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Glimpse into the traumatic childhood that may have made Severus Snape the Potions master we all love to hate -- including his early connections to the Death Eaters, the Malfoys, and Albus Dumbledore. Based on information from OoTP (but not a spoiler). Teaser to/adapted from the first chapters of my longer biography of Severus Snape, available at: http://www.geocities.com/asphodelandwormwood/. Enjoy!

Snape is at a loss. How is he going to tell Dumbledore that the sum of all evils is a small girl, And the hidden truth that he and Lucius covered up many years ago.

Snape muses on the road not taken, the end of love, and of his own descent into darkness and disbelief. SLASH: RL/SS and SS/ER

Neville discovers his spine, with a little unexpected help from Professor Snape. Set in fourth year, but doesn’t really have anything to do with GoF.

"I’m well-aware this desperate obsession is not exactly conductive to my continued existence. I know better than anyone that my life would be much simpler if I refused to follow the summons from one side or the other, if I stopped trying to keep on the fine line that marks the path of a spy’s survival. But, how to desert the Dark Lord, when Lucius stands by his side, his silver eyes promising the glory under a faceless mask? And how to desert Dumbledore when my position in the Light Side might be the one thing to save Lucius if all else fails?" From Severus Snape's POV, a bittersweet reflection on love and destiny. WARNING: slash.

Snape finds a new and dreadful way to discipline Harry and Draco; hard work is the least of their problems. Warning for, heh heh, dressing, of a sort. A sequel to Victory Parade, Wedding Party, and Gala Performance. Still no romantic fluff, but cooperation is coming easier.

What happened when Sirius told Snape to go to the Shrieking Shack during the full moon when they were at Hogwarts? Why did James save him? How did Remus react? ONESHOT I rewrote it to include 3000 more words worth of extra scenes and detailed description.

Sometimes you don't see until you look. Harry/Snape, Occlumency and angst.

Why did Severus Snape change sides?

Snape ponders how awful Valentine's Day can be for a lonely teacher with no real friends.

Snape reveals all his secrets in his diary. What led him to become the murderer of Dumbledore? Find out here.

Sirius explains to Dumbledore the relationship of hate between himself and Snape. Not for the faint hearted or for those who believe Sirius can be evil. Slash warning. SS/SB and SS/RL

Humorous fic: A day in the life of Hogwarts, from the perspective of a *genuine* oakwood floorboard. features Snape, Aurors, renegade Muggles, You-Know-Who and Bertha Jorkins.

The Order of the Phoenix is bound together by the things they know, bound by secrets, dreams, and nightmares. Sometimes friends and lovers, but always allies, their strength is in the knowing. Moody/Tonks, Snape/McGonagall, Lupin/Black.

One morning, Harry wakes up finding himself in a strange place. He thinks he should be in his cupboard, but instead he finds himself in a huge castle, and everyone seems to know him. Set in first year. Completely AU, partly OOC, partly obliviated!Harry.

Hogwarts has yet another new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher! Amazingly, she is NOT evil (or trying to kill Harry). However, she does have a secret, which if found out, could destroy everything she's worked for and put her in grave danger. On top of that, she's never taught a class before and Dumbledore pairs her off to work with everyone's favorite professor: Severus Snape. Can she escape Snape's suspicion and win his trust?

Hermione Granger makes a potentially fatal mistake. Severus Snape must risk her life and his in order to save her. *COMPLETE*

The battle has been won. A few days later, it's still difficult to disentangle the pain of loss from the joy of victory. But Harry feels there is a particular grave he should visit, although not a friend's one...

AU - Harry was convicted of killing Ron and Hermione. He is finally released after his innocence was proven. Harry has decided that he can no longer stand the hypocrisy of the Wizarding World and decides to leave it. Will he actually go through with it? Snape and Potter friendship. Mild violence and language warnings. There is also Sirius bashing.

Ten years after the defeat of Voldemort, Snape has an affair with an Auror, and finds the consequences may be more than he wishes to deal with.

Dumbledore sends his seventh years to Africa for a school trip. Professors Malfoy and Snape are forced to go along as chaperones – and then the trip takes a turn for the worse for one of the Professors. Friendship fic.

