I admit it. I have a weakness for Daddy Snape; especially if he’s Daddy Snape to little Harry. It’s just so cute. Some authors are pretty good at writing them as father – son. On the other hand, some authors make me wonder if they’ve ever seen a child, let alone been around one. When I write kids, I write with my inner child at the forefront of my mind; staring out at everything, wide eyed in wonder.
It seems to work–at least according to the reviewers of those stories.
Hmm, I may have to split this list via WIPs and Completes. Geez.
Apprentice by Fallen Shadowed Angel
Summary: Harry James Potter has always been anything but normal. Why should Hogwarts be any different? The Sorting Hat brings back an age-old tradition for the special little boy: Apprenticeship.
Warnings: AU Year One- mentor, CP (i.e. Corporal Punishment)
Length: 22K, WIP
Believe by Victory-Starr
Summary: It’s Christmas Eve and little Harry has many requests, but none of them are for Santa.
My Opinion: Aww.
The Best Revenge by Arsinoe de Blassenville
Summary: AU. Yes, the old Snape retrieves Harry from the Dursleys formula. I just had to write one. Everything changes, because the best revenge is living well.
Warnings: T for Mentor Snape’s occasional naughty language. Supportive Minerva.
Length: 222K, Complete
Bleeding Clown by parselslyth
Summary: Harry receives a diary from Dumbledore but when he writes in it, he receives an unexpected response. Who is this correspondent? Abused!Harry rescued from Dursleys, Mentor!Snape.
Warnings: swearing, self harm, drug abuse, references to child abuse and rape
Length: 61K, WIP
Blessed Curse by HpFanficFan
Summary: COMPLETE. Harry’s defeat of Voldemort came at a price. The consequences will change Harry’s life forever; for him it will be a blessing. For the snarky potions master, however, it has become what he calls a curse. Severitus. Revised
My Opinion: Actions speak louder than words.
Broken Wings by Snapegirlkmf
Summary: Desperate to escape his guilt and nightmares after the third task, Harry transforms into a hawk by accident and ends up breaking both wings and suffering partial memory loss. He is found by Snape,who helps him and discovers the truth about his professor.
Length: 236K, Complete
The Greatest Gift by Snapegirlkmf
Summary: Harry writes a letter to Severus trying to express how grateful he is that Severus adopted him and gave him a home and family. Just a little fic I wrote for Father’s Day. Set in the Broken Wings AU!
Burnt by lastcrazyhorn
Summary: A disabled Harry comes to Hogwarts story. Everyone expects him to be like his dad, but how can he be with such a different past? A Slytherin Harry takes on Hogwarts in an unusual way.
Warnings: Slytherin Harry, Physical Disability, Abuse, Minor Violence, runaway, Neglect, Work In Progress, Alternate Universe, Deaf Character, Sign Language, Book 1: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
My Opinion I like this one.
Length: 33K, WIP
Cherokee Camp by grugster
Summary: After two weeks of torture by Death Eaters, Draco and Harry have to find a way to cope with all their memories. Severus, as their guardian, tries to help and spends some time with them at a therapy camp in the USA. Draco/Harry friendship
Length: 191K, WIP
Common Ground by Snapegirlkmf
Summary: Harry hides in the library on Halloween, trying to escape his dreadful memories of Lily’s death. No one else seems to remember or care that he lost everything that night. He is found by Snape . . .and also a troll. WINNER-BEST HALLOWEEN STORY at P&S!
Length: 17K, Complete
The Cupboard by enahma
Summary: After Sirius’s death, Harry is sinking into depression. And then, he receives a detention which leads to a shocking revelation. Will he be able to stop sinking deeper? COMPLETE! No slash.
My Opinion: Not one to miss. Good story.
The Definition of Home by oliver.snape
Summary: Harry runs into Snape while trying to find the definition of home, and finds himself drawn into Snape’s Order task, finding a location outside of London. Along the way, he and Snape learn a few new definitions themselves. Warnings: Guardian/Adoption fic.
My Opinion: This is one of my top favorites.
