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1. How To Start a Cult in Five Basic Steps by Anitode

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

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   19 Aug 2026

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   • Regulus Black/Severus Snape
   • Sirius Black/Severus Snape
   • Lily Evans Potter/Severus Snape
   • Lucius Malfoy/Severus Snape
   • James Potter/Lily Evans Potter
   • Severus Snape/Everyone
   • James Potter/Severus Snape
   • Remus Lupin/Severus Snape
   • Evan Rosier/Severus Snape
   • Marauders (Harry Potter)
   • Severus Snape
   • Female Severus Snape
   • Self-Insert
   • Isekai and Transmigration
   • Reverse Harem
   • Hogwarts
   • Crack Treated Seriously
   • Capitalism
   • the epic highs and lows of a teenage cult leader
   • for fun
   • Why Did I Write This?
   • Young Severus Snape
   • First Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter)
   • Yearning Propaganda
   • Severus Snape-centric
   • Regulus Black and Sirius Black Angst
   • GIVE ME COMMENTS OR GIVE ME DEATH
   • Insane love triangles
   • Everyone Has a Crush on Severus Snape
   • Teenage Cult Leader
   • Severus Snape Has No Idea She's Attractive
   • weaponized competence
   • Severus Snape is Weirdly Good at Business
   • james potter is going through it
   • Regulus Black Has Several Problems
   • Sirius Black Has Several More
   • Morally Questionable Business Practices
   • Severus Snape Accidentally Starts a Cult
   • The Cult Has Excellent Financial Records
   • Severus Snape Weaponizes Bureaucracy
   • Severus Snape Has Contingency Plans for Her Contingency Plans
   • Severus Snape Has No Game
   • Severus Snape Has Negative Game
   • Everyone Else Has Game
   • Fix-it gone horribly wrong
   • Marauders shenanigans
   • girlbossing too close to the sun
   • Severus Snape Accidentally Invents a Corporation
   • From Rags to Riches Literally
   • Horse Girl Severus Snape
   • Severus Snape vs The Marauders
   • Marauders Era (Harry Potter)
   • Severus Snape Has a Heart
   • Possessive lily evans
   • Possessive Regulus Black
   • These two are gonna despise each other
   • Girlhood

   Summary

   Reincarnating as Severus Snape was not part of the plan.

   Neither was discovering that she was now a young girl once again, attending Hogwarts during the First Wizarding War, surrounded by future Death Eaters, future victims, and Sirius Black's aggressively moisturized face.

   She has three goals: survive, become powerful, and avoid getting involved in canon.

   Unfortunately, being exceptionally good at Potions, possessing suspiciously useful knowledge of the future, and having the emotional availability of a brick apparently makes people think she's some sort of enlightened prophet.

   She doesn't have followers.

   She has friends.

   Friends who bring offerings.

   Friends who take notes when she talks.

   Friends who have started calling her Master.

   ...Oh, for fuck's sake.

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