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The war against evil has been waged and won but, the price was great many were lost. What happens when Hermione unknowingly meets the person who sacrificed his life in order to save hers?

A witch from a long line of proud purebloods is sorted into Gryffindor upon her arrival at Hogwarts, but is removed by her strict father after only a week, who would rather school her himself than allow a member of his family to stay in Hogwarts in such a formidable house. She manages to escape in the summer of her forth year, but the trouble is far from over - aside from being at war with the school's troublemakers every time she turns around, Katalina Gaunt's nights are plagued by terrible dreams and frequent visits from the mysterious and secretive right-hand of a dark wizard, who is willing to go to any lengths to get what this "Dark Lord" requires, even (or especially, in his case) murder.

Snape laid down his life and his pride to bring Sirius back through the veil. Especially his pride. Sirius-is-not-entirely-dense. Antagonism, denial, embarrassing confessions, and eventual sex. Second story in the Cicatrix series. Takes place immediately following "What He Wanted to Be."

Snape's daughter returns to Hogwarts and secrets are revealed. He's turned down for DADA once again and it's because of her! Can she survive the year without stepping on her daddy's toes?

Snape is summoned by Dumbledore for “urgent business”. Little does Snape know that a new terror is about to enter his life. A new terror by the name of Calidia. This upcoming school year at Hogwarts includes an encounter with the Giant Squid, a couple of love potions, disastrous detentions, and new hairstyles for everyone.

Neacie Ruck is a sixth year at Hogwarts who just happens to have a relationship with Severus Snape, too bad Severus needs to push her away to keep her safe from He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Little does he know all the pushing he is doing is driving her right into the arms of the man he never wanted her near in the first place, Sirius Black.

What do an insomniac Gryffindor, a middle-aged werewolf and an ex-Death Eater have in common? Not much, actually. That doesn't mean they can't help each other.

Harry fights himself over who he is, and finds confidence in an unlikely source. When the relationship blossoms, Harry finds he must fight to keep what he desperately needs. PLEASE NOTE: This fic ignores most of the events of the HBP. It is set in their final year at Hogwarts, HOWEVER Draco didn't try to kill Dumbledore, Snape didn't kill him. Please also note that Snape is very OOC in this fic.

~AU slash fic~ Whilst at school, Severus Snape is bitten by a vampire, and the only one to stand by him is a Gryffindor werewolf.

Marivetta Hunter is the daughter of a Death Eater who thought that there was only a single path set before her. But in her seventh year she finds herself drawn into a silent war she wasn’t even aware was taking place. Forging an unlikely alliance with her Potions Professor, she must now choose between the path of a Death Eater and the path of a hero.

A young Sirius Black is awakened early in the morning by a terrible cry - a cry belonging to his friend, Remus Lupin. Confused and worried, Sirius rushes to his friend's side, only to discover the reason for Remus' horror. What began as a simple prank did not end that way...

This is a compilation of four humorous cookies involving AD/MM, Snape, Harry and Ron.

Snape goes existentialist and revisits his dark Death Eater past, his experiences with Lily/James/Sirius/Lupin (unintended``quasi-romantic undertones), and follows them up to the present in his``Potions class with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, etc. Is You-Know-Who``really as bad as they say? Are Lily/James as perfect as people make``out? Snape thinks not. Find out why.

Draco has some random thoughts, and a rather irritating encounter with Harry Potter. (Slight hints of Draco/Harry.)

After a hard day, Hermione Granger goes for a coffee at a small Café. However, she is not the only visitor. “She hears his snort as he reads the appalling essays. And most of all, she sees black, glittering eyes that laugh at her as if they are mocking her, but that also stare at her with interest, as though she had said something enlightening.” (HG/SS)

Years ago he broke the doll. Now he breaks her.

Harry Potter plunges headlong into a Pensieve, and in the process discovers the shocking reason exactly why Albus Dumbledore trusted Severus Snape.

You must watch what you say. You must weigh every word. Among Death Eaters, one word out of place - and you would be hurtling screaming towards destruction. Severus Snape and Narcissa Malfoy have a chat.

After Severus Snape's death, the Hogmeade mortician prepares him for burial. While doing so, he discovers Snape's thirty-year-old diary, telling the story of heart-breaking love and tragic endings that Snape is all too familiar with.

A few predictions give Severus Snape a new outlook on life.

The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Eudice Eusyram, is perfect, and now Snape is jealous! How will he get back at her? A spoof on Mary Sue fan fiction in the same mold as "Airplane!"

