What if Severus had never called Lily Mudblood? What if Potter's deliberate bullying had never managed to break them up? What if they decided to get married and have children despite the turbulent times? Not J. Potter friendly. Please read and review. This story is AU and is NOT canon-compliant. Image is from Dorian Gray and credited to Alliance and Ealing Studio, 2009.

It was amazing, how one color could be a source of bliss and happiness, yet at the same time a source of pain and regret. Following a discussion with Dumbledore in the afterlife, Severus Snape is given a chance to return and face those regrets. Severus x Lily. A rewrite/retooling of "Tempus Vita". Cover image "Always" belongs to ExothermicEX on DeviantArt.

His life had been a mockery to itself, as too his death it seemed. For what kind of twisted humour would force Severus Snape to relive his greatest regret? To return him to the point in his life when the only person that ever mattered in his life had already turned away.

What if Lily was engaged to James, but in love with Sev? What if Severus didn't return her feelings at first? This story is AU and NOT canon-compliant. Please read and review. Image is credited to dancingcarrot21 at deviantart.

Dumbledore wouldn't have left trouble magnet Harry Potter defenseless for years at Hogwarts. At thirteen Hermione becomes his protector, working and training with Severus, giving up her childhood to ensure Harry's safety. As times passes, Severus becomes teacher, mentor, friend, and eventually lover. A story of spies, plots, and love. M in Part Three. Winner of SSHG Best WIP Award.

Voldemort chooses Neville but the Potters do not escape unscathed. Regulus Black survives the war and establishes a Foundation to undo the damage inflicted by Voldemort. Five years later, new employee, Lily Potter walks back into Severus Snape's life. Things are about to get complicated. AU. *COMPLETE*

The wards around Privet Drive fall and Harry is taken. He is rescued and returns to Hogwarts a different man. It's time Harry shed his mask and became who he was always meant to be - a Slytherin. One that just might be able to win the war. Harry ends up finding the Founders Portrait what awaits to be learned? SLASHSS/HP MPREG Manipulative perverted Dumbledore YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!

A trap during the Horcrux hunt sends Harry into a dimension where war has raged for 28 years. Harry must not only protect himself from Voldemort, but also from a rising new Dark Lord, the evil Ministry, a war-hardened Dumbledore and... himself. Will he find his way back home to finish his own war? COMPLETE. WARNINGS: murder/torture/rape (fade to black) war/prison atrocities.

The night Lily and James are killed, Dumbledore asks for Severus's promise to give up his own destiny in order to protect Harry's life. Severus agrees, but when he meets his husband from the future, he's forced to break his word. HPSS Slash.

Takes places during the summer after OoTP, the Golden Trio is forced to stay in hiding at Grimmauld Place. Hermione (who is of age!) begins gravitating towards Snape without knowing why, and he attempts keeping her at arms length, but will be able to remain doing so? AU

Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived to Defeat Voldemort, Head Auror of the MLE, finds himself stuck in his 11-year-old body after a potions accident. How does 28-year-old Harry deal with being a First Year, with Voldemort rising back to power, and himself a Horcrux again? How does being sorted into Slytherin affect his relationship this time around with Snape? EWE. Slash.

After the Battle of Hogwarts, Neville Longbottom and Severus Snape find themselves in the uncomfortable position of working together.

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. AU Sequel posted: The Moment It Ended.

Set during OotP. When Harry falls ill in Snape's lesson, the last thing he expects is for the ensuing drama to unveil a deadly plot that could end his life once and for all...

AU, girl!Harry story. As Voldemort's power grows, Harriet has to navigate a path to adulthood in the shadow of war. Snape begins to understand that not only does he have a heart, but it may be under the greatest siege of his life. A continuation of 'The Never-ending Road,' beginning with Order of the Phoenix. Future Snape/Harriet.

Severus was granted his greatest wish: a second chance to start over again with Lily. What he hadn't expected was Harry had had the same thought in mind. Could they ever learn to be civil around each other in their quest to protect her from Voldemort?

1976 and nightmare visions of the future are plaguing Severus Snape. With Lily's help, he will need to figure out what these glimpses are trying to tell him, to change their future to a better one for all of the wizarding world. Although the future is not set in stone, not everything Severus sees can be changed, sometimes the inevitable will reach them sooner than they expected

19-year-old Lily Evans finds herself mysteriously in the future, a world she no longer recognizes. With no one else to turn to, she goes to her old friend Severus for help and sets out to fix the past. What will Severus do when the love of his life returns to him? [SS/LE]

AU. When redemption and forgiveness took place before too late. A little OOC... and fluffy. COMPLETE.

