Snarry-Majority Severus Fic Recs
Part One
For Auld Lang Syne:
1.
Should old acquaintance be forgot?
Severus' grand plans for a quiet afterlife are thwarted when the last person on Earth he wants to see stumbles in out of the cold. Rating for future parts of this series.
2.
A Cup of Kindness
Harry is having problems coming to terms with adulthood. He calls on the only person in the world he can talk to about it.
3.
Many a Weary Foot
Harry gets accustomed to married life and parenthood, while trying to ignore an increasingly persistent attraction toward men. The secrets Severus keeps to maintain his quiet life are threatened.
4.
Ce n’est qu’un au revoir
The concluding part of FALS series. Change is the only constant. Sooner or later, everything crumbles. Can Harry and Severus find the will to pick up the pieces? Warning that it's always darkest before the dawn.
Memory’s Pale Reflection
After an incident wipes 17 years of Severus' memories he must attempt to recover them with Harry's help. Through viewing a series of his apparent husband's pensieve memories he learns how they came to be a couple and tries to adjust to the life he is now living.
The Splinch
More than forty years into their relationship, all Severus and Harry seem to do is get on each other's nerves. When a potions accident leaves them stranded and in a dire predicament, Severus may have to do the unthinkable: talk about his feelings.
It’s Not Even Halloween
It's quickly becoming clear that if Harry doesn't kill the transfer student, Severus probably will.
With Aloha
Severus and Harry are booked on the same gay singles cruise.
A-Camping We Will Go
Harry and Severus are forced to help chaperone the annual Muggle Studies camping trip.
Symmetry and Murder
Severus has been going steady with Potter for six months now, taking what pleasure he can from what is clearly a sting operation to uncover his non-existent illegal brewing enterprise. Then Harry confesses his love. He insists that he really did retire as an auror, and that he thought they were dating for real this whole time, and he's willing to go public to prove it. He organises a last-minute Murder Mystery night and invites Severus as his official date. Hijinks ensue.
Chords of Affection
Severus is distracted by his newest admirer.
Prompt: 2024-130 - When the bartender says 'Someone bought you a drink' both Severus & Lucius assume it's for Lucius. Both are surprised when they're told it's for Severus. Lucius pushes Sev to talk to the gorgeous green-eyed man staring at him with a glass raised. (Lucius ships snarry).
The Beating of this Fragile Heart
After the war, the last thing Severus Snape needs is the memory of a fleeting wartime kiss and a very persistent Harry Potter thwarting his plans to live a peaceful and solitary life. It’s only when Harry’s life is endangered that Severus is finally forced to confront his feelings head on.
His Heart’s Desire
When Severus returns from a week away, Harry realises just how much he’s missed him.
Endgame
Harry discovers an intriguing spell in his copy of Advanced Potion-Making, and takes up correspondence with the talented, grouchy Half-Blood Prince.
He also discovers that it is possible to fall in love through parchment and ink.
Date in a Dash
Harry and Severus accidentally attend the same speed dating event.
Needs Must
After Ginny Potter dies suddenly, Severus Snape is among those called in to help Potter juggle his new reality.
As the other helpers fade away, a desperate and penniless Severus agrees to become the regular caregiver to Potter's three young children.
But Severus finds that the Potter household is not the sunshine and roses he'd imagined.
Written in the Stars
Rome was not built in a day, but neither did it burn down in only one.
a soft epilogue
"I think we deserve
a soft epilogue, my love.
We are good people
and we've suffered enough."
-nikka ursula, “Seventy Years of Sleep #4”
Severus and Harry start again.
Requiem at Dusk
Harry would do anything for his son, even follow in Orpheus’ footsteps.
Rapture
Snape sees the man, for the first time, on his twenty-fifth birthday.
Blood but also Roses
A brief, angsty sequel to "Rapture." Snape finds the words to ask for what he wants.
However I Fall
In one timeline, Severus lives. In the other, he dies.
In both, he falls in love.
Morior Animus (not tagged Snarry)
"That was his gift, you know? Happy endings... " He wanted to believe that. He really did. But he knew better.
Whispers of Intent
Auror Harry Potter has a life changing encounter at a bar.
dare not speak its name
Some are born a Slytherin, some achieve a level of Slytherin-ness, and some have a Slytherin thrust upon them. a "what if Harry was sorted into Slytherin" AU.