Harry feels as though he's been cheated out of his life, so he persuades Dumbledore and Snape to make it up to him. Features a manipulated Dumbledore, a speechless Snape, and a vaguely insane yet amusing Harry. NOT HBP compliant

She finds him at the back of a Muggle bookshop

When two lovers get caught, events take a fateful turn.... Unusual ships and a bit of romance.

Just away from Potter's prying eyes the Pensieve held some of Snape's most scarring memories. A riding accident that demands an unthinkable choice, the first brutal ride to Hogwarts, an incident with a DE's daughter that reveals Dumbledore's bias, a family tragedy for which he is blamed . . . in short, the makings of a Death Eater.

After graduation, Hermione is faced with harsh reality and unpopular choices. Will she continue her education with Snape or face the world outside Hogwarts? Post Hogwarts, eventual Hermione/Snape

What happens when two students overhear Snape and Sprout's conversation in the teachers' lounge?

Snape finds Lupin about to make a very dangerous potion, and has a choice to make.

AU fic: One of the marauders is having dreams that have started coming true. One dream shows him that he may lose not only his best friend but also his love. Can he save his lover in time or will he never have another sweet dream?``***WARNING: if you have an adversion to slash, tame or otherwise, don't read this fic. Thank you.****

Draco/Harry. Snape has given an interesting assignment that involves automatic writing...

Snape lets something slip to Hermione that he would rather keep secret. Or does he mean to tell her? What is going on? (Hermione's PoV, one-sided S/Hr. Yes, it's strange.)

Madam Pomfrey leaves the infirmary in the capable hands of three of her esteemed colleagues while she visits her ill sister. With the Quidditch season yet to begin and no lessons over the weekend, what could possibly go wrong?

Sometimes it's hard to leave the past behind.

I was told that I would write a story about Narcissa, paired with Harry. It would involve latex, and end in an embarrassing revalation. Consider the following my one shot to take out the plot bunny that was released in my head. Hope you have as much fun reading it as I did hunting it down.

An attempt at an in-character Astronomy Tower Snapefic. Stop laughing.``Tonks gets her fingers frost-burnt.

Severus Snape was trying to look on the bright side.

Snape reflects on a life with Remus Lupin and the idea of forgiveness. Slash SS/RL

There is a leak which seems likely to jeopardise the whole wizarding world. In order to assess and repair it, Snape, McGonagall, Hermione and Ron are sent to live as Muggles. The Muggles are fans of the popular Harry Potter books - little do they know the truth behind the fiction. Inspired by The Potion Master's Muse "The Witching Hour" Challenge.

A dark look into the psychology of one Harry Potter and the man who loves him. (slash)

SPOILER WARNING - Post HBP. It's seven hours after. Severus Snape is on the run and he has to make one visit which may change everything.

Sirius has difficulty adjusting to the land of the living again. (Snape/Black, Lupin/Black)

A little twist on Snape's character. Honestly what I believe to be his true self, expressed through an encounter with Hermione.

One Harry Potter has grown up in more ways than one, and the fleeing Severus Snape, who was never cowed even by Voldemort, finds himself in that dull grey horror when he is captured. Warnings: Semi-pre-slash. SSHP, though not exactly. Moderate to high swearing and violence.

When Ron and Harry decided to play a joke on Professor Snape, they had no way of knowing that it would go wrong, or rather, that it would seem to go wrong. (HG/SS)

All is well in Hermione's life, until she gets herself into detention with none other than Draco Malfoy. Another installment of the Inverted Boggart series.

Is Snape really the ‘hard-shell-soft-core’ character whom we love to describe (me, too!) in our snapefics? Maybe he mislead us… But maybe we wanted to be mislead… This is a fic about how Snape possibly COULD be, although you might won't like what you find (I don't *g*) . No fluff, no romance - solely dark.

The proximity of a Dementor is a curious thing. DarkFic.

Snape falls for a Malfoy for the second time in his life.

Fugitives from both sides of the Second War, Draco and Snape are bound together by the Vow Snape made to Narcissa Malfoy - a vow that Draco will do anything to break. With no allies, no plan, and no hope except to stay one step ahead of their pursuers, time is running out for two very different men. Oh, and don't mention the werewolves.

Snape narrates the Ministry of Magic film, How Not to Be Seen.