Length: 80K, Complete
The Definition of Family by oliver.snape
Summary: Sequel to the Definition of Home. Now back at Hogwarts, Harry balances school and his home life as he prepares to face Voldemort and learns to trust Snape’s guidance. Along the way they both learn that family also means support.
Length: 92K, Complete
the photo album by oliver.snape
Summary: This is an epilogue of The Definition series. It’s basically little scenes that didn’t make it into the series, presented as photographic short stories. There is no set timeline, some are from times in the story, and some are after it finished.
Depths of Darkness by Kirsti-Lee
Summary: Dumbledore has organised Harry’s life so that he is forced into Gryffindor. What will happen when Harry rocks the boat?
My Warnings: Slytherin!Harry
Length: 31K, Complete
Digging for the Bones by paganaidd
Summary: Because of a student death, new measures are being taken to screen students for abuse. With Dumbledore facing an enquiry, Snape is in charge of making sure every student receives an examination.
Warnings: Abused!Harry. Character death. Sevitis.
My Opinion: A good ‘un. WIP, but regularly updated.
Length: 79K
Equilibrium by Twinheart
Summary: AU Snape.mentors.Harry fic. When Harry Potter comes to Hogwarts, Snape is forced to reexamine his initial impressions.
Warnings: implications of : child neglect, abuse, manipulative Dumbledore, sedition. Not Canon.
Length: 74K, Complete
Faith by Dragongirl16
Summary: COMPLETE:: What if the wizarding world turned its back on Harry? Who will stay true? Who can he turn to? What will he do? A HD romance in the works!
Warnings: PreOotP AU! SLASH
My Warnings/Opinion: Graphic violence, Lupin/Black, resorting fic, Snape/LMalfoy, crazy Weasleys, Neville/Blaise
This is a really great story.
Length: 338K
Family Night by Celebony
Summary: As Hogwarts starts a quarterly Family Night, Harry is determined take part. Facing the heartache of looking in all the wrong places, he’ll have to discover the true meaning of family, and that sometimes it comes from where you least expect it. COMPLETE
My Opinion: I bawl every time I read this one.
Length: 32K
Finding a Family by hestiaA1
Summary: AU – What if Severus had been able to overcome Harry’s resemblance to James? What if Harry weren’t the only Griffyndor with Slytherin traits? …Snape ends up mentoring the Golden Trio. Contains corporal punishment, not abuse. Several sequels now posted.
Length: 45K, Complete
Flashback by Dream Painter
Summary: Locking Harry in the broom closet was the catalyst that unlocked a whole flurry of issues that young Harry and Severus must now begin to work through… together.
Length: 12K, Complete
For Duty and Honor by Bratling
Summary: During Occulmency lessons in OOtP, Snape notices something… off in Harry’s memories. Eventual SnapeadoptsHarry story. Nonslash, AU. Gen fic, no pairings. Does not take into account HBP.
Length: 58K, WIP
Forget Me Not by Sa-kun
Summary: Everyone seems to have forgotten that the Boy Who Lived exists. Harry’s friends don’t remember who he is. Harry tries to hold on to reality as he knows it, while trying to come to terms with who he is. He finds Snape as an unexpected ally. 6th year AU.
My Opinion: Really good one to keep your eye on.
Length: 97K, WIP
Fourteen Fathoms by Vain
Summary: Repost – Snape discovers something disturbing about Harry and acts . . . like Snape. Complete.
My Warnings: Dursleys abuse Harry. Snape reacts. Snape meets Dursleys. Muahahaha.
But this cannot be allowed to continue. As amusing as you find the image of Potter beneath a herd of stampeding hippogriffs, he’s your student. Your student. And no one ever, ever does anything like this to one of your students. Ever.
Freaks Aren’t Allowed by lastcrazyhorn
Summary: After nearly freezing to death outside his relative’s home, little Harry is rescued first by a spirit and then a snarky git! The adventure isn’t over yet though, as Snape soon realizes that his charge’s problems aren’t limited to just frostbite. Childfic
Warnings: Child Abuse, Kid Fic, Fluff, Nightmares, Animagus, Adoption, Time Travel, Ghost!Lily, Ghost!James, Cute, Alternate Universe
My Warnings/Opinion: Awww. Daddy Snape.
