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Seven months after surviving the Shrieking Shack, Severus Snape wants only two things: the silence of his laboratory and to pay his debt to the dead. He has turned Spinner’s End into a fortress and views his life as a ledger of sins.
But on a freezing New Year’s Eve, the world intrudes in the form of a fifteen-year-old Muggle runaway in active labor. Fleeing a predatory "charity" that magic didn't create, Sophie Elizabeth Collins finds sanctuary with the least likely man in Britain.
As Severus learns to navigate the terrifying vulnerability of unexpected survival, Harry Potter fights a war of his own in Courtroom Ten—battling to save a man who is determined to execute his own reputation. A story of moral injury, the weight of the "Greater Good," and the radical grace found in a house that was once defined by despair.
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I made use of AI in writing this story. I know that many people find the use of AI in creative endeavors controversial, so I don't want to mislead anyone about the creation of this narrative. All of the plot is mine. All of the original characters are mine. I used AI to help scaffold some scenes to get started when I had writer's block.
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When Severus Snape dies in the Shrieking Shack, he expects it to be the end.
Instead, he wakes in Godric’s Hollow on the night Lily Potter dies—years younger, with full memory of everything that followed. This time, he doesn’t step back. This time, he takes the child.
With Harry Potter in his care, Snape sets out to change a future he knows too well—one shaped by war, manipulation, and a boy raised to die. But protecting Harry means stepping outside both the Dark Lord’s reach and Dumbledore’s design, and into alliances Snape has never trusted.
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10 Jul 2026
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After Harry blows up Aunt Marge, Dumbledore decides it's not safe for Harry to spend the rest of the summer at the Leaky Cauldron, and instead sends him to stay at Spinner’s End with Professor Snape.
It's tense, awkward, and teeming with misunderstandings...but it might be the best thing that's happened to either of them. They're both been without a family for a very long time.
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- Part 1 of Bruised Words
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06 Jul 2026
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In the summer preceding his 5th year, Harry’s forced into a trip with the Dursleys to Spinner’s End to meet one of Petunia’s old friends, and while he’s there, he gets hit by a car.
The author wants you to consider Harry’s luck. No, seriously, ruminate on it for a second. Now, the author wants you to guess who might’ve just run him over.
Yeah. That’s right. Severus Snappy himself.
Oh man. Sure do wonder what’ll happen next.
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06 Jul 2026
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Several months after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and his friends are figuring out how to best live lives that do not revolve around defeating evil lords. They are possibly not great at it. A post-DH, Snape-Mentors-Harry (Or, Tries To) Story.
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- Part 1 of Mason Jars
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06 Jul 2026
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A Lesson In Driving and Dying by OutriderIvyHill22
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Jul 2023
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Ever learned how to drive with a really anxious, uptight adult in the car? Yeah, Harry gets a crash course (hopefully not literally.)
Snape, tortured and half-dead, appears on Harry's doorstep. Now it's up to Harry to get him to HQ before he bleeds out.
Mostly just Harry driving really badly and Snape ready to throw himself in front of a bus rather than sit through another minute of it.
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06 Jul 2026