Green Grow the Rushes, O!
A bittern’s bull-song on Christmas Eve
Chrysalis
In which Harry is a tad messed up after the war, but Snape gives him a run for his money. Or: an epic tale of PTSD, recovery and gay porn! (For detailed warnings, please see author's notes.)
The Still Year
Severus wakes up after the war, but that had never been part of the plan.
He's lost, but he's not the only one who has to find himself now Voldemort is defeated...
Or: how Severus learned how to choose life.
Theory of Transference (WIP with one chapter to go; updated 19.05.26)
In 1998, Lord Voldemort captured Harry Potter, won the war against the Muggles, and transformed Great Britain into Britannia Magica. Given the choice between rotting in a cell forever and joining him, Harry surrendered and took the Mark.
Five years later, Harry lives captive in Malfoy Manor while the war with Europe rages on. He kills his time by pacing the gardens, smoking with Draco Malfoy, and occasionally indulging in harder substances.
Life changes again when Voldemort discovers a ritual that could potentially transfer Harry's magic to another wizard. To test this ritual, he gives Harry to Severus Snape.
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Severus moved to the bed. What a hero, he thought, staring down at the boy. The Chosen One, the Boy who Lived.
Such crap. He was a child, even at twenty-three.
A stupid, wretched, shamefully daft, monumentally unlucky child.
“Lie down,” Severus told him.
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This story is heavily inspired by the scarcely documented opioid crisis in Germany’s nazi party. Multiple characters are high-functioning laudanum and/or morphine addicts.
Byzantium
Albus weathers Severus's displeasure after the events of Sirius's escape.
In the Darkest of Nights, I Found You Trembling
“My type, Mister Potter… Is the deadly green of the Unforgivable…” Severus’s voice was rumbling low in the pit of Harry’s stomach, tickling his chest, teasing his tongue, lingering on his lips, “My type… is the unruly irritation, the blinding bravery.” The man’s dark eyes stared into Harry’s soul, making him tremble, weakening his knees, “My type…”
Severus stopped there, and his eyes didn’t move away.
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In the dark corridors of Hogwarts, the surviving War Hero and the broken Chosen One encountered, and their life could never be the same again.
In the darkness of sleepless nights, they found each other's broken pieces.
In the darkness of those nights, somehow, they fit perfectly together, and never wanted to part again.
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"Not even Death could do us part."
In the Brightest of Days, You Found Me Falling
“My type, Professor Snape… Is the mysterious black of the Night…” Harry sighed into Severus’s palm, burning his flesh with scorching heat, clenching his heart in a tight grip, spinning his head in a mad swirl, “My type… is the terrifying calmness, the unyielding courage.” The pair of green irises started into Severus’s own, making his bones tingle, melting his resolve, “My type…”
Harry didn’t continue, and there was a kind smile on his lips.
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In the sunlight on Hogwarts’ ground, the newly assigned Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and the Potions Master encountered, and they shared something completely different from what they had anticipated in the past.
In the light of hopeful days, their fingers brushed softly.
In the light of those days, confidently, they found each other, and their gaze never broke apart.
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“I will give you my whole life.”
Covenant
For the 2007 Snarry Games, team Wartime, prompts angst and espionage.
The Mirror
Severus visits an anonymous club for adults and finds more than he could have hoped for.
The Spell for the Lost and Lonely
Happiness, as Severus discovered, was as simple as a warm drink, an engaging read, and an occasionally indulged, rather scandalous fetish for being left alone in the quiet corner with a book. Naturally, such peculiar inclinations made it rather difficult to find a place in London that suited all of his needs.
The Underground satisfied all three.
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The guilty pleasure of a Polyjuiced one-night stand at an underground magical kink club sparks an emotional connection.
Pain and Contradictions
SS/HP. Slash. When Harry begins to break under the pressures of death and prophesy, help arrives from an unlikely quarter: Snape. Despite their own doubts, manipulations from all sides and hapless interventions combine to bring their two souls together.
Snape the Homes Fries Nazi
When Harry defeats Voldemort, all those marked by Voldemort lose their magic. Snape decamps to the United States, where he becomes a fry cook in a diner. Five years after Voldemort's defeat, Harry comes to him for advice. AU, obviously, as Snape was still alive when I wrote this story.