Length: 44K, Complete
Not A Freak by lastcrazyhorn
Summary: Okay, you’ve convinced me. Sequel to Freaks Aren’t Allowed. This is a series of one shots designed to fill in some of the blanks between Harry’s first year with Snape and his first year at Hogwarts.
Warnings: Childfic. Fluff.
Length: 12K, WIP
fresh and calm by h0use-m0use
Summary: AU. Wanting to be left alone, Harry neglects to visit the Hospital Wing after he is hit by the rogue bludger, and is caught by Snape…
Goodnight, Twerp by SweetlyDesolated
Summary: AU year 5, A night spent in the Potions Professor’s rooms in the castle of Hogwarts passes quite calmly, even under the circumstances of who lives there. No Slash. One shot. Follows ‘My Hero,’ so read that first.
My Opinion: You don’t have to read the other story first. *sniffles*
The Guiltless by kilara25
Summary: Sixth year AU, written pre HBP. When Harry appears at the Welcoming Feast wearing a glamor only Snape notices, Snape decides to find out what the glamor is hiding. His investigation leads to a number of shocking revelations about both Harry and himself.
My Warnings: Needs a beta.
Length: 26K, Complete
Harry Potter and the Night Before Christmas by Mord-Sith Rahl
Summary: Harry and Severus spend their first Night Before Christmas together as family.
Warnings: NonSLASH. Does not take HBP or DH into account.
My Opinion: *sniffles* Daddy Snape.
Harry Potter’s Second Chance by etherian
Summary: Voldemort is dead, and so are quite a few others. Harry’s back at the Dursleys & depressed. A potion changed everything. Snape adopts Harry. Canon more or less up to the end of GoF, after that AU.
My Opinion: Etherian kicks arse, and therefore, by default, so do her stories.
Second Chance: Take Two by etherian
Summary: Harry de-aged himself to age 6 after killing Voldemort. Snape adopted him in order to give him a happy childhood. Albus is dying.
Warnings: AU, canon up to end of PoA. Sequel to Harry Potter’s Second Chance. COMPLETE. The sequel is The Death Eater & The Rat.
Length: 232K
Second Chance: The Journal of Harry Potter by etherian
Summary: A kind of pre-quel to HP’s Second Chance & Second Chance Take Two. This is the journal that Snape found after rescuing a de-aged Harry. The journal includes notes made by Snape.
My Opinion: This whole series makes me sniffle.
Harry’s First Detention by kbinnz
Summary: AU one-shot about Harry’s first detention with Snape. Take one mistreated boy, one misinformed man, mix well and watch what happens. Sequel now up! Titled “Harry’s New Home”.
Harry’s New Home by kbinnz
Summary: One lonely little boy. One snarky, grumpy git. When the safety of one was entrusted to the other, everyone knew this was not going to turn out well… Or was it? AU, sequel to “Harry’s First Detention”. OVER A MILLION HITS!
Harry’s Last Hope by teachersnape64
Summary: The summer following Sirius death, Harry is filled with guilt. Snape helps him prepare for the battle of his life against Voldemort! Over 1,ooo,ooo hits! Harry rocks! Not a Severitus but close.
Length: 247K, Complete
Harry’s Sheepy Advent’s Calendar by Healer Pomfrey
Summary: On the first of December, seven-year-old Harry decides to run away from the Dursleys’. This story accompanies him until Christmas. Will he be able to find a new and better home until then? A daily Advent’s calendar story.
Warnings: AU, partly OOC, sick!Harry.
My Warnings: Needs a beta ish.
Length: 31K, Complete
His Boy by lastcrazyhorn
Summary: Just a short drabble about Severus’s newly adopted son, Harry Potter. It can either be read as part of my story, “A Means of Survival,” or it can be read on its own. I purposely made the style a bit ambiguous for that very reason. During HP & COS.
