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"There was a fine line between bravery and stupidity. Severus had spent his entire childhood in the Snape household avoiding that line, but he wondered how often Potter toed the line in the Dursley home. The boy was walking on the edge of a cliff, knowing full well what may happen if the winds pushed too hard."
Severus was sent to check on Potter the summer of Voldemort's resurrection. He just didn't expect a long lost part of him to relate to the boy.
Update: A four part fic where Snape realises that the boy he's hated for years might be a lot more similar to him than he expected
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Harry's greatest task in life is done, and he's got nothing left but time. Time to spend with the people he loves, to carry on with the career he's always wanted, to enjoy the freedom he was sure he would never get to have.
Only thing is - devils both within and without aren't too keen on staying dormant, and sometimes freedom just feels like a noose around the neck.
It turns out dying and getting your soul ripped apart is a bit hard to get over, in more ways than one.
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07 Dec 2025
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Harry Potter and the Path to Martyrdom by egotistica
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Jan 2026
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Harry Potter stiffened beneath the soft leather of the Sorting Hat. There was something so intrinsically wrong with the feeling of the cloth on his head that he had half the mind to fling it across the room.
Before he could do anything, the utter wrongness rose to a crescendo until, finally, a voice spoke.
Not Slytherin, ey? Well, we'll have to see about that.
In which Harry Potter is hungry for recognition, power, and success - anything to prove that he is more than his infant self. In turn, he is sorted into Slytherin. Events spiral.
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As the summer stretches on, Harry feels a change within him. He hadn’t realized how hard he’d clung to his childhood innocence until it was ripped from him too soon. It died in that cemetery along with Cedric Diggory. He feels the gaping wound it left behind. It’s fleshy and tender and aching. Bitterness fills it.
What once was raw and vulnerable crystallizes into something much more solid and resolute. He imagines the weeping flesh around his heart becoming smooth, black marble.
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Harry is formally expelled from Hogwarts after the dementor incident at the end of summer. Upon his re-enrollment, he must suffer the sorting hat once more. Everyone he knows thinks it’s a ridiculous formality that will end with him being placed back in Gryffindor. Harry’s not sure he shares their confidence.Something has shifted inside him after the events of the graveyard; or maybe it’s been broken. Either way, he feels changed. This, along with other developments over the summer leave him wondering if he no longer fits into his old house. He’s got bigger things to worry about, though. Besides, what difference does it make, which house he’s in?
As it turns out, it makes all the difference.
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AU. The Potter twins survive Voldemort’s attack. However, Albus Dumbledore knows that the root cause of the war, pureblood bigotry and hatred against Muggles and Muggleborns, will endure even if Voldemort never returns. He therefore asks Lily and James to send one of their sons to grow up in the Muggle world while training the other to battle Voldemort, so that together the twins can smooth over the differences between the magical and Muggle worlds in the political arena. And perhaps it might have worked, if not for abusive Dursleys, Harry’s inability to fit into the magical world or his family when he learns of his heritage, and a boy named Theodore Nott.
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“But, love—,” this time she drew her hand away from Harry’s and instead tapped at his narrow chest, her finger gnarled by a severe case of arthritis. “Will always outnumber hatred. Our strongest rebellion is happiness.”
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Harry suddenly finds himself struggling with the aftermaths of sexual assault, he must find a way to conceal his own emotions while also maintaining the Golden Boy image that is known with him.
Severus Snape, after ‘a bit’ of endless arguing, just sees a boy desperate for control.