15 Works by Theodorka
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I've Been Defensive Since I Left The Womb by Theodorka
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Sep 2026
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Sirius isn't a coward, he just can't work up the nerve to take anyone home from any of the gay bars he's been haunting week after week. Then he sees something through the hazy smoke-filled gloom that changes his life:
Snivellus in a fucking dress.
Title from the song june 14th by Lauren Auder. Written for Notes of Pride fest.
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At the sound of his father’s voice, Teddy’s whine echoes out from inside a large cauldron, where he pretends to be a potion.
“I’m sorry. Again.” Lupin looks a little more put together than usual. He’s even wearing a color besides his usual ‘dirt footpath brown’ and ‘flavorless gruel grey’ that he’s taken for his mourning colors. Severus thinks burgundy suits him.
More than grief does, at least.
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It is, you think, too gorgeous of a day to bury your father. Unfortunately, life goes on. One day you’re imprisoned at the bottom of the sea trying not to lose your mind, and the next, you’re plotting for your future against the backdrop of a burial. The key to surviving both: keeping your wits about you.
No one gets to choose the weather.
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Reader is finishing up a five-year sentence in a wizarding prison at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when she consents to an arranged marriage and is shipped off across the sea with her new husband, while on temporary release to attend her father's funeral to settle the debts he left behind. Reader doesn't have a name, but does have a background and family members.
INFO: Your parents are dead (condolences). You're American (condolences x2). You killed someone in an illegal duel at school in your final year and were sent to prison for it (you deserve it). You are not physically described beyond having hair (to have it stroked). Since prison, you have thalassophobia, a fear of squids (valid), and a fear of the dark. But you're not insane, and you definitely learned your lesson down there (didn't you?).
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“There isn’t going to be a next time,” Remus said, pulling on his robe then cloak, and doing up the buttons.
“What?” Both the question and the sincerity of it escaped Severus before he could think better of them. Heat and shame rose to his cheeks as he heard how it sounded, even as the burgundy crushed velvet hanging all along the walls—eaten through in places and giving the effect what went on in the room was watched by hundreds of black, glittering eyes—swallowed the impact of his words. It wasn’t a question so much a fervent denial of what Severus clearly hoped he misheard.
“I’m seeing someone.” Remus said it casually as he finished buttoning his cloak. He looked around Severus where he stood in front of the vanity mirror to fix his hair. “It was fun though. While it lasted.” Remus finished with his hair, didn’t meet Severus’ gaze, refused to look at the expression on his face, turned, and left the boudoir.
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“Most would play the virgin a little straighter—lean into the innocence. Not you?”
“I’m a lot of things, Professor Karkaroff. Innocent isn’t one of them.” He would see the Mark on his arm before long, if this went ahead. There was little point in pretending otherwise.
“You won’t pretend?”
“Do you want me to?”
“…No. I’ll have you as you are, malenkaya voronushka.”
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Prompt: Through his Death Eater connections, Severus learns of a way to get a leg up in his Potions career. All he has to do is convince Igor Karkaroff to make the introduction--meaning all Severus has to do, is make it worth his while. -
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After the DADA professor had a strange reaction to his last Wolfsbane potion, where his lupine instincts had him tearing apart his classroom, Severus is tasked with dogsitting outside the castle to ensure Remus gets enough exercise this time around without being discovered…
Written for the Secrets in the Staffroom Flash Fest
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Severus was plating the eggs when it dawned on him—quite suddenly and enough to make him freeze, that Remus Lupin, the man he’d been living with for six months now after he’d saved Severus from the unhinged serpentine jaw of death during the Battle for Hogwarts, after he’d worked out the truth of what really happened to Dumbledore before anyone else had and, in confronting Severus when he’d been headmaster, kissed him and promised he would not let Severus die—believed Severus asexual.
Severus blinked at the eggs. They stared back at him, eyeless and indifferent, steaming silently in the quiet kitchen and utterly oblivious to the psychological crisis they had just instigated. He set the pan aside, the cast iron clinking against the countertop, and leaned forward on his elbows. He closed his eyes and massaged his temples.
How did this happen? Severus thought, and a barrage of remembered deflections when Remus had attempted to touch him over the past six months answered the call.
Ah. Right.
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In which Severus Snape gets therapy and deals with his post-traumatic touch repulsion. Self-indulgent angsty fluff written entirely for the author's benefit.
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- Part 2 of Permafrost
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Petunia Evans is trying to live her best life in spite of being herself, when her sister moves back home to plan her wedding to James Potter and overshadow Petunia at every given opportunity. Though dating a junior executive who works for her boss, Petunia fears, as her boss candidly points out one summer evening, that Vernon will make her unhappy until death do they part. Trying to claw back anything to hold over her sister, Petunia hatches a plot when she meets Severus Snape on a bridge returning from the train station one night: break up Lily and her fiance and have her marry Severus instead, all so Lily won't marry before her and Petunia can lord her amazing life over her once Lily's miserable and married to Severus. Though loathing Petunia on principle, Severus agrees the best thing for Lily is to get her away from Potter--and out of the line of fire in the quickly escalating Wizarding War. Together, they put aside their differences for a common cause; one hoping to ruin Lily, and the other trying to save her, as Petunia further plots how to make the most of her life instead of merely making do as she's expected.
Lily gets everything, after all. Why should she get the happily ever after too?
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You and Severus have an arrangement.
Twice a month, you come in from Merlin knows where, crates laden with Merlin knows what, and top off Severus’ ingredient stores. Occasionally, you source something particular for him and you don’t ask any questions. The cold, expressionless Potions Master dips into the Potions Department budget and you can pay your rent and bills and feed yourself for a while.
That’s not the arrangement.
