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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.

It's their seventh year at Hogwarts and Snape is in love with Lily. Only problem is that James hasn't forgotten about her either...

A short essay exploring Snape's motivations and destiny within the HP universe.

Hermione finds herself feeling sorry for Snape who has become an outcast since the events at the end of HBP. She is now of age and a full member of the Order and wants to help him with his spying duties. But Snape won't accept Hermione's help or friendship. But their paths keep crossing. AU in the sense that it ignores DH.

Harry and Ron get into an enormous row and wind up in detention with each other. Will they be able to take back their vicious accusations? AU; seventh year; no ships.

Harry takes his forty year old son, the ghost of Draco Malfoy, and his friends to the park to play baseball. But will an all Death Eater team foil his plans? Sequal to "Happiness is Just a Daddy Away!" and "Harry Potter and the Magical Cheese Cracker."

Once every ten years, the wizarding world goes to Ludlow Fair. The year is 1979, and times are changing. A pureblood-sympathesiser has been elected Minister of Magic, Sirius is training as an engineer, and Peter's a salesman. Remus and James are struggling to find work. Based on the poem 'The Lads in Their Hundreds' by AE Housman, the story takes a fresh look at the relationships of Lily and James, and at Severus Snape.

"Remember the tinman found he had what he thought he lacked." Harry gives Snape a lesson in emotional expression. (SLASH: HP/SS)

What do you do when everything around you crumbles? When the whole world is pressing down on you? How do you handle the weight of the nothing thats now around you? Harry decides his path isn't the one Dumbledore laid out for him. Instead it's one that would horrify most people if they knew. How does Hermione fit in? What a wicked web we weave, when we practice to deceive...Can a Dark! Harry ever let himself love again? Will he die first? Only time can tell...

This story was inspired by a picture that appeared recently on one of my lists. Severus Snape comes across his well worn, well loved teddy bear, Cuddles.

"He looked down, unaware that one look could change the course of his life forever... "``What can a mysterious stranger do to Hogwarts? A lot.

Was Dumbledore really stupid to trust Snape? HALF BLOOD PRINCE COMPLIANT

"I do not believe, in all possibility, that there could have been a relationship between Professor Snape and Harry's mother."

Severus Snape recalls previous memories, best left to rest. But who can blame him for his thoughts about Hermione, and her 'betrayal'? His actions, drastic, yes, but to him necessary. SNAPE/HERMI, somewhat. Sev is NOT dead, don't worry.

He wants to know who she is loyal to. But what happens if he doesn't like the answer?

Finishing a crossword is a lot harder than it looks, and James finds that out the hard way.

A look at one of Snape's worst memories that Harry saw, and we're not talking about the James one in the Pensieve.

Snape's in love with McGonagall, McGonagall's in love with a student. Meanwhile, Draco is hatching crazy plots, his ultimate mean being attaining pleasure from Harry Potter. More love triangles than can be counted.

The Media never lies: agreed? I don't think so... Sometimes the lies published in the tabloids can seem so plausible; believable even; and these lies can then become convincingly like the truth if you are searching for someone to blame. Natural human responses will tell us this much as we have all blamed someone unfairly at some point in our lives. But what happens to the people on the receiving end of the false accusations? And what are the consequences when those affected are driven away by those who they once counted as friends? Sometimes, only when the physical pain is starting to fade do the deeper scars begin to reveal themselves. And some scars take a long time to heal.

Spoilers for DH. An alternate ending to Snape's story line, picking up where DH left off. Short one-shot.

The trauma of war finally catches up with Severus Snape. Who can help him?