Hooch-- also known as Hogwarts' Flying Instructor-- is depressed and blaming herself after a student's death. Albus Dumbledore sends an unlikely fellow teacher to comfort her... but even he can't predict what will happen when you add Hagrid's alcohol to the mix. Sex! Poker! Rain! Drinking! Snape and Hooch being idiots! What more can you ask?

When detention with Snape goes awry for Hermione, Ron takes drastic action. A parody of Lerner & Loewe's musical "My Fair Lady."

How long can an author spend without needling Sev? Not much, in my case...

What happens when your closest friends become your worst enemies and your worst enemies become your closest friends? What happens when everything you thought was so wrong starts to feel so right? What do you do when you’re thrown into a world of your deepest, darkest desires? This and more in a Hermione/Snape fic.

So... you've stumbled across Snape's diary... do you dare read it? Open the pages and discover what really goes in inside the mysterious minds of everyone's favourite Potions Master.

In which Severus Snape spends the last moments of his life doing what he does best.

When the young Severus Snape is caught with a secret, experimental potion, he is obliged to make a deal with James Potter that he will later come to regret...

Post-OotP. Sixth year Gryffindors are having a DADA lesson with... Snape? A fateful mistake with the Wolfsbane potion brings some unexpected consequences, like heroic Snape, puzzled Pomfrey, and terrified Trio, and some not-so-unexpected, like twinkle-eyed Dumbledore, a mysterious illness, and the best pairing possible after OotP.``A RL/SS FQF Response.

Hogwarts is having a difficult time adjusting to the new Muggle English teacher Daniel Deschamps. Everyone that is, save Severus Snape.

Hurricane Ivan has knocked out Muggle "power" in Alabama. Severus Snape has a cousin who lives in Kentucky with a Muggle-born friend who has parents in BirmingHAM. Blood is thicker than pumpkin juice, and Snape is a powerful wizard with experience going undercover and seeming to be what he possibly is not.

Lupin would have recognized Snape anywhere, but it was still a shock to see him in the Muggle hospital tent.

For one week in summer Harry disappears without trace. When he comes back he claims to have no memory. But something happened and it changed him. It remains to be seen if for the better or the worse.

Have you ever wondered what happened when Lockhart asked our dear Potions Professor to be his 'assistant'?

If you've seen the Breakfast Club, you have the general idea, but this is Hogwarts style! With some good D/G, H/LL, MB/AG, and of course boy!Blaise. Yes, there is an OC, but she's okay. Come and read, about Hogwarts teen angst. If you're lucky, you may even see dancing Slytherins!

Sequel to "In The Cold Light Of Morning." Hermione has accepted Severus' proposal of marriage and the two of them embark upon the troubled waters of marriage planning and preparing for their life together. SSHG.

As Voldemort takes his final steps towards immortality, Harry Potter knows it will take more than luck to destroy the four remaining Horcruxes. Post-HBP, Seventh Year Fic.

Sequel to "Married Alive," Azazello’s take on the Marriage Law Challenge. Both stories are now AU. Hooboy, are they AU!

When Neville makes a mistake on one of his potions, only Snape is unaffected by the results. Can he keep everyone's pants on - literally - until the effects wear off?

Severus Snape saved Hermione Granger from the desolation of the battlefield after the final fight with Voldemort. Now, five years later, Hermione wants to know why and she is determined to find out.

There's a spy in Harry's class and Snape has to find out who before everyone is put in danger. Sometimes it's who you suspect the least. Sometimes it's who you suspect the most.

Alone and friendless for most of his eleven years, Severus starts at a new school with pessimistic expectations, until Remus, an open, soft-spoken boy, befriends him. With the odds piling up against them, Severus needs to understand the intricacies of human``relationships, or risk driving Remus away. Follow Severus and Remus on their journey through butterflies, missing cats, chocolates, bully-boys and a friendship that seems doomed to fail from the start.

Harry's searching for the secrets of his family history and gaining new powers all the while. With Snape and Neville beside him, can he uncover the secrets and destroy Voldemort?

Time has passed, but Transfigurations exams are still a bane to ``Snape, Malfoy and the others, but they\\\'ve got a plan.... No sheep were harmed ``in the making of this story. Just chocolate chip cookies.