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Reader is an unskilled laborer working as the potion ingredient supplier for the Hogwarts Potions Master, who she's also fucking; partly to sweeten the deal so he keeps buying from her, but mostly because she really, really, likes it.
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9 January 1960
The baby came. During the witching hour, because of course he would. Toby noticed me glancing toward the clock as the midwife tidied up. Asked if the boy was unfashionably early, all smiling. He’s so proud. Gran used to say nothing pleased men more than proof they’re men, and she was right. Never seen Toby smile quite like this, nor seen anything near it since our wedding neither. About the clock, I didn’t know how to answer him, so I didn’t. Must’ve thought me worn out, I suppose. He told me to sleep and he’d wake me when the baby needed to eat.
So I slept. Suppose he didn’t have to wonder why I kept so quiet, for once. I never know what to say when he gets to asking about all I can’t answer.
His name is Severus. Toby doesn’t care for it. Were I cleverer, neither would I. Should name him William or Peter or Thomas or Henry or James, something proper and regular.
Then were I cleverer, I wouldn’t be here to begin with.
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Ianuarius Nonus: the ninth of January. A series of diary entries penned on Severus Snape's birthday, from the diaries of both mother and son. Written for the Snape Birthday Challenge 2026 Collection.
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- Part 1 of Permafrost
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In his seventh year, Severus' six year old brother, Icarus goes missing the night Eileen and Tobias murder each other. When Icarus turns up twelve years later, the mind of a boy in the body that grew without it, Severus initially welcomes the responsibility of providing for the brother he failed to protect and find as penance. When he begins to learn that his brother's belief in a dream world and a monster he claims murdered their parents are not merely the products of a traumatized child's mind, but the truth, the two begin to grow apart soon after they're reunited. Though Severus seeks to protect him from a world he is not ready to face, Icarus inevitably lashes out in pursuit of independence his brother thinks him yet too much a child to bear.
Good with animals, Charlie finds Icarus is one which is frightened and confused, but more capable than he first appears. Alienated from his peers for 'giving up' on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and the ever mounting evidence that he cannot be the captain, brother and son everyone expects him to be, Charlie welcomes Icarus' insistent company & his tales of dreams and monsters. As time passes, that connection grows in Romania and beyond, into something greater.
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Severus blinked at his fingernails, realizing that when he’d made this promise to Dumbledore, he didn’t think he’d live very long, not even to middle-age. At the time, he hadn’t even wanted to live to his next birthday, but now…at the far end of the hall, through his tented fingers, Severus watched Kasimir stroll into the Great Hall, wand between his teeth, tying his long hair up in a messy bun as he walked—and Severus realized he no longer wanted to die young. When had that happened? And what did that mean for him? For him and for Kasimir? For Albus? And for Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived?
A sequel to Perfect Poison Pearl, taking place during the books.
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- Part 2 of Pearlescence
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During the First Wizarding War, the eldest Weasley daughter, Fiona, is abducted from her grandmother's home during a Death Eater assault. Lord Voldemort destroys the memory of her loving family so He becomes all she knows. After two years, when Fiona's Lord Father leaves his manor one day and never returns, she leaves the only home she knows only to learn it was never hers at all. Against the better judgement of healers and in an attempt to appease her need for control, Arthur Weasley honors Fiona's wish to keep her memories of the man she once called Lord Father.
With her understanding of love and power defined by a source so far removed from humanity, she retreats into her genius, cherishing the control that her talents provide and finding herself at home in the political underbelly of the wizarding world's academic elite. Can she blaze a path to power through machinations worthy of her late Lord Father without shattering the connection to those who have loved and lost her once before? Can she reconcile thirst for control against the desire to be seen—to understand and be understood in turn when she cannot reconcile within herself what the Dark Lord wrought all those years ago?
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The man shambles out into the moonlight; he looks up at the sky, toward the aurora.
Poor fool, you think. Clearly, the man is lost. But when are wizards not lost? Have you ever seen one ask for directions?
Still, it is a good sign, you think, sipping on your spiced, mulled wine. A wizard, at least, can survive on his own. You need not go rescue some fool Muggle lost in the antarctic wastes this night. You need not save them from the creatures which only hunt at night, beneath the aurora. You need not warn the International Confederation of Wizards that Muggles are turning up beneath the long Antarctic night again, reminding them of the doom that sleeps beneath ice no matter how much they’d rather forget. A wizard, at least, knows the risks. A wizard, at least, is none of your concern.
The man looks back up at the aurora.
Poor fool. Go home. Go away.
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Featuring a hermit herbologist reader in her mid-20s living in Antarctica. 1986 / Post-First Wizarding War. Severus is a 26 year-old Hogwarts Potions Master looking for a rare ingredient at the end of the world. E for Eventual Explicit Sex.
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The second time Severus met Kasimir, the man was wearing a dress.
Severus didn’t recognize him initially as he entered the Hog’s Head—the willowy youth had let his hair down from the messy pile usually stacked on top of his head, secured in a bun. Instead, it spilled over his shoulders in smooth waves. He’d also shaved the ever-present stubble from his face and wasn’t wearing his reading glasses, on his face or perched atop his head.
And he was wearing a dress, of course.
It fit him well. Long-sleeved with a high neck, a loose fit skirt that fell to the knees, it wasn’t a particularly enticing ensemble.
(not that Severus was evaluating it thusly; it was merely an objective, distant observation, disentangled from subjective preference because Severus Snape didn’t have a preference, subjective or otherwise, for men in dresses)
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Twenty-three year old Severus makes a friend and falls in love. Learns to love himself a bit. Puts on a strand of pretty, pretty pearls. Takes place over three years.Series
- Part 1 of Pearlescence