Warnings: drabble, adoption, AU, Neglect
In Plain Sight by melissophobia
Summary: When Dumbledore finds an abused Harry, he decides Harry needs to go into hiding. Under the guise of a Student exchange program, Harry’s id is changed and he is resorted into Slytherin. Au after book 5. Beta’d by Graenr!
My Warnings: Resorting fic, Slytherin!Harry
Length: 84K, WIP
Jamie Snape and the Chamber of Secrets by Original Dark Angel
Summary: AU CoS. Dobby never stopped the mail and as a result, Severus Snape has to rescue our hero from Privet Drive. The only way to keep him safe requires an Unusual Adoption.
Warnings: Abuse via Dursleys
My Opinion: It’s a good one. I’m rather fond of this story.
Length: 55K, Complete
The Last Gift by Keina Snape
Summary: TRANSLATIONHarry 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..
Warnings: No slash, guardian fic
My Warnings: Torture
Length: 449K, WIP
Learning to Love by GoldenPhoenix 12
Summary: When Three year old Harry Potter is taken to the hospital, the Dursley’s find out some unsettling news. Not wanting to take care of the child, he is left at the hospital, and then sent to an orphanage. Will the Wizarding world find Harry? Who will rescu
Length: 15K, Complete
Letter to Santa by Aceia
Summary: Harry was told by the Dursleys he was unworthy of Christmas. After he is rescued from them when he is seven, how does Severus cope with his insecurities?
Warnings: Severus mentor/adoption fic, no slash
Letters: The Year With the Stone by WildKat2007
Summary: When Harry Potter received his letter for Hogwarts, he hardly expected his cousin, Dudley, to receive one as well. And how will Professor Snape react to a Slytherin Harry? In answer to a challenge from Potions and Snitches.
My Warnings: Slytherin!Harry, Wizard Dudley
Length: 226K, WIP
Lost Boys by Bil
Summary: AU. Perhaps it was the whimper that broke through the boy’s fear, the evidence that Severus was as human and broken as he. SS, HP. Oneshot.
My Warnings: Pre-Hogwarts, torture
The Naked Truth by chrmisha
Summary: What happens when Snape comes upon a heavily warded compartment on the Hogwarts Express containing two students—one of whom is naked. INcludes HP, SS, and LL. *COMPLETE*
My Opinion: I love Luna.
Nobody Cared by etherian
Summary: 11 yr old Harry misses the Hogwarts Express. Snape is sent to find out why. What he finds changes any preconceived notions he might have had about the Boy-Who-Lived.
Warnings: AU, manipulative!callous!Dumbledore, DE’s, Voldy, but no Horcruxs.
My Warnings/Opinion: Slytherin!Harry, Daddy Snape
This is the fic to read. This is how I wish the first book had really been written
Length: 357K, WIP (only missing the epilogue)
The November 9th Letters by oliver.snape
Summary: Every year Harry Potter writes a letter to his second son, who is growing up surrounded by friends and family, new and old.
Warnings: Mentor!Snape, not epilogue compliant, happy and light.
My Opinion: Good.
The Other Potter by Saelia
Summary: AU. Lily and James Potter were, as luck would have it, not home the night Voldemort attacked and was vanquished. Thomas Potter became the Boy-Who-Lived. Harry? Left with the Dursleys.
Warnings: Slytherin- ish !Harry, Manipulative!Dumbledore. FULL SUMMARY INSIDE.
Length: 41K, WIP
Practicing Liars by Lomonaaeren
Summary: Harry found out he’s Snape’s son in his fourth year, and concealed the truth from Snape. Now, in his sixth year, he’s dodging Snape’s suspicions about him and trying to figure out Draco Malfoy. Life is complicated. COMPLETE.
Warnings: HPDM preslash, Severitus, AU.
Length: 211K, Complete
The Pride of a Snake by MiDNiGHT-MoRPHiNE
Summary: Complete: A Severitus Challenge. Enough said? Look for sequel in the New Year.
Length: 43K
Reading the Signs by goldencompass
Summary: Harry is hurt and loses his voice. Will Snape help him find it? Not slash.