Harry didn't appear at Hogwarts causing concern. Albus immediately head's out to Privet Drive to find out what was going on, along with Minerva and a reluctant Severus Snape. What they find out changes everything for everyone in the wizarding world. Is there a chance for anyone to go back and fix past mistakes? is there any hope at all for the magical world? COMPLETE

Dying with those wonderful green eyes filling his vision, Severus Snape travels to the afterlife to be given an offer by Dumbledore: a chance to return to his tortured past to have a second opportunity at life. Awakening at the moment of his worst memory, can Sev conquer his teenage demons to become the bravest man ever known by the one he TRULY cared for, Lily Evans?

*COMPLETE* After the war, Hermione and Severus share a drunken one night stand. Horrified when he realises Hermione was a virgin, Snape gives her a dangerous dark artifact and disappears. An accident at the Ministry throws their lives into chaos. Divine Intervention is a tricky thing and what at first seems a fateful mistake might prove to actually be the correction of one.

A spell Harry uses to ascertain Snape's loyalties goes horribly wrong. Will Snape use his newfound power over Harry to destroy him? Slavery story. Eventual Severitus. Fluff warning. Absolutely no slash.

The entire Wizarding world believes Lily Potter was murdered by Voldemort on that fateful night in 1981, including the man who would've given his immortal soul to save her. But there's another side to Lily's sacrifice, ancient charms and hidden truths that may have the power to change everything.

AU. When Lily died, Snape removed his heart and replaced it with a steel trap. But rescuing her daughter from the Dursleys in the summer of '92 is the first step on a long road to discovering this is less true than he'd thought. A girl!Harry story, covering CoS - GoF. Future Snape/Harriet. Sequel "No Journey's End" (Ootp - DH) is now posting.

Suppose the Marauders torture hadn't driven Snape to Voldemort and he had been the better man. What would the future have looked like? Warning: may now contain DH spoilers.

Sixteen-year-old Severus leaves Hogwarts to attend school in the U.S., and possibly pursue a new life. But what of the growing darkness back home that threatens Lily and all he's ever known? (This story is an AU and does not follow HP canon!)

Hermione seeks knowledge from a reluctant Snape in order to help the War effort. What she receives is more than either of them expected. Set beginning in Hermione's sixth year, continuing into a slightly AU post-DH era.

The Light has fallen, Darkness abounds, and Hermione Granger is struggling to survive in a far more sinister Wizarding world. When she is sentenced into Snape's charge, Hermione begins to wonder if everything is truly as it seems. For better or worse, their worlds are about to collide, perhaps even unite them against a common enemy. AU, Post-Hogwarts, Rated M.

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies." Severus never questioned his loyalty to the Dark Lord until he heard those words. His life and his loyalties changed forever as he learned of what was to become of Lily's child. Without the power to stop Voldemort, Severus Snape had to do anything and everything to keep Lily safe. COMPLETE.

In which Severus Snape's death is interrupted by an interfering Hermione Granger, and he harbors quiet animosity for the girl who forced him to live past the war. CW for trauma, suicide mention, torture, self-harm.

Lily Potter's life was spared on October 31st, 1981, and now Severus Snape has the one thing he's always wanted: A second chance with her. But what will he do with it, now that he's got it? AU and not timeline-compliant past Chapter 1.

In a darker future, the Order pitches one last battle at Hogwarts. Defeated, Harry Potter is defenseless against Voldemort's death blow... that somehow throws him into the past. (Snarry slash and evil!Dumbledore. You have been warned!)

HPSS slash. Traveling back in time is safe. All you have to do is keep away from people who affect time, who are pretty rare. It's just Horcrux-hunting Harry Potter's luck that Severus Snape is one of them. COMPLETE.

In the depths of the Ministry, there is a cell for the world's most dangerous man… and he wants out. Read warnings. No slash. EDITED 2020/2021.

Two years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Minerva receives a letter revealing Severus Snape's biggest secret... and that secret's intent to enroll in the school Snape taught, just as Harry returns for senior year, too. DH compliant, still SS/LE and all the other canon pairings.

