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The Bird of Paradise Could Never Reach Paradise by VivianMorgan for Severus Snape
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Jan 2026
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The Bird of Paradise flower—a splash of brief color in a bleak childhood, a gilded trophy in a manor, a forgotten relic in a library, a final gift at a doorstep. Severus Snape's life intersects with this impossible flower at every turn, a silent witness to all that is beautiful, fragile, and never meant to be his. From Spinner's End to the Shrieking Shack and beyond, a story about what survives.
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25 Feb 2026
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Every muscle goes tense as her golden head droops onto his shoulder, her downy hair a perfect pillow, her expression soft and relaxed.
Alastor’s eyes go wide, his mouth parting as he hisses in a breath- and then he freezes.
He does not like physical contact. Doesn’t enjoy the sensation of hands touching his form, doesn’t like the intrusion upon his personal space, the violation that a hand on a back provides, the prickle that a pat on the shoulder brings.
But this- somehow this is different.
Or: Charlie falls asleep on Alastor’s shoulder.
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02 Dec 2025
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Father's Day is coming up, and Charlie wants to bake her dad the perfect gift for it. But baking isn't her forte, so she asks Alastor for help.
Alastor doesn't care one whit about Father's Day. But this proves to be an interesting challenge for his culinary skills, so he agrees.
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02 Dec 2025
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True Crime is all the rage among the living. When Charlie learns about a blockbuster smash-hit sensation of a film released above about their very own Alastor, serial killer of New Orleans, she’s determined to turn it into a bonding opportunity. Now all she has to do is get a hold of the film, and convince Alastor to watch it with them.
Nothing can go wrong with this plan.
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01 Dec 2025
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Voldemort was dead.
The war was won.
All was well.Then our hero woke up and it was the morning of his eleventh birthday.
Oh, did I say hero? I meant Severus Snape. Severus Snape woke up and it was the morning of his eleventh birthday.
This had not been the plan.
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- 63,981
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- 18/?
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13 Sep 2025
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When Albus Severus Potter opens his Hogwarts letter, he remembers.
Returning to Hogwarts, he must confront both old and new faces, trying to keep his memories and abilities secret.
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“Of course you can’t teach yet,” Minerva replied, an oh-so-innocent smile plastered on her face, “But I’m just reminding you to keep your options open after you graduate. I’ll be needing a permanent Potions Master.”Bookmarked by O_whisp
13 Sep 2025
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When Harry finds an injured Snape on his doorstep and must hide him from the Dursleys, he has no idea that this very, very bad day will be the start of something good.
Harry and Snape are thrown together by annoying relatives, a series of strange dreams, and Voldemort's latest hunt for Harry, but their greatest challenge may well be surviving each other. This will be a long summer unless the two can find a way to work together. A slow-burn enemy-to-mentor story.
Alternate 6th summer (and part of the school year): post-OotP; ignores HBP and DH. No slash, no romance. NOW COMPLETE!
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- English
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- 373,223
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- 61/61
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13 Aug 2025
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Public Bookmark 114
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Let's assume Alastor has a heart. :D
Individual stories.
*update: I’m moving this whole series to an anonymous collection because I’m worried someone from work might find my account through it, but that doesn’t mean I’m stopping my writing. ;D
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- 134,505
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- 3
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- 114
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13 Oct 2024
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Harry didn’t know how to feel. On one hand, he had gotten multiple presents for the first time from multiple people, signaling that he now had multiple people in his life who cared about him. On the other, Santa had never neglected him before, and the idea was more than a little disappointing.
Perhaps… Perhaps he had been wrong? Maybe Ron and Dursleys and all the kids in primary school had been right, and there was no such thing as Santa Claus?
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If nothing else, Harry had always received a gift from Santa. When his first Christmas at Hogwarts lacks a visit from Old Saint Nick, Harry's dour Potions Professor to provide some insight on the matter and inadvertently, himself.
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- Part 9 of Art’s Bad Things Happen Bingo
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- English
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- 2,049
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- 1/1
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13 Oct 2024
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Due to one of Dumbledore's great ideas, Severus finds himself stuck at Azkaban on career day with his fellow sixth-year Slytherins and Gryffindors. However, what was meant to be a routine field trip takes a turn for the worse when an escape plan by a group of criminals goes awry, leaving the Hogwarts students trapped in the prison as tensions rise and secrets unravel.
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- 50,655
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- 15/?
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13 Oct 2024
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AU. Harry only defeated Voldemort because he wanted a good night’s sleep. Snape-mentors-Harry.
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- 6,441
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13 Oct 2024
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Severus survives the war but finds himself limited as he recovers from his injuries - a mixture of the snakebite and lasting nerve/mental damage from the Cruciatus Curse. Unable to be as solitary as he once was, he finds himself opening to people that his former self would have been disgusted at. And also he has a cat - which would be enough to draw me in.