My Warnings: Fluff
Length: 49K, Complete
Filling the Void by goldencompass
Summary: Sometimes getting what you want is terrifying. Can Severus and Harry manage after the roller coaster that was first year? Sequel to Reading the Signs.
Length: 41K, WIP
Realizations by BloodRedEnd
Summary: Things only get worse for Harry as summer begins. Abused by his relatives, he is saved by an unlikely person, and finds out something that could change his life forever.
Warnings: Severitus fic.
Length: 62K, Complete
Resonance by GreenGecko
Summary: Year six and Harry needs rescuing by Dumbledore and Snape. The resulting understanding between Harry and Snape is critical to destroying Voldemort and leads to an offer of adoption. Covers year seven and Auror training. Sequel is Revolution.
Length: 501K, Complete
Running Away by Bil
Summary: AU. DEATH EATER KIDNAPS BOY WHO LIVED! read the newspaper headlines across magical Britain. SS, HP/HG. AU of Philosopher’s Stone. This may or may not be DH compliant in its way (I’ve only read DH once so I’ve forgotten most of it). And I would like to point out that it was not my idea to have Hermione in this, but she wouldn’t leave.
My Opinion: Aw. Really worth the time to read. One-shot.
Season of Warmth by Snapegirlkmf
Summary: Just before Christmas,Harry hears the basilisk and thinks he’s going mad. He flees into a blizzard and is followed by Snape. Trapped by the storm, they hide in a cave. Will they survive to celebrate Christmas?
Warnings: Sick!Harry & sick!Severus. AU, COS, mentorSev
Length: 97K, Complete
Self Preservation by coffeeonthepatio
Summary: Mrs Figg has enough. 7-year-old Harry Potter cannot stay with the Dursleys any more. Severus Snape thinks everyone is better suited to raise the future Saviour of the Wizarding World. Harry dreams of being taken away by a tall man who scares even Dudley.
Length: 138K, Complete
Serum by Plumbum
Summary: An unusual epidemic breaks out inflicting children and adults alike. Harry Potter appears to be resistant to the disease, and his blood may carry the cure for all.
Warnings: Snape mentors Harry NOT-SLASH.
Length: 27K, WIP
ThE SeVeRuS SnApE FaN cLuB by Lady Lianna Kari
Summary: Harry gets tired of Snape making digs at his fame, so he decides to get even.
Warnings: Not a Slash. References of abuse.
My Opinion: Cute.
Length: 11K, WIP
Slave Child by Kristen Hudson
Summary: A duel with Draco leads to drastic and permanent consequences for both Harry and Severus. AU from the end of OotP.
Length: 263K, WIP
Slytherin Savior by SilentStardust
Summary: Chapter 11 up! Please R&R! Harry Potter goes to his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin! He becomes best friends with Draco Malfoy, finds a new father in Snape, and learns to stand up for himself in what he considers to be his new home.
My Warnings/Opinion: Slytherin!Harry
Author writes too slowly. 11 chapters in 4 years? Jeebus. I still like the story though.
Length: 29K, WIP
Slytherin Saviours by Ariande
Summary: Renamed! Easier Search.6th Year, Harry gets a shock. All 5th & 6th year students are being resorted. Yup, another resorting but different. Can Harry save the Slytherins? More Important,can Slytherins save Harry? NOT a Dark!Harry tale.
Warnings: Snape!Mentor
My Warnings: Resorting fic, abuse
Length: 28K, WIP
Snape’s Invisible Friend by teacherbev
Summary: Winner Oct. 2006 HPAA Best AU: Harry rescues himself as a baby and chooses Snape as his protector, why no one knows because the toddler isn’t telling and no one can see him but Snape.
Warnings: No Slash, No Mary Sues, R&R please. PDF, ebook, mobipocket available.
My Warnings/Opinion: Abuse, Powerful!Harry, Harry renamed
Major favorite.
Length: 61K, Complete
Stolen Emerald by dinasamirs
Summary: Snape had loved Lilly. Now Lilly was gone – but not toally. A little tyke with large emerald eyes was still there. All what Snape had to do was steal him.