When, after that fateful Halloween night, the wrong Potter twin is hailed the Boy Who Lived, how will Harry's life turn out? With a power he knows not, an ancient prophecy and one Severus Snape practically raising him, interesting at least is a given.

Autorisierte Übersetztung von Malora. Hedwig ist verletzt, doch sie muss Hilfe für Harry holen. Ungeachtet ihrer Verletzungen acht sie sich auf den Weg nach Hogwarts und trifft dort auf einen Raben ähnlichen Mann.

AU. Time Travel. Snape goes back in time, holding the knowledge of what is to come if he fails. No longer holding a grudge, he seeks to shape Harry into the greatest wizard of all time, starting on the day Hagrid took Harry to Diagon Alley. No Horcruxes.

Regrouping after Ginny is severely injured, Harry goes on a mission for Minerva and discovers that Snape is alive, is living as a Muggle with no memory of his magical life, and has a daughter Lily's age. A fun & sentimental journey to bring Severus home.

AU after the last chapter of DH. Harry gets pulled into another universe to deal with the problem of Voldemort there. But that is not the worst thing that could happen. Mostly gen, with Snape mentoring Harry. COMPLETE.

Now complete as of its 30th chapter. Naruto and his teammates, and his mentors, find themselves faced with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and they take it. But time is a fickle thing, and even a ninja can't just jump inside the river of history and change its course. Not without getting swept up in it. Uzumaki Naruto is about to learn that.

Hermione overhears something she shouldn't concerning Professor Snape and decides that maybe the House-elves aren't the only ones in need of protection.

Snupin Post-DH They Lived!AU. Christmas 1999: an untraceable poison is sending the magical world into a panic. As an employee in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, Remus is caught up in the investigation, but he's as lost as everyone else... until he has an almost miraculous encounter with Severus Snape, whom everyone thought long since dead. SS/RL

After the Second Wizard War, the Veil turned inward and spat out a few familiar faces-as children! Severus, Sirius, and Lily get a second chance to live their lives over again. What things will change, and what will stay the same? With Harry as Sev's guardian, Remus as Sirius', & Lily has a surprise new family. AU!

Hermione begins to learn something of the man behind the dark sarcasms of the classroom.

It'll never work, they said. Slytherin & Gryffindor, Muggle & Wizard. But sometimes the irresistible chemistry of the heart overrides everything. AU, LE/SS, PE/JP, Marauder era & beyond!

AU, Post HBP Snape travels back in time to warn pre SSPS Snape about what is to come. No DH Spoilers

When an unmarried Lily Evans joins the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore gives her a simple mission: meet with the Death Eater Severus Snape and tell him what she's done. AU.

Snape and Hermione are captured. Observe their relationship in 30 days as they are locked together in a dungeon.

Still struggling with the aftermath of the war, Hermione decides to leave everything behind to go find herself. She travels further than she could have ever imagined without going anywhere at all. Along the way, she discovers someone she mistakenly thought she'd known... AU, M.

Loki had every intention of wreaking havoc upon Midgard the moment his suicide attempt had failed, it was just too bad that Midgard ended up being so distracting. Who knew that such a primitive society would have such a novel concept as therapy?

Hindsight is 20/20, but when Harry's last steps into the forest set him back further than he'd ever thought, he never realised how grateful he'd be to have Snape there to help too. Mentor/guardian fic, time travel, but not cliched.

Severus wakes up in the afterlife expecting something rather different than being almost-seventeen again. Seriously, what kind of game is this? But wait - Lily's come back, too - from 1981? Perhaps it's a second chance... but to do what? SS/LE

An alternative ending to the DH. What if Snape became the Elder Wand's master? Voldemort gives Snape one hour to find Potter before setting his pet snake Nagini on him. When Snape and Harry meet face to face, Snape disarms him without knowing that Harry had the Elder Wand's allegiance. Will Snape's fate be any different when he faces his Dark Master with the Deathstick on his side?

Lily wins the Felix Felicis in sixth-year Potions. It turns out her perfect day is identical to what Severus's would have been...with a catch. Canon at the beginning, then diverges.

The only thing keeping Hermione out of trouble and Harry Potter alive is... the Professor's Discretion. AU.

In 1998, Severus Snape was given a second chance. In 1976, he has to figure out how to take it.

Hermione Granger and Severus Snape slowly learn from each other as the war escalates and the Final Battle approaches. AU from HBP. Out of a war where children must grow up too fast, Hermione and Severus develop a beautiful friendship and more.

