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When Severus Snape encounters a boggart, what is it that he sees? His greatest fear. Will it be something amusing or scary, complicated or simple? After all he has a lot to choose from...

When Snape's patience has been tested to the end, he must come to terms with the daughter he never knew, whos life he hasn't been a part of until now. AU for OotP. Features Snape, his daughter, the trio, Remus and Sirius.

"There she was, on the other side of the Hall. She was leaning back in her seat and staring up at the sunny sky wistfully. The light made her hair shine gloriously, looking almost golden. I stared at her, completely under her spell. "

AU PoA. After a tense search throughout the castle of Hogwarts for the Potters' betrayer, Potions Master Severus Snape returns to the Great Hall, hoping to find some measure of peace . . .

Severus Snape isn't happy when Remus Lupin arrives to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. He remembers how it used to be like during their school days... a companion piece to Regrets, but it also works independently. A view inside Severus Snape's head.

The Dark Mark burns and a man's fate is sealed. Severus Snape prepared to return to the Dark Lord.

In which a strange woman unknown to Harry appears and causes quite a turn of events unlike anything we have seen before.

‘Harry moved his eyes along the table, to the place where Snape sat. Was he imagining it, or were Snape’s eyes flickering towards Lupin more often than was natural?’ (PoA p. 119 Bloomsbury) SS/RL Slash. Post OotP, a one shot.

Persuaded to attend Hogwarts at least for the fall semester, Harry will find out that an old adversary's surprising past has a definite effect on his present. He returns to find many changes to the castle he once enjoyed: Hallways deserted, desolate, and almost entirely devoid of students A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who looks as fragile as a china doll--and is anything but A disgruntled barrister Letters left for him in Dumbledore's will. Along his way, he will discover an astounding new weapon that will help him to destroy the final remaining Horcrux. A Snape-Outside Canon romance is part of backstory, but is secondary to the plot.

"...there will be NO chapter called 'Lupin’s Papers' in book six, nor will there be chapters entitled 'Pettigrew’s Pamphlets,' 'Sirius’s Circulars' or 'the Pocket Crosswords of Severus Snape'." - JKRowling.com

Five members of the Order are forced to abandon the merciful ways of Dumbledore in order to extract vital information and must deal with the consequences.

Sequel to A Closer Look In The Snake Nest. Draco's Initiation as a Death Eater - and all the events that followed - have shaken up Draco, Lucius, Severus and Voldemort. More people are added to the previously restricted group of whom the main characters cared about. Consequently, there shall be conflict resolution, as well as struggling for power and control; this time, however, they seek such things over themselves instead of others. Unnecessary to say that this contains unhealthy doses of Slash and Angst.``Feels too much like its prequel? Fine. *leans in to whisper secretively* There's Harry in it.

While looking through Snape's posessions after the war, Harry finds something that will once more radically alter his view of the man that loved his mother. But also to be altered is how he views the story of the marauders, the story of the betrayal. For from the other side of the grave echoes an unheard voice, telling a story of trust that was destroyed and of blind, furious revenge.

Sometimes the only hope is hope itself.

There is a crucial moment in a boy?s life when he must make a choice: [sequel to "Casus"]

Snape thinks he's a Grand Master at chess, when Lupin challenges him to a game and a bet on the side.

Before the Dark Days. MWPP First Year. Follow the journey of an ordinary young man, with a not so ordinary furry little problem, through his first year at Hogwarts. Please Read & Review.

Snape would have had a different life but for one man's decision years ago. Sirius has always had an easy life, but is about to discover that things were never as they seemed.

A pair of eyes can mean a lot of things to someone. A pair of bright green eyes bring up some painful reminders of a tormented past to Snape. With the help of Sirius Black, can Snape sort out his feelings and come to terms with himself and a pair of green eyes?

A trap has been set for Harry, but manages to catch Ginny first. In trying to save Ron's sister, Harry gets himself into more trouble than he can handle. (Written before HBP)

Severus Snape is in a tremendous hurry. But where is he rushing of like a maniac? Nothing mattering to him except getting there on time.