Pansy has a story to sell. PP/DM, DM/SS

Teenage Sirius Black finds his Potions Master's private``stash and decides to have a party in the dungeon.

When she was sixteen, she came to me, murder in her eyes and silver on her tongue. And the Dark Lord's faithful Death Eater was felled.

Like this hasn't been done to death, but a chilling reason why Snape lost loyalty to Lord Voldemort. Disturbing, you've been warned.

Sequel to "Snape, After Midnight" So...what happened to the picture?

This a dark, angsty tale, in which Severus Snape reflects on his past, and because of present failures, falls into a downward spiral of self loathing.

The year is 1981, and it is rapidly becoming a bad one for Bellatrix Lestrange. A shocking revelation is followed by shocking betrayal, and soon Bellatrix is out of her depth, and stranded from all she holds dear. She fends for herself somehow and, years later, re-enters the public arena once more with her son and companion, Antares Black. But wait - what on earth does this have to do with Harry Potter, dead at the hands of Voldemort in the year of his defeat?

MuggleNet.com Competition Entry. Write the first Chapter of Book 7, in under 1000 words. Follows what happens to Draco and Snape after they have successfully Disapparated outside Hogwarts.

It was already dark when Severus Snape came home.

AU: Harry Potter wasn't quite as undamaged as Albus Dumbledore thought.

Set in Year Six of the Marauders Era. After the Lupin/Whomping Willow incident and Snape's Worst Memory. Sirius Black hates Severus Snape, and vice versa. But an afternoon in exile together may change things. After nearly accidentally killing him, Black learns that there is more to Snape than just a greasy little git.

Snape doesn't care what colour her eyes are, and she doesn't care that he doesn't want her friendship...

A holy mistake is made and Snape faces much peril.

Diary entries of Hermione. Depressing suicidialish concepts. My first fic. Slight Hr/Dm, SS/Hr in later chapters

A broken Harry Potter mysteriously vanishing from the face of the Earth without so much as a trace left behind to train with his ancestor. A year later, a dark man suddenly appears at Hogwarts with a secret. A secret that reveals he is not who he plays himself out to be. He, however, finds someone who understands him just as much as his mentor did.

A love letter that is sent to Snape on the last week of the school year by a mystery student.

Just what was Snape's worst memory? Maybe it's NOT being hung upside down! A short ficlet from OOtP.

Draco has a very strange conversation with Snape. References to slash.

Severus Snape challenges self-absorbed Gilderoy Lockhart to a walk-off after Harry and Draco's duel. RuPaul makes a cameo as the judge. Snape vogues.

Severus and Hermione happen upon an old cathedral.

It is the eve of Harry Potter's death, and I have the best seat in the world.

A traitor to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named flees to a remote wizard town in Ireland to seek refuge from punishment. However, Voldemort has different plans. Ever watchful for the perfect opportunity, Voldemort waits to reclaim what is rightfully his.

Snape reflects on his past, and sees that a certain Gryffindor has changed it much. Not a love story.

This one-shot is from Snape's point-of-view just before the boggart scene in PoA. It's a tribute to all those obsessive vampire theorists.

Harry still doesn't like practicing Occlumency. A missing scene for Blood Magic by GatewayGirl on Schnoogle.

Harry is near the end of his seventh year, and finds himself charged with a crime he didn't commit and not charged with a crime he did commit . . . Besides which, he has to take the NEWTS and learns a few surprises about his family, and then embarks on a trip back in time to fulfill a task Dumbledore set before him. Murder and mayhem ensue.

Indiana Jones invades Hogwarts, much to the dismay of the staff and students.

Late one night, while Severus Snape is sitting, staring at the fire, he feels an excruciating pain. His thoughts mesh with Set Me As A Seal in this songfic.

James tries to tell Lily something but there are a few interruptions.

Harry Potter's thoughts in the Aftermath of the last battle.