SS/HP. Slash. When Harry begins to break under the pressures of death and prophesy, help arrives from an unlikely quarter: Snape. Despite their own doubts, manipulations from all sides and hapless interventions combine to bring their two souls together.

"After Darkness, Light." A chance meeting ten years after the war may not be just a coincidence, and may prove to have very far-reaching consequences. A story of many things, but primarily of healing. SS/HG; rated M for later chapters. Complete.

A witch struggles to conform in a society that restricts her. A wizard thinks he has nothing to offer anyone but his duty and, ultimately, his life. An SS/HG Regency Tale. As AU as you get. M for later chapters.

The thought of loving a man is more than startling to Watson. Holmes leads the way. Movieverse with book-style tendencies.

13-year-old Harry is dragged into another world where he was adopted by Snape. Where his mother is still alive. Where he can't stop feeling like a stranger. And Snape discovers that a new Potter has appeared. One who won't leave him alone. Who knows Snape's deepest secret. As both Harrys search for a way home, they begin to question what home really is.

Now Complete! Severus Snape is not a kind man, but Hermione Granger is past caring. She wants his approval and will do anything to get it. How far will she go? Even she has no concept of the depths to which she will fall in her quest.

Mulciber pranked Mary Macdonald and Snape did not care; what if he had pranked Lily instead?

Completed. The Marauders have more enemies than just Severus Snape, who's rotten luck is about to change. His friendship with Lily will continue past fifth year. AU, Marauder Era, SS/LE. M for Foul language/sexual content

No Harry. No Ron. No hope. A broken Hermione goes through the motions of living until the one comes who can truly make her feel alive again. Canon through pg309 of DH. AU, Multiple Character Death, SS/HG. Rated M for reasons.

What does the future hold for a Sirius sorted into Slytherin and Snape, who's never met Lily, recast as his best friend? Follow their adventures in life, love and eternal Potter hating from 4th year to Voldemort's attack. remus/sirius snape/lily

Lily, after her death, gets the chance to see all of the mistakes she made in life, by viewing the lives of other Lilys who DIDN'T make her mistakes. Most pairings are SS/LE, but there are some JP/LP and others.

When Professor Snape heals Hermione's injuries after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, they are both surprised by what they learn. The two must work together to help Harry defeat Lord Voldemort.

AU one-shot set after sixth year. Harry confronts Voldemort with an alternate reason for some of the Dark's Lord's failures, and offers to help him out, for a price.

The Maruaders were not nice people, but what if the gang was as Dark as they should at first glance appear to be? AU Marauders era one-shot.

Snape lives and marries Hermione.—MLC with a twist turns into AU-sequel of DH with new dangers, old secrets, and much more.—Virtual penny dreadful. Many short episodes with adventure, romance, a dash of hurt/comfort, and a sprinkling of horror.

Prequel to Girl In the War. Rose Potter stays the summer at Grimmauld Place, and Snape comes to visit her.

Hedwig has always protected her boy. But when her boy's relatives throw everything he cares about into a bonfire - including herself - she must leave him to find help before her injuries and the cold winter overwhelm her. NEW: podfic (audio reading) of this story now available. See my profile for the link, under "updates."

AU. The summer after 5th year, Death Eaters find Harry abandoned in the Dursley house and bring him to Voldemort. Will one particular Death Eater give up his position and his hate to save his enemy's son? Snape mentors Harry fic. violence,chld abuse,rape

Deathly Hallows SPOILERS. Set after Chapter 36. Harry realizes that he has some unfinished business with Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape.

Snape's life would have been so much easier if Rose Potter had been born a boy.

Harry comes into his sexuality & discovers he wants Snape. Intense occlumency lessons pull these 2 together, but is Snape too troubled or too dark to return HP's affections? DE meetings & Dumbledore stir the already boiling pot, HPSS Slash, Angst COMPLETE

Yet another take on Harry's first Occlumency lesson with Snape.

HPFA Winner of Best JKR Character portrayal, for Severus Snape! Snape retrieves an injured Harry from the Dursleys-- only this time, the damage is more permanent, and Snape is not prepared to be cuddly. Complete!

Occlumency lessons again with Harry's grief unleashed and Snape realizing his heart is still functional also Snape helping an abused Dracoootp spoilers, not slashmostly Snape, Harry & DracoComplete