Yes, this will follow the 'canon' set in place by Moonstone, the fic this is inspired by. You have been warned!
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01 Oct 2024
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It's Not the Waking it's the Rising by GenevieveOHara
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Jan 2023
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Snape had known this day was inevitable. He had know the Dark Lord wasn't dead and that he was waiting for the correct time to rise again. He had known that he would have to return to the Death Eaters as a spy. The risks were immense, but he knew he had little choice in the matter if he was ever to be free.
A short story of Snape's return to Voldemort after the end of the Goblet of Fire. Starts on the night of the Third Task.Bookmarked by O_whisp
01 Oct 2024
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Marching to Death's Door (Harry Potter) by BiniBean
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Jun 2021
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Snape realizes after the conclusion of yet another awful Death Eater meeting that he might soon be discovered a spy. He, then, returns to the Order of the Pheonix headquarters to deliver the news.
"He was a very private person. Only Albus Dumbledore was aware of his love for Lilly Potter. The Order of the Phoenix, the arrogant group of light go-getters who took everything he did for granted. They didn't trust him. Well, most of them didn't. Molly Weasley trusted him. But that was mostly because Albus Dumbledore trusted him. Remus Lupin trusted him. That was because he had a guilt complex. Minerva McGonagall trusted him. That was because they worked together and she didn't want to deal with a new head of house for Slytherin next year.
At least that is what he assumed as he stumbled out of the Malfoy Manor, holding his side that had blood seeping into his black clothes. He gritted his teeth. Doing his best to ignore the pain of the latest insults, the Cruciatus curse, and having his own spell Sectumsempra used against him and other death eaters during the meeting.
He was a complete and utter fool."
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01 Oct 2024
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Just before his eleventh birthday, Harry is found in a dark London alleyway. He is subsequently taken to stay in the home of one Severus Snape until he begins Hogwarts. Harry isn't quite sure what possessed him to agree to this arrangement, and Severus has no intention of allowing Potter's unfortunate progeny to get under his skin, but this is a Severitus fic, we all know how it ends.
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- 217,906
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- 60/60
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- 37
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01 Oct 2024
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No one in their right mind would want to be in Slytherin House after the Battle of Hogwarts. So why is a certain Slytherin hero - who was supposed to be heroically, safely, dead - showing up back at the school?
He's certainly not saying.
Inspired by evilbean's prompt: "Has someone ever read a fic were Snape just kinda shows up a few days/weeks after the final battle and resume his life without any explanation of why he’s alive and everyone is losing their mind over it but the bastard won’t answer to any question about it seriously?"
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- English
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- 21,906
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- 11/11
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30 Sep 2024
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Something to store ideas that have been bugging me for ages. Mug-verse comes from the mug on the first part of the series, because why not. I'll try to make it as IC as I can but Mug!Snape will be a little protective of his students(Much more than in canon) and the Slytehrins aren't all Death Eater Wannabes.
This is also a test for myself on improving my writing, especially writing humour. I'm just not a funny person but I try. Any comments are welcomed
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- 11,536
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30 Sep 2024
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I mean the description says it all. It's Snape...as Headmaster...well mostly.
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30 Sep 2024
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Upon surviving the Battle of Hogwarts, Severus Snape is at a loss. For nearly twenty years, he devoted his life to defeating the Dark Lord and protecting Harry Potter. Now, with the war over and the Boy-Who-Lived safe, he finds he has precious little left to fight for — until a chance therapy session shows him that he ought to be fighting for himself.
With the war coming to a close and Wizarding Britain starting to rebuild, Severus starts on a journey to find meaning and joy in a life that’s given him little of either, discovering what it truly means to value himself and his own happiness.
(Translation in Russian at the end of the first chapter!)
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- Part 2 of “The Courage to Live” Universe
- Part 1 of The Fledglings
- Part 1 of No Dying Required
- Part 1 of Becoming Me
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- English
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- 704,711
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- 69/69
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30 Sep 2024
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Taking place directly after the Battle of Hogwarts Harry is trying to deal with his trauma from the course of the events of the war and struggles to confront it, along with trying to manage his grief. Snape survived but disappeared in shame and remorse after the battle. Harry finds him, and they both discover that they have more in common now more than ever - Both are struggling with their sense of self and purpose. But stray Death Eaters from the battle are re-grouping for a final stand to take out the great Harry Potter, and their traitor, and Harry and Snape must put aside their differences to end the fight once and for all, whilst also dealing with Snape's illness along the way. No slash. Explores darker themes of grief, self-blame, PTSD, depression, and suicidal ideation.
I dedicate this story to my father who passed from a long battle with cancer at 61 years old on 15/03/2023 - whose journey was the inspiration for this story. xx
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- Language:
- English
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- 444,427
- Chapters:
- 66/66
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30 Sep 2024