What happens: Nineteen Minutes, Nineteen Hours, Nineteen Days, Nineteen Weeks, Nineteen Months Later.... Well, to name a thing, Harry and Ginny rekindle their romance, Dolores Umbridge goes on trial, Lily and Snape talk in the Afterlife, Andromeda and Narcissa end their estrangement, and Harry decides to tell the world the truth about Snape, Regulus, and everything else.

There is a path we walk, between good and evil, between lightness and dark. For Severus Snape, the only thing he depends upon to walk that path is a strong pair of shoes.

The end never comes when you expect it, and sometimes even acceptance cannot save you. An SLS AU.

Revenge is soooo sweet!

Why was Snape sitting alone in the staffroom just before Lupin walked in with his first class?

The first of a very different view to the world of magic. What could have happened, what might happen and definitely filled with all kinds of unusual pairings...

A slashy send-up/spoof of The Princess Bride featuring Harry Potter and Severus Snape. Guess who's the Bride?

What poem could Mrs Snape write to Remus? A crazy idea I had, one morning!

Snape decides something in his past needs to come to an end. The rest of the faculty concur much to the smarting of his pride and privacy. Snape, however, may not be ready to purge a seventeen-year-old challenge left unmet.

While Harry Potter struggles with his fifth year of school, Severus Snape finds himself plunged back into the Dark Lord’s world with the opportunity to gain his favor. However, Severus’ life shifts abruptly when Dumbledore throws an Evocator into the spying game . The two of them are left to plot a course through the hazy world of Death Eater plots, politics and personal ambition.

[AU OotP] After his exoneration, Sirius Black discovered that picking up the pieces of his life was not exactly the easiest thing in the world, especially since his former almost-fiancée was determined to ignore his existence. Even worse, Dumbledore asked (read: blackmailed) him to teach DADA. And then a slightly mad former dark wizard with a death wish decided to rejoin the Death Eaters in order to complete his final mission: destroying the Horcruxes. As usual, Harry remains completely oblivious.

Severus is frustrated. Various implied pairings.

There are times in a man's life where he knows without a shadow of a doubt that he has come to a critical crossroads...

The Moon rises, the Moon sets, the Earth turns and you're still there. Sequel to "All Right," "All True," "All the Time" and "All at Once."

After the events of Oct. 31, 1981, Snape thinks, about his life and about the Marauders.

It could be fate that kept bringing them together. Severus Snape never liked the idea of fate. He liked the idea of love even less...

Detention with Snape turns into an exploitation of good and evil, innocence and depravity for Harry Potter. If you ever wondered what Billy Budd (by Herman Melville) and Harry Potter have in common, read this story!

As the battle with Voldermort draws to an end, Snape must come to terms with the loss of the final member of a certain bloodline.

“Well, Severus, have you come here to gloat?” she spat at him, fear and loathing playing across her face. “You have out-Slytherined us all. Playing the double agent to perfection, so it did not matter who won. Either way, you would be on the winning side."

He has eaten death, darkness and oblivion, and now only memory and madness remain. Snape is captured by Voldemort.

Lily Evans Potter never got the chance to tell Severus Snape the one thing she should have: She was sorry.

A story of mutual loving nourished by classical music and cigarette smoke.

When a woman from Snape's past returns to Hogwarts in Harry's sixth year, the Potions master is forced to reflect upon his choices and make amends for his mistakes.

Severus Snape was unnerved. He'd never had trouble with a Potions assignment before...

Days after Voldemort's defeat, Harry Potter attends the mass funerals for those fallen during the war along with the remaining survivors. While the Order says their goodbyes, Harry must come to terms with the man who protected him out of love for his mother.

A very short fic that takes place at a Death-Eater meeting; told from Snape’s POV. There is a new Death-Eater and a very grisly ending.

After the war, Severus Snape visits Lucius Malfoy.

Todmorden, W Yorks, as the likely site of Spinner's End, in light of new evidence from DH.

Not all first kisses actually happen. Some are avoided at all costs. Because some are very rude. Takes place in the same universe as The Seduction of Severus Snape.

Potter is angry, Black is sulking, Pettigrew is scurrying and Lupin is missing -- and Lily wants to know why. Post-OotP fic that explores the aftermath of the Snape/Lupin incident from Lily Evans' perspective. One-shot, complete.

After Harry sees his father in Snape's Pensieve, he manages to sneak into Umbridge's office to talk to Sirius about it. This is the story of that conversation from Sirius's perspective.

Hermione finally tells Snape how she feels.