It's sixth year. Voldemort's gone into hiding, causing a lull at Hogwarts. Everyone's going to be bored. In fact, everyone's already bored and school hasn't even started yet, so they've all resorted to 'entertaining' themselves. Now, Harry, Ron and Hermione's lives have inadvertently turned into one big drama series. Is that really Hermione surrounded by all those guys along with ... Harry? And Draco? Since when has Ginny been Slytherinesque? And just who is that new DADA teacher? What is she hiding? And Tom Riddle, well, he's got plans of his own...

A post-HBP fic in seven chapters. Severus, Narcissa and Draco are struggling to keep abreast of events that connect their lives, and over which they feel they have no control. Another in my Narcissa-Severus 'will-they-won't-they' series, but can be read on its own. Absolutley no fluff. Quite a lot of angst.

It's a cold night at the beginning of January, and Snape goes to pay his annual visit to someone he loved. (one shot)

Harry finds his one-time teacher and present colleague performing an unfamiliar ritual.

Deathly Hallows spoilers ensue. This story is being written as a response to JKR's comment in an interview where she said if Snape could choose to live his life over, he would choose Lily over the Death Eaters. So, that said, this is obviously AU.

Last Year. Last Chance. Last Battle. Last Dance. The third and final level of "Harry Potter and the Last Year". What's got Professor Snape in a good mood? And can it last? Canon through OotP, alternate 7th year. This is a Horcrux free zone.

It sounds like New Year's Eve or Bonfire Day - hundreds of people celebrating - but really it is the sound of a hundred cowards fleeing, a hundred Death Eaters trying to escape the recent memory of the defeat of their Master, a hundred hate-filled villains running from a boy of seventeen with deep green eyes and murder in his heart.

What really happened that night when Snape glimpsed Remus as a Werewolf? What happened after? Click to find out...

Draco tries telling himself it's just a crush. It isn't.

Harry receives a very special gift for his 16th birthday, which quickly comes in handy when things get really bad at Privet Drive this summer. But when he finds refuge at Snape's, everything starts to get complicated... This is NOT a slash fiction, but an adoption/guardian one !

Remus Lupin watches as former lover Severus Snape's eyes light up when Remus's wife walks in the room to pour coffee. Featuring, Angsty~Remus, Clueless~ Hermione, Frustrated~Sevvy & Dead~ Sirius!

Remus hates the holidays. Severus

Snape gets what he wants from Harry by various means in detention (three drabbles).

You probably think of Voldemort and his Death Eaters as terrible, heartless people, and you are normally correct. But for one week every year, they are able to escape the stress of the wizarding world by going on vacation...the Muggle way! Join everyone's favorite antagonists on their annual road trip to the beach, because something tells me this year may be the most exciting yet! Expect OOC behavior and plenty of laughs (at least I hope so)! And just let me warn you beforehand- this is my longest, wackiest and most random fic yet. So let the wackiness begin! Muahahahaha.....

After Draco's little "mishap" with Harry at the end of book five, he and Snape have a talk. Bottom line? Draco needs to make a decision.

The war is over, and Severus Snape is in Azkaban. With Chocolate Frogs. Could there be worse? Well, yes. Correspondence about them. Just what is really going on?

Have you ever wanted to know why Severus Snape is the way he is? Written from his daughter's point of view.

Ron finds himself lonely at Christmas, Harry and Ginny are oblivious of everyone but each other, and Hermione is visiting Krum in Bulgaria. Who will help Ron get through a lonely and tedious Christmas night and maybe give him the courage to tell Hermione how he really feels? Read on and find out.

Two men meet in a bar in Diagon Alley, weeks after James and Lily Potter's murder. One of them is tortured, miserable and riddled with self-reproach, the other is Severus Snape. Lily may be dead, but Snape's love for her is very much alive. Spanning from the Potters' funeral to Harry's first year at Hogwarts, this is the end of Lily and Severus' story, begun in Alter Ego.

Caution: Should only be attempted by professional fangirls. This sort of thing can be more dangerous than playfully poking dragons and is a good way to get on Snape's hit list. OCs and tricks abound, now comes with shampoo!

The third part of the Passion Trilogy, Sequel to 'Obsessed'. What can I say about it? The person's identity who catches the two is cleared and something interesting happens.