Sirius, James, Peter and Remus decide to play a practical joke on Snape. However, when a key ingredient is changed, their whole plan changes! Read on to find out more!

A look at how magic functions within the Potterverse, with specific focus on Sectumsempra and Crucio.

Severus Snape stands, quite literally, on the precipice between heaven and hell when he finds himself greeted by Albus Dumbledore--and his thoughts on life, love, and Lily.

The dangers of a bottle of firewhiskey, two very snarky men, and an few unsuspecting, almost-innocent bystanders.

Harry comes back to Hogwarts five years after graduation. He and Severus have a reunion of sorts.

Every story has a beginning. For the tale of the boy-who-lived, the beginning is not in the prophecy, but in the lives of a generation before him. The same generation James Potter, Lily Evans, Peter Pettigrew, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin, among many other figure-heads belonged to.

Parvati has found the love of her lifetime. Will she get him or will he be the one who got away?

"To be honest, Lucius, I was admiring the irony of you and me sitting here and celebrating together. Who would have thought we'd ever find ourselves in a position to show our faces in public again?"

This is a short story about Severus Snape. His life, how he feels about his position at Hogwarts, and the unresolved events in his past that have made him what he is today. Snape fans dig in!

Some say there is a fine line between love and hate, and in a person as bitter as Severus Snape, I'd say it's probably true. This is a story of Severus's unrequited love for Remus Lupin, and why it turned to hate. Slash, but no sex. AU as it takes place in Harry's 6th year.

Harry is in danger. There are only two people who can save him. Two people who hate each other, Sirius and Snape. Can they put their differences aside and save Harry?

After having failed to kill Dumbledore, Draco seems out of options. Set directly after HBP.

Harry Potter finds out he owns something special. What is it and what does he do with it? Independent Harry, slight Dumbledore and Hermione bashing, Snarky Snape.

Why is Draco Snape’s favourite pupil? Maybe Snape’s feeling guilty. Maybe Snape has something to hide.

One fine summer morning, two unlikely creatures meet each other by the side of the Lake Hogwarts, sharing a few happy moments together. Despite the deep bond they share, circumstances force them apart, leaving them to dream of a better future. Possible squick factor,

Severus Snape's years as a young Death Eater. The painful mix of idealism and obligation that made him join--and that finally made him leave. His journey to the Heart of Darkness... and beyond. *Violence, Angst, Slash, Het*

It's Hermione and Snape! In a different fashion! Sorry, but I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to give away the plot.

Another sweet and fluffy fic. The battle is over and done to most but for four people it's still a fight for life. Namely, Draco Malfoy. Will our heroes be in time to rescue the lovely and loveable Slytherin?

Is Lupin really all that he seems? Or did he make his living the old-fashioned way, by snake-oil and flim-flam artistry?

Hermione decides she needs a new 'do. Or, what does Snape do on his summers off?

Two of the professors think they're hexed, but is it all true? Or have they really fallen for each other? MM/SS.

Remus and Severus at the last battle.

Harry Potter finds some hidden truths about his identity when a visitor shocks him with revelations.

Wry!Harry, Mix-Master DJ Snape (yo), and Disco King!Voldemort all meet in the Forbidden Forest and get down with their bad selves. Also features gratuitous bird snogging and Lucius Malfoy's "Schnooglekins".

After the events in HBP, Severus Snape finds himself alone in the house at Spinner's End, with memories of a certain Daft Olde Coote.

Lucius Malfoy is used to getting what he wants, and this night is no different.

Prophecies can be wrong, fate can be changed, and one person can change things, for better or worse. This is the story of such a person, a girl who tipped the balance between Light and Dark and changed the future of the Wizarding world. Charmed/HP crossover

You’ve come to almost believe that it’s all a result of your overactive imagination, but perhaps you've been wrong all along....

Through a twisted game of Magical Russian roulette, Remus, Severus and Sirius find themselves lost in the middle of a tropical, magical jungle, somewhere in South America. Unable to do any magic due to the jungle's supernatural properties, and over 8000km from home, the not-so-intrepid trio have to make their way back to Hogwarts, avoiding flesh-eating insects, poison-shooting flowers and a highly intelligent tribe of trap-setting Chupacabra along the way. Will they survive these perils? Will they even survive each other?