"One by one, my leaves will fall. One by one, my tales are told." Severus Snape is given an assignment by his father to brush up on his grammar and writing in general: he is given a journal. It turns into a book of his young life.

Harry is having a bad summer at the end of his fifth year. A few long walks lead to some interesting discoveries about his past.

The year is 1971 and Severus Snape is starting his first year at Hogwarts, determined to be the most wonderfully brilliant and stoic student the school has ever had despite the best efforts of his bizarre aunt. Lily Evans is also starting her first year at Hogwarts, determined to do well and make her parents proud, despite the best efforts of her well-meaning but insanely mischevious House-mates. No matter what the future has in store for the class of 1978, these are the forever golden days (no matter what Severus may continually claim). These are the days of wands and roses.

After a severe week of Death Eater meetings, Severus is found by Hermione and gives her a promise he is afraid he may not be able to keep. AU since HBP and OotP.

After being injured in the battle at the Department of Mysteries, Hermione is recovering in the hospital wing of Hogwarts. Who is the mysterious apothecary who visits her every night with a new batch of potions?

She's a seventh year prodigy, the inventor of the MedSeven, a year older than Harry Potter and the rest of the gang. Kaida Ryu is only interested in making lives easier and incorporating muggle ideas into the wizarding world, one magical device at a time. The Dark Angel with black wings has a darker secret, however, one that involves losing innocence to an elder as a family rite of passage. She chooses someone who would rather rejoin the Dark Lord. (Revamped for inclusion of Half-Blood Prince, obvious AU)

Harry is faced with the terrible reality that he alone can defeat Voldemort, a responsibility he shoulders courageously. What happens when startling events begin to take place and new faces appear possessing secrets that hold the key to not only Voldemort’s weaknesses, but to Harry’s future? Coming of age has more in store for Harry than he ever thought possible. Things become more overwhelming than he could ever imagine as secrets begin to unravel, new and old enemies are met, and loyalties are tied. While his fate grows foggier, his choices become increasingly more difficult to make. He realizes that everyone around him is faced with the same decision, to choose between what is right, and what is easy. What will Harry choose?

This is a world where Voldemort is King. A world where two people have lost everything. In an instant it was done. The Dark Mark was hideous on her flesh, marking the satiny skin of her forearm forever more. Branding her a demon, a monster, but be there no mistake that in my eyes she will always be an angel, going down among the devils because there is no Heaven anymore.

What if one day you woke up to realize thateverything you'd been told about your marriage was a lie? To realize that your own family wasn't what you thought they were? To be torn between right and wrong; love and hate? Ariadne has never had to deal with any of these problems until now, and her world is spinning widly out of control. How long can she hide the truth beneath a blanket of love?

When Harry returns to Grimmauld Place, what will he find waiting for him this time? Did a dream about an infamous Voldemort really happen? And why is Harry once again seeing and hearing things that no one else can? What will it take to pull Harry out of the emotional torture being placed on him, and how far will they go to save him? Begins summer after fifth year and continues into sixth year.

What led up to the decision to create the map in the first place? How exactly did they do it? What did they do with it? How did it end up in Filch's drawer?

Set directly after the last chapter of Half-Blood Prince and takes it a little further. While Harry stays behind next to Dumbledore's tomb, he meets someone and realises some things concerning the night the professor died. But how does his new acquaintance fit into all this and what is her purpose in meeting him?

Silly ships are spoofed in an even sillier ficlet. - ``“No,” he hissed. “I have just returned from the Dark Lord. I am in severe pain from the affereffects of the Crucio curse. You will tend to my injuries,” he said, stripping off his clothes.``“Fine,” she said, admiring his thin, paper white body.

"Remus sometimes says how frightening it is that all it takes is one bad week to utterly destroy your world, but I think that he knows better than that. He knows that the events of that week had been in the works for years, had their beginning as far back as our fourth year. It's not even surprising that everything came to a head at once. The events of that week could never have happened one by one. Our lives were too tightly intertwined for isolated tragedies, much less deaths. We couldn't have stopped it then. We were already too different from the way than we looked through the eyes of those that we loved best. What happened was inescapable."

Gilderoy has become the new Whore of England, and has set his sights on Snape to be his new boy toy. Will he win the Hunt, or will Snape elude him in the process? SLASH - Lockhart/Snape.

Lupin tells Black that he's spent a night with Snape. Which leads to confusion, misunderstandings, surprising statements and... more. Snape/Lupin - fluffy slash, one-shot.