Harry ignores some good advice.

Remus is once again alone, and it seems so easy to pretend that the man in front of him is not Snape, but Sirius...

Second of my Snape vignettes. Snape sees Harry Potter for the first time and muses on what he will become to the wizarding world.

Snape has a terrible scare, and Lupin is the sole audience to one of the Potions master's most secret confessions.

A one shot following Severus Snape from the end of HBP to the final battle, with flashbacks to his past.

A unnamed older Slytherin meditates upon one of the younger Slytherins and comes to a suprising conclusion. Guess who before you reach the end.

Snape's found a new friend in Muggle English teacher Daniel Deschamps, but are Sirius and Lupin willing to allow it to exist?

In her first year teaching at Hogwarts, Hermione may not think she likes Snape very much, but she could be wrong.... Once Ginny gets involved, there's bound to be trouble. Love potions and lust potions and some crazy, nutty mix-ups, oh my! Watch out for fluffy, pink, sex-crazed bunnies and a shameful number of jokes involving stirring rods.

When Voldemort returns after the third task, Dumbledore asks Snape if he is ready. Here we look at his private reaction to this question.

How Snape left the Death Eaters, saved the Weasley twins, and delivered James Potter's Invisibility Cloak to Dumbledore.

Harry's random thoughts as he lusts after Draco. Sequel to "Could It Get Any Worse?".

After the final battle and the loss of his two best friends, Harry Potter doesn't have the spark in him that he once had. While on the job in The Leaky Cauldron, he discovers a disheveled Draco Malfoy. Trying to protect him from a vicious Severus Snape, however, proves to be a mistake.

In this story, the Gryffindors and Slytherins are having potions class. Once again, Snape is torturing Neville in front of the class... But to Snape's surprise, Neville draws out his wand and points it at him... what will happen??

A pivotal tale and seminal theory about life-debts, immortality potions, and the night that Severus Snape turned his life from Darkness.

Christmas Day 1985, Snape receives a letter that changes his life. The two most important people in his life are gone. What type of memories is this letter going to stir up for him? A prequel to Secrets and Protection

What if Monty Python's sketch Hungarian Phrasebook happened at Hogwarts?

When Narcissa Malfoy comes to Hogwarts to see her son, she bumps into the one person she is most anxious to avoid.

Severus looks back on seven years of anguish and reminisces about Lily. Rather angsty, fairly short, enjoy!

Guilt, grief, and obligation haunt Severus Snape, and he is forced to deal with the feelings they leave behind.

AU: Written Pre-HBP. Eighteen-year-old Severus Snape is having a very bad day. After getting into a argument with his "future wife" (until he finds a way out or they kill each other), Potter and Black steal his chocolate eggs his mother sent him. After a very unexpected kind act by someone equally as unlikely, Severus does something he regrets.

There are secrets hidden in the pasts of the Avery women, behind closed doors and shuttered eyes. Niobe, the dueling mistress who drives her students mercilessly. Grace, the gentle and genreous social activist. Marion, the stern yet kind headmistress of a small and exclusive school. What secrets drive these women, and what will they do to keep those secrets hidden from those around them?

Nanny Ogg goes to Hogwarts to help out in the kitchens and ends up practising her very special brand of magic. Will Granny (assisted by Snape) save the day? Will Snape find true love? Will Hogwarts ever be the same again?

Irma Pince has a secret that she didn't know she was keeping. How does she react when Severus removes the charm that reveals that she really is Eileen Snape?

In Hogwarts, like in all the other Wizarding schools of the world, the staff must confront trouble with the Love Potions frequently. In a castle packed with teenagers it only seems to be inevitable.

Hermione loves Severus too much to live without him.

"He had murdered, again. Killed his saviour, killed his future..." Snape and Draco after their flight from Hogwarts: realisations, guilt and an uncertain future.

When Harry Potter dies, the Wizarding World is shocked. But death is yet another adventure, and as Harry finds out, a big one.

Hermione must compromise herself to get what she wants from Severus Snape. Pre-het and AU as of HBP.