The Boy in the Bushes
Harry has taken to wandering the corridors at night in search of something, but perhaps he wasn't simply searching; perhaps he wanted to be found.
“Is this revenge then?”
“This is love.”
Miles to Go Before I Sleep
For fourteen years after the war, Harry Potter and Severus Snape dance once a year on the winter solstice at a Ministry ball.
Lucky Number Seven
“Can I just call in sick or something?”
Hermione chuckled into her tea. “Call in sick from a binding magical contract? I don’t think so, Harry.”
He wheezed. “A what?”
“Ohh dear.” She said awkwardly. “Well, you’ve agreed to, erm, a magical ceremony. Of sorts. It, it reads your magical signature and determines a list of eligible witches that are best matched to you.”
His stomach sank with every word she said. “And then I, what, have to marry them?”
“Oh no no, don’t worry, not that. But you do have to, erm, date them. The one you choose, from the list.”
"The list. Right."
… In The Giving
Snape’s brow sinks low over his eyes. “Why.”
“Wh—?” Potter blinks twice then groans aloud. “What do you mean, ‘why?’” he says, snorting an incredulous laugh. “God’s sake, Snape, have you never got a gift before?”
Or,
Harry's been giving Snape gifts, each more thoughtful and precious than the last. It takes Snape 22,000 words to figure out why.
Boxes & Baubles
Christmas trees over the first four (and a half) decades of Severus’ life.
The World We Knew - long WIP
When a Death Eater raid kills the Dursleys, the Ministry decides Harry needs a responsible guardian.
He gets a husband instead.
Now trapped in a political marriage, Harry and Severus must learn to coexist as the world outside falls deeper into darkness.
In Time, Once Again
After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry uses a Time Turner in an attempt to rewrite history. However, something goes wrong, and he’s thrown back fourteen years into the past.
Escaping the Paradox
After Harry is thrown back in time to 1971, he has several choices to make.
The Boy Who Died a Lot
Harry’s always been known as The Boy Who Lived. Only Severus knows that this is a lie. (Or: a portrait of Severus Snape, in seven acts.)
The Threefold Death, or: the Lost World (long version) (WIP, 8/x, updated 10.4.26)
If Snape is the tempter, the serpent in the garden seducing Harry away from his family, then what is Al? His father's rival, or the only one strong enough to save him? But as Al will find out, you can't save everyone. Sometimes you have to choose - and sometimes magic chooses for you.
Post Mortem
"You're disgusting," Potter quietly bit out.
It was an insult, so why did that mouth-watering heat race downward like he'd been called brilliant and wonderful and all things nice?
"And what does that make of you, I wonder?"
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A tale of hero worship and failing to pretend.
Riddle of the Midnight Sky
Harry Potter takes care of a man he hates in a broken universe.
The Price of Admission
In his final year at Hogwarts, Harry is determined to prove he’s more than just James Potter’s son, and that means earning a place in Snape’s Advanced Defense class. As mutual respect turns into something far more. A shadow from the past begins targeting Harry with calculated, magical attacks.
Someone wants Harry dead.
As the bond between Harry and Snape deepens, so does the danger, and soon, survival will require more than just skill. It’ll demand trust, sacrifice… and secrets neither of them are ready to face.
Grading Papers
Harry only wanted a quiet evening in Snape’s chambers.
Honest.
Unfortunately, the man was grading, the fire was dying, and Harry was bored enough to start trouble.
Quickly, he finds himself getting a lesson in “marking techniques” he definitely wasn’t prepared for.
Quidditch Madness
Severus had never understood the wizarding world’s obsession with Quidditch.
But Harry loves it…
Performance on the Platform
Harry sneaks into the dungeon for a perfectly reasonable late-night experiment.
It is purely academic. Entirely professional.
Naturally things get out of hand. The duel gets heated. Harry pushes. Severus snaps. And by the end of it, they both agree that The Advanced Defence classroom is never going to feel quite the same again.
An Incident in Defense
Theodore Nott makes the unfortunate mistake of flirting with Harry after a test in the seventh year Advanced Defence class.
Severus, of course, handles this development with the maturity and professionalism he is so well known for.
the funny thing about grief and time
Later, Harry will start telling people he fell in love with Severus after the war.
It will not quite be a lie.
Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promises (WIP 18/50, updated 18.5.26, severitus, no snarry)
Harry was angry.