Severus Snape's best friend returns to teach at Hogwarts-- YES, HE HAS FRIENDS. Keep your smart-aleck comments to yourself! Some of the things that ensue: green and silver body paint, year-long chess games, action, fun, insanity for all ages! A few OCs, and a side of Severus Snape you may never have seen. Sarcasm, arguments, and reminisces about Lily abound. Voila.

This is about Snape's past. He met a girl, he fell in love and lost her. Will she ever come back? In this chapter, Snape meets his love.

We know that Severus Snape graduated from Slytherin, Hogwarts. We know that he knew much of the Dark Arts even then. And we know that he joined the Dark Lord. We know that he finally turned to Dumbledore. But have you ever wondered why? This is the story of Severus Snape and his loyalties. This story follows a young man full of promise, and what choices he makes. This is a story of Darkness and Light. This is a story of what, how, and why. This is a story of Severus Snape.

Response to challenge #80 on blooddance.com. Snape’s mum comes back from Japan after an interesting vision that will change Severus’ life, as well as the life of one Harry Potter. Oneshot.

What made Dumbledore trust Snape? Why is Snape the bastard he is? What scares Snape so badly that he wishes to die to avoid it? Can love bloom from hate? Jolee is scared of her past and runs from the mistakes she once made. Will she make the same mistake twice?

An irreversible dark charm is placed on Severus Snape. But without his memory, how will he survive? A Snape-Hermione friendship story, with Harry thrown in along the way.

When Hermione accepts an invitation to study Alchemy at Hogwarts during the summer, she becomes entangled in much larger affairs -- including Professor Snape's painful and dangerous return to Voldemort. A Snape-Hermione mentorship story, post-GoF.

Harry is serving a detention with Snape, but when he accidently lets slip how he feels for Snape, how will he deal with the consequences? More importantly, how will Snape react? Slash.

When Sirius's attempt to meddle in Remus's and Severus's love-affair goes awry, he decides it's high time he drop out of Hogwarts. A parody of Jim Jacobs's and Warren Casey's musical "Grease."

Even the Dark Lord was amazed upon watching the effects of an atom bomb. The vast power displayed before him held a beauty so incredible, so horrifyingly marvellous, it made his chest hurt and his eyes water – as he wiped the moisture from his eyes, he realised with astonishment that he was crying.

I always expected to be the first one to go. As it happened, I am the last to stay. Perhaps it is because I should be the one to witness a world without Harry Potter.

Hermione is a Death Eater, but she isn't brainwashed, and she isn't 'evil'. Her secret is found out, and she is taken to a house of one loyal to the Light. Here, Hermione reflects on past actions, remembers her beloved, and slowly loses any hope of rescue.

Two very different members of the Order of the Phoenix must work with each other. Set during OotP.

Harry James Potter, age 7, accidentaly Apparates to a house in which he lived as a baby. There, far from the Dursleys' influence, his intelligence arises and helps him understand the nature of magic and the uses it can have, while his disappearance turns the Magical World upside down. How will be Harry's comeback to the world in which he was born?

Speculative biography for Severus Snape: family, character, skills.... The first 2/3 of The Potions Master's Life may be read as a work to itself although it was written in response to the author's Brave New World (at Schnoogle) or at the author's web site. ````As we have little info on Snape's background to date -- and the factual info I have included does not contradict canon -- I am labelling this as "speculative" rather than AU.````Chapter 1 Summary: In which we meet young Severus Snape and some of his family.

Hogwarts in an alternate universe, where everyone is present, but not quite the same....

What to do if four of the most (un)favoured characters are still single? Quite simple: you put them in a matchmaking-show.

Draco and Hermione's daughter asks Professor Snape a few questions about why her parents are always together. She learns what really happened during their time at Hogwarts.

(Hints of Child Abuse) First Year, AU in Potions class. Snape grasps what he otherwise would have missed. Looks may -not- be deceiving, but in a different way than he had even considered...

Severus Snape didn't trust Sirius Black, yet he entered the Shrieking Shack all the same. What was it that Black said that made Snape enter the tunnel? The Headmaster interviews those involved and discovers some uncomfortable truths during his investigation of the incident.

