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1. Daring to Fly by tipsytater

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   19 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Severus Snape/Reader
   • Severus Snape/Original Female Character(s)
   • Severus Snape & Reader
   • Severus Snape & You
   • Severus Snape/You
   • Remus Lupin/Reader
   • Remus Lupin/You
   • Remus Lupin/Original Female Character(s)
   • Remus Lupin & Reader
   • Remus Lupin & You
   • Severus Snape
   • Albus Dumbledore
   • Minerva McGonagall
   • Rubeus Hagrid
   • Harry Potter
   • Ron Weasley
   • Hermione Granger
   • Draco Malfoy
   • Neville Longbottom
   • Pomona Sprout
   • Poppy Pomfrey
   • Hogwarts Students
   • Hogwarts Staff
   • Madam Hooch
   • Remus Lupin
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Alternate Universe - No Voldemort (Harry Potter)
   • Harry Potter is just a normal wizard kid
   • Lily and James Potter still died rip
   • Slow Burn
   • Eventual Romance
   • Eventual Smut
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Angst
   • Severus Snape is Bad at Feelings
   • reader is also bad at feelings
   • They both just awkward af
   • Tags will definitely be added throughout this process
   • Author has maladaptive daydreamed too much and this is the result
   • HEA
   • She/Her Pronouns for Reader-Insert
   • Severus Snape is secretly a softy
   • Trigger warnings will be added when appropriate at start of each chapter
   • Mutual Pining
   • Masturbation

   Summary

   *Takes place in the lovely year of 2025, no-Voldy AU (also an AU where the muggle world isn't completely falling apart right now lmfao)*

   You become a substitute Flying instructor and Quidditch referee per the request of Dumbledore, filling in for Madam Hooch for the school year. Quickly, you find yourself forming a connection with a certain potions professor. Is this the start of a simple friendship or could there maybe be something more? Or, will someone else try to grab your affections first?

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   I have envisioned Reader as being 18 at the time of her graduation from Hogwarts. This story takes place 5 years after, making her 23! Severus is 31 at the time of Reader's substitution at Hogwarts.

   (P.S. screw JKR's beliefs - trans rights forever <3) (P.S.S. please do not run this work through any A.I. programs thank you!!)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   37,911

   Chapters:

   7/?

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