Warnings: **Warning: Story contains spanking.**
My Warnings: Could use a beta (if nothing else, just to get the spelling of Lily correct . . .” WIP
Stronger Than Hope by Alaunatar
Summary: AU after OoTP, a few HBP details. An obsessed, grieving Harry has decided on a dangerous way to defeat Voldemort. Snape is paying closer attention than before, but his contempt for Harry blinds him.
Warnings: Eventual Snape as Harry’s guardian story. COMPLETE
Length: 162K
There’s More Room In A Broken Heart by Severus redeemed
Summary: Harry is almost 9 when he is rescued & taken to Hogwarts by Severus Snape. Despite his intentions to have nothing more to do with the child, Snape finds himself unable to resist Lily’s child, as they both discover that broken hearts can hold more love.
Length: 43K, WIP
To Have and To Hold by ObsessiveCompulsiveforhp
Summary: When Poppy has finally had enough, Hogwarts undergoes a drastic search and rescue procedure, and secrets are revealed. The aftermath finds Harry bare and exposed, and searching for something to hold.
To Make It All Ok by Bonomania
Summary: When Harry goes back to school the year after Sirius dies, the unlikeliest of people start noticing a change in him.
Warnings: Mentions of child abuse, Dursleys, Draco and more brushes with death.
Length: 31K, WIP
To Shape and Change by Blueowl
Summary: 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.
Length: 157K, WIP
True Confessions by Bratling
Summary: An answer to Potions and Snitches’ Abused Harry challenge and Severitus’s challenge. Secrets are sometimes meant to be shared, and sharing those secrets can sometimes change lives.
Length: 15K, Complete
Tug by Emerald-Leaves
Summary: Harry has an accident, and guess who has to look after him? Why none other than Severus Snape, of course!
Length: 57K, Complete
Unbuttoned by lastcrazyhorn
Summary: Harry doesn’t know exactly what’s happening, but something isn’t right between him and Professor Lupin, and he’s determined to find out why. Will Snape be able to help?
Warnings: Abuse, implied non-con, AU, HP&PA, minor character death, fluff, mentors, adoption, teacher-student relationship
Length: 39K, WIP
Unjust Fear by Laurenke1
Summary: Having managed to find the courage to ask for his book back from Professor Snape, Harry learns that there is a reason everybody fears the Potions Master but can one first year see through his mask of fear to see a teacher he can confide in? AU warning
Length: 113K, WIP
Vows by Zarathustra46
Summary: Severitus taking place between first and second year. Vernon loses it after Dobby drops the cake and he discovers Harry isn’t supposed to do magic at home. Now complete.
Warnings: Chapters 8 – 11 contain strong language and details child abuse/rape.
Length: 117K, Complete
Walk the Shadows by jharad17
Summary: 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?
Warnings: Snape mentors Harry fic. violence,chld abuse,rape
Length: 112K, Complete
What Do We Do Now by momma-dar
Summary: How different would Harry be if he was taken from the Dursley’s when he was 5 and raised by his real father, Severus Snape, and the rest of the Hogwarts staff. And what is the surprise that they get after they bring Harry home. Complete!
Length: 32K
When the World Stands Still by Sentimental Star
Summary: **COMPLETE** AU. Tensions are running high in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Everyone who knows anything knows something is about to happen. And it is in the midst of this that two unlikely people find a little more than a common ground…
Length: 12K
Where Do I Go From Here? by The Ivory Raven
Summary: After a difficult summer, Harry returns to Hogwarts and keeps his homelife a secret. But the new DADA professor leaves him with an even bigger secret to hide. How will he cope, and what does Snape have to do with it all? Warnings: abuse, cutting, depression
Length: 76K, WIP
Yet Another Snape meets the Dursleys story by rabbit and -v-Jinx-v
Summary: When Snape is called to the Dursleys’ by an urgent message, he does not find what he expects to find. Chapter 28: Food arrives, and some unexpected visitors as well. Chapter 29, the revised ending. Chap 30, a lagniappe explaining Snape’s background.
Length: 72K, Complete