Voldemort has planned something particularly nasty, something that Severus highly disapproves of. Remus is shocked, Severus is protective, and Dumbledore has plans.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from the 'Prince's' point of view. Snape has a hang-over, an unwelcome task and a new job.

The night is *full* of surprises!``Severus takes a walk after a long day seeking comfort... but gets a surprise he had never expected. Implied/shocking romance, as well as some interesting twists.

A dark boy watches a bright girl through the grass and wonders why she can't be with him.

Prof. Snape helps Ms. Granger take possession of a legacy, but before either of them can enjoy it, there's the little matter of a couple of Unbreakable Vows to deal with.

Is Snape evil? I don't think so. Apart from it being an awful letdown, it would also mean that JKR is a sloppy writer. Is Snape good? Well, he has just cast an Unforgivable Curse, and we all know what that does to your soul, so far from me to go and claim he's all sweet and nice and so misunderstood. But maybe he needn't be either of those. Here is my theory for Snape's behaviour in HBP, in a long (but hopefully not dry) essay with plenty of canon reference :-).

Severus Snape had already made his commitment to the Death Eaters when Lily Evans arrived at his door--a complication he hadn't expected, a temptation he almost couldn't resist.

Severus Snape is alone in his dungeons when memories of the only woman he had ever loved come flooding to him. A Lily/Snape ficlet with a twist that is rarely (if ever) seen.

It started with the cloaked figure in the window...watching. From there Hermione learns there is no black and white in a war, only shades of gray and the Dark Angel that comes to her rescue...or does he?

What do you get when you mix Snape, Hermione, a pair of tight hot pink leather pants, a spoon and a really really big hole? Hermione doesn't want to believe it either, but there is no escape - and there is no denying the inevitable.

George and Alicia dated once. It\'s Fred and Angelina\'s wedding and old feelings are surfacing. What part do Quidditch analogies and Snape in tennis shorts play in this? Find out. G/Al

Lily Evans and Hestia Jones make a bet--about Severus Snape. Marauders school years.

Select one Tarot-card-wielding Draco Malfoy. Add in the Dark Lord's bane, the irritable Potions professor, the youngest Weasley child, and the werewolf going through a mid-life crisis. Stir for disaster...

“There is a tradition, a ceremony,” he explained. “Every year, the people who wish to become Death Eaters have a year to complete a task. The task is to turn a student to Voldemort’s side, and Draco has chosen you. He wishes to… break you. To make you either turn to him, or be so badly broken that you won’t care what happens to you.”

"When you let the butterfly go and it comes back, it was truly meant to be yours. It's funny though because I've never seen a person with a lovely butterfly perched upon their shoulders as if it were a parrot."

What became of Montague after Fred and George pushed him through the Vanishing Cabinet? Sometimes you have to lose your marbles in order to find your path ...

SNAPE KILLS HARRY AND ****S HERMIONE!!! Well, I think that's eye-catching and exciting enough...

Severus and Hermione find a perfect way to end a bad day.

We all know Snape hates Christmas, but what if some unknown force tried to convert him? A Dickens parody featuring Snape and three rather unusual Christmas Spirits.

What if Harry had not failed so spectacularly in Occulmency? What if Voldemort never went to the Department of Mysteries? A peek into the final battle between good and evil, wherein love ultimately triumphs over all [Non-Slash HP-SS]...

All Draco and Ginny want is a little alone time together - things don't go according to plan.

"I wonder what Dumbledore would think if he knew what his Head Girl was doing right now, Highness?" The romantic tale of Ginny and Snape. Oneshot.

Severus learns that small children can remember quite a lot.

The DADA Teachers go back for their second session with Dr. Kincaid. This time the session is full of surprises.

What happens when Snape is unable to come to school for a week? He hires a substitute! Guess who it is! It's Voldemort!

Someone is clowning around at Snape's expense, or so Snape thinks.

He made himself believe he had 'gotten over' his feelings for her, but an event brings them to the surface of Severus Snape, leaving him anything but stable. An insight into Severus' dreams and thoughts lies at your fingertips.

Young Severus Snape can't complain about leading a boring life at Hogwarts. There are mortal enemies to bring down, the Dark Arts to discover, his parents' heritage to figure out and a certain redheaded Muggle-born to avoid at all costs, all under the watchful eyes of his guardian, Alastor Moody, who is having a demanding time himself with an ex-classmate of his intent on conquering the world...