Sometimes he thought that’s all he was: a ball of fiery rage, bottled so tightly that it exploded in regular intervals. Every other emotion glossed over. Anger was all he knew.
No, that wasn’t right. He also knew fear. Visceral, suffocating fear.
Or: Severus Snape finds out about the Dursley's
Classic Severus Snape becomes Harry Potter's parental figure fic. Mind the tags!!! I will continue to update them as I update the story.
Loose Ends
I love you, Severus wants to say. But the timing is never right.
Painted in the Worst Light
Severus survived Nagini's bite and is now on trial before the Wizengamot. Due to a weird loophole in the law books, he has the right to choose any Ministry employee to defend him, and he chooses Auror-trainee, Harry Potter.
In Between Days
Snape kidnaps/rescues a clinically depressed Harry from the Dursleys, but nothing is quite what it seems.
Maybe Someday
Sequel to 'In Between Days,' in which Snape and Harry deal with the fallout from Voldemort's defeat.
Nocte, pōnam iuxta tu . . . in necromanticis peccātō
It started so innocently. First, that kiss. We never kissed in life, but I didn’t think He’d mind. After all, He’s dead.
The next day, the kiss lingered. My hands strayed to the wavy ends of His hair. It was soft, though I’m not sure why I’m surprised. Still. Our lips only touched.
Until they didn’t.
Or, Harry Potter's good luck had to run out eventually.
Sadness of Eros
The open palm of desire wants everything* or, Harry cheats.
Non-AO3:
Care and Feeding of your Severus Snape
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Bottoms Up
SLASH Snape and Lupin wake up the morning after and find they share an odd inclination. SS-RL COMPLETE
old fires and phantom limbs
“A long moment passes. And then he steps out of the shadows of the surrounding shops and into the bright sunlight, walking up to you.
"You came back," you say bluntly, unable to look away.
"Yeah." He shuffles his feet a bit, slips his hands in his pockets in such a familiar way that a pang of deep fondness strikes through your chest. "Last week," he adds.
It seems impossible that he would have been back in the country for days and you wouldn't have sensed it somehow. How could his presence not send shockwaves all the way to Spinner's End? How could you not know, in your heart of hearts, the instant that he returned?
The white road
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 45,044
Pairing: Snape/Harry, also Lily/Snape in a totally unconsummated sense, Lily/James
Warnings: Hettishness but no outright heterosex, voyeurism, accidental incestuous overtones, a bloody moment. I'm sure, in some universe, this is epilogue compliant.
Disclaimer: Is not, never was, never will be, mine
Summary: One day, comfortably set up in the afterlife, Lily Evans Potter switches on the telly and gets hooked on the Harry Potter show.
So Lonely Without Me
Why did you join them?”
Severus stretches out on the bed. A bead of sweat rolls back into his hair. “Why do you want to know?”
“Because I’m curious. Because I want to know more about you than how you like your eggs seasoned.”
His legs feel like boysenberry jam. “All right, Potter. Do you want the drawn-out, silly, cliché response that I gave to Albus, or do you want the truth?”
“…Can I hear both?”
He shifts. “Basically I told Albus it was because of the fame, the power, money, family, peer pressure, revenge, so on, so forth.”
“That isn’t the truth?”
“A collection of plausible motivations, but not the real reason.”
Harry slithers closer on the sheets. “What’s the real reason?”
“They asked.”
Sanguis-Vinculum
A potions accident creates a blood bond between Harry and Snape. It takes them 68,000+ words for them to work it out.
Wish List
It's Christmas and Harry's back to ask Severus the same question he does every year.
Same author as Rapture:
The Night Watch
"Whose side would you have been on if you had been there - the night that I was taken? What would you have done?"
He can nearly hear the whirring of Snape's mind, wheels and levers clicking and sliding into place, as the man processes this question. He suddenly wants to see Snape's face, but is too self-conscious to sit up. He lies awake, waiting for an answer.
"I would have died for you."
Harry closes his eyes, and tries to ignore the ache inside his chest, and the sudden, unexpected lurching of his tired heart".
Note: I found these fics using Claire Jordan’s Recs, this post on r/snarrry, and this post by @hp-fanfic-archive
Answer by Claire Jordan, Editor, Harry Potter Lexicon (just started)