"And though some people, most actually, would have told you to leave grown up matters in grown up hands, Severus proved that that can’t be done. Harry, in this world you have to make yourself heard, because no one will if you don’t try. Don’t let the world change who you are, Harry; there are too many of them and not enough of you. You need to remain just as you are: brave and independent. It’s the only way you will make it." After a traumatizing run-in with Snape, Harry finds solace in a friend and a lover. HP/DM.

When they were first born, they were kept in line as children by tales of a Dark Wizard whose name they were never to utter. He was there and they were afraid. As teenagers, they developed a shell of protection, a sphere to keep themselves safe. But what will shield them from their own, who will keep them safe and guide them through the thorn bushes? What will happen when they no longer fear the legends and live a life where there are no boundaries, where their desires and appetites drive them to a path of loss and greater danger. What will they do? How will they destroy themselves?

A besotted Severus Snape discovers the darker side to Lily Evans at the end of seventh year, with dramatic consequences for everyone concerned.

SERIES: Evan and Ryan Potter are the boys-who-lived, their adopted brother, Harry Potter, is seemingly unremarkable. This notion is false. Evan and Ryan were raised by doting friends Remus and Sirius. Harry is abandoned by the magical world to the abusive Dursleys. This series chronicles Harry's time in Hogwarts and along his journey to rid the world of an even greater evil than Voldemort and discover who he is. BOOK 1: Nearly killed, Harry is rescued and raised by the Vampire Slytherin and his Romani Companions. Eleven years old, Harry is invited to Hogwarts. Someone is leaching the magic holding the wards to Hogwarts. As Hogwarts suffers, the icy waters rise. And a strange life force inhabits the Castle awakening things best forgotten.

An owl post from James to... well, to whom it may concern... regarding the unfortunate result of a series of pranks. Revenge is sweet.

Marauder-time, fourth year: Black and Snape are staying at Hogwarts over Christmas. Home alone. Paranoia ensues. Featuring: James Potter and Lucius Malfoy. And what's the square root of 327 anyhow?

Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, along with their friends James Potter and Peter Pettigrew, are starting their first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But when away from classes, Remus' true identity lurks over him, complicating things. It's also hard to miss the fact that Snape and Malfoy are always arguing, but what about? This could all lead up to something interesting, and some people may be more than they seem.

Picture only this... Lockhart serenading Snape to the tune of "Rubber Ducky" in his birthday suit. Scared yet?

The Dursleys have been murdered, and only pure chance keeps Harry alive. Professor Dumbledore suddenly finds himself in need of a safe place for Harry, who is in a dangerous condition from depression and shock, and none of the usual safe houses will do for more than a month. Even Hogwarts will not be safe enough . . . ``So when Dobby suggests taking Harry to Rehweya and putting him in the care of the other Elves, Dumbledore is quick to agree even when the suggested human guardian traveling with Harry turns out to be Professor Snape. What none of them suspect is that the two humans will get more than they bargined for, including pointy ears, exceptional magical training, and a beautiful, traumatized elf . . . ``SS/FOC

Do not read if you ar opposed to sex with object/squirrels, Uncle Vernon's sex life, or naked old men. Otherwise, enjoy!

Mary-Sue Potter has come to Hogwarts, inspiring questions: Who is she? What's her secret? And why doesn't she have violet eyes? (Parody)

Why Snape's killing Dumbledore may have been A Good Thing, and Snape's new responsibility.

The Dark Lord has found a diamond in the rough, hidden away amongst the filth of Azkaban. A young girl with unusual skills that the Dark Lord may use to his advantage. But there are many questions circling 'round this girl-child, questions that not even she has found the answers to.

Ravus was expelled from Durmstrang after an incident with a male member of her class. She is placed into Hogwarts, even though she's in her seventh year and sorted into Slytherin. She doesn't belong there; she doesn't belong anywhere; she has no friends. Draco's taken a liking to her... what to do, what to do?

Snape enters Azkaban to interrogate its most infamous prisoner. Dark and gloomy.

When Severus Snape accepts an invitation to a party at Malfoy Manor, he assumes his highest priority will be to fool his friends into believing he is still the evil Death Eater they all know and love. The complication is, that in order to do this, he may have to compromise his, ahem, honour …will he, or won't he?

The trio has gotten rid of Voldemort and is now moving on with their lives. The resident bookworm is continuing to study, but who is that following her? One-shot.

Sixth year for Draco Malfoy (therefore OotP spoilers) promises to be harder than the whole rest of his life, which has been incredibly easy so far. And no longer being a spoiled brat isn't the only surprise he'll get.``Lovetta Challenge Fic.