What would you do if you woke up one day suddenly a whole foot taller, and sporting completely new hair that you didn't have when you fell asleep? Severitus Challenge warning... NO SLASH!

Hogwarts' shadows seem to fall more darkly this year. Is this the lingering guilt surrounding the fate of Sirius Black? Or are the shadows cast by long guarded secrets threatening to step into the light? Who is spying on who? Nobody can deny there is that chill down their spine, that distinct feeling of being watched... (Major characters - Snape, Harry, Lupin, Dumbledore.)

Snape is called to a Death Eater meeting only to find that he must, once again, play the hero.

Sometimes we learn things about people in the unlikeliest of places when we're not really trying.

A love story told from the point of view of the third student to the left. SS/HG

What would have happened if Voldemort hadn't tried to kill Harry? Nexus (a character of my twisted little mind) offers him that chance...

Marauders and marijuana. Innuendo. Wacky verbal hijinx (and a weensy bit of angst). Even members of other houses are oddly friendly under the influence! (Sirius/Remus preslash, Sirius/James flirting.)

Severus Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange -- so alike, yet so very different. During a deatheater celebration, Severus and Bellatrix discuss Sirius' death.

How do you defeat a Dark Wizard? By thinking like one, of course - and how do you think like one? You become one. Two children were selected from the flock that year, by the slim, once beautiful hand of a woman who had also once been Tom Riddle's lover...

Tired of SexGod!Snape? Idyllic is a story of Mrs. Rebekah Snape, a woman trapped between her past and her future, trying to unravel the hatred that she's kept for all these years.

Bad luck is the reason Ginny is in this situation in the first place.

One shot of LE/SS and SB/SS.

Severus Snape, being the tortured soul that he is, can't sleep. What happens when, in the middle of the night, he runs into the very person who's been keeping him awake? SS/HG A short fic that brings them together!

(Addition to the "Stuck in a Room with You" series.) Although everyone is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, the one with the earmuffs will prevail! Also featuring a house made of chocolate.

What has Neville done? Where is Snape? Why is everybody color-coded? Let's all say it together, "POOR NEVILLE!"

Another take on Severus Snape’s defection from the Dark Lord. Songfic (don’t worry, mostly fic and only little song, and only in the first chapter). Warning: attempted suicide.

A newborn child is a blank canvas. Severus Snape did not come into the world as an evil creation, he was born in his father’s image and twisted, over time, into the evil, achingly sad being he is today. This is his story.

And everything changed when Snape realised that she'd left tearstains on his cloak.

Snape likes to watch...``Set in the last days of OOTP. SS POV. ``SS makes a lot more sense as seen through the eyes of Le Carre. He's still a git, though.

Lucius Malfoy's "favorite charity" goes to Hogwarts a year before Harry Potter and Draco. What life was like at the school then.

Hermione Granger has started her seventh and final year at Hogwarts. She has lost her parents and, as the boys get older, slowly lost them. Can someone, in both the past and her present, help her?

Even after the defeat of the Dark Lord, dangers are plentiful in the wizarding world, especially for those who helped to craft his downfall. Forced proximity fosters an unlikely relationship as the aftermath of the war rages on. HGSS

Choices. It's a part of growing up. They aren't always easy to make and the consequences can bring you down paths you never would have imagined. Can the bonds of friendship survive? Can love continue to grow when each day seems darker with rumors of war on the horizon?

So what happened when Sirius told Severus about how to get past the Whomping Willow? And what happened once they got caught? "Dumbledore's eyes had lost their customary twinkle as he contemplated the three boys in front of him. Sirius Black sat rigidly, ramrod straight, holding on to the arms of the chair with white-knuckled hands, looking everywhere but into the eyes of the Headmaster. Next to him, his best friend James sat dejectedly, head in hands..."

Harry just wants to be a normal teenager, but it seems he can't even die normally. So what's a fifteen-year-old wizard to do when he suddenly finds himself as an incorporeal spirit no one else can see or hear except his least favorite Potions Master?

There is a dark secret no one knows about the phoenix. No one save Severus Snape, but no one listens.

A simple letter leaves James in complete inner turmoil; he tries to somehow find serenity.

A short ficlet. Harry is in Edinburgh and drunk, he hates Snape, and he tries to explain why. Or why not, as the case may be.

A slashy AU: London, early 1900’s. Severus is a detective with a dark past which (surprise, surprise) includes misguided allegiance to a Tom Riddle. Years have passed, and just when he was about to put it all behind him a certain Mr. Harry Potter walks into his office. Harry claims Riddle has escaped from jail and is after his blood for reasons unknown. But is Riddle really gunning for Potter or is that just an excuse to get what he really wants? And there’s something not quite so innocent about Harry...

Love is a beautiful poison, and the most insidious. Amid casualties of war, the ties formed in childhood continue to be binding. Snape struggles with regret and the realization that the harshest betrayals are often those committed against one's own soul.

Hermione finds an abandoned woollen blanket in the Shrieking Shack and takes it for her own.

A passion one can't control, an addictive affair... to what lengths can desire and love take a person?

Severus Snape and Harry Potter are trapped together in a collapsed secret passageway behind the fourth floor mirror. They are forced to see sides of themselves and each other that they hadn’t thought possible.

This is a Harry Potter/Degrassi crossover. I thought it might be kinda fun (shrug). There's really no plot. I'm just making it up as I go along.

He coldly regards their affair as a casual convenience, but she is nevertheless entranced. There can be no happy ending. Dark OC/Snape story, told in three voices.

Potions master Severus Snape may be a bit of an enigma, but Hermione Granger is prepared to risk everything to crack him -- human lives depend on it. A story of deception, passion, and the ultimate guessing game.

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman, but she was another man. [Ginny/Luna, set during OotP.]

"Your problem is that you still haven't forgiven yourself. Without that ... how can you expect us to do so?" In the days after Voldemort's return, Christmas Eve brings a moment of reflection for a solitary soul, and an unexpected empathy from one of the least likely individuals.

Dumbledore goes to the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to make a small request

Minerva hasn't been able to heal the grief inside her and Harry and Ginny are having their first child. But what if a certain deceased returns in a way that will push Minerva to the brink? ADMM with a twist!

How on earth did Lucius Malfoy get himself on the Slytherin Quidditch team? Find out in this short silliness, featuring Snape, Black and - beware - Narcissa! Marauder time, sixth year. A spin-off from Dramatis Personae.

One-shot spoof. Parents of Muggle-born witches and wizards are becoming more and more reluctant to simply send their children off to an unknown boarding school sight unseen. And so it was that on one fine morning a group of parents found themselves assembling at the gate for an introductory tour of Hogwarts.

The Marauders are at it again, no I didn't mean it like that! Oh never mind, they've got another plan in mind to humiliate the king of grease...but what happens when the king finds out about it first...with a little help from someone, Wormtail haters are welcome here>>

A trip through Marauder era and into Harry Potter's time by a misunderstood boy is quite devastating. Not your typical idea of Severus Snape's life. Who knew he was once as innocent, and maybe more innocent than the famous hero, Harry Potter?

Blaise Zabini becomes a victim of Lord Voldemort's cruelty and torment. Faced with nightmares of her torture, suicide seems like the only way out to the pain-wracked teenager, but can Severus Snape find a way change her mind?

Hermione brings home a surprise that will change Severus' life.

Although not written in the style of the great J.K. Rowling, "The Sky is Black" attempts to bring the reader back to a time of darkness. It portrays Severus Snape in his prime, and gives a glimpse of the horrors of those dark times underneath, well, you know who. In some parts it is written kind of like a poem, so if something looks odd at first glance, try reading it out loud.

The Golden Trio find the Hogwarts Pillar of Storage and unexpected surprises inside.

Some fall, others are pushed. A Draco-centric story, initially DM/SS, eventually DM/HP.