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I want more paternal Snape for Draco without the pedophelia please 🩷

being good friends with Lucius Malfoy will do that to you.

having Severus as you dad's good friend will do that to you. because he, basically, becomes your good friend, too.

tell me Severus didn't help Draco with potions in between semesters and on his free time. because i think he totally did. Draco has heart eyes exactly because he knows Severus outside of the school grounds. before school even started, too.

TW: Draco x Snape, darkship, minor/adult

— New comfort ship not going to lie

Song : Cherry Waves - Deftones

thank you very much for the asks, anons! it's no longer draco's birthday, but i think having to wait for things is probably good for him...

back in the mists of time, i answered an ask about snaco and said that i didn't back it because i thought that the relationship between snape and draco had too much of a paternal flavour for me to enjoy them doing the nasty.

well, that version of me was a clown and a fool who didn't know what she was talking about.

because i am now of the opinion that snaco slaps - and the complex power dynamic between the two is the reason why.

after all, you have in snaco a mirror of something you have in snarry - snape working tirelessly to protect draco [because, as canon heavily implies, of his profound affection for narcissa], but, since his true motivation in undertaking this work is secret, with snape positioned not as someone controlling draco, but as someone serving him.

[it's really striking - for example - that, in the argument harry overhears at slughorn's party, snape spends the entire thing making offerings to draco. which draco then rejects.]

and you also have - and this is something which i always thinks bangs in snarry - the way that snape's inclination to position himself as a supplicant in relation to his partner is challenged - and either turned into something more equal or allowed to become more entrenched - by the way draco would come to understand the power dynamic between them after the war [or, indeed, after snape covered for him with voldemort, and he was spared any punishment for failing to kill dumbledore].

perhaps you have draco trying to grasp some control post-war, after everything he believes about the proper order of the world has been upended, by punishing snape - accusing him of only having helped him because he was a spy, or accusing him of not really caring about lucius or narcissa - and snape - unmoored in a world he never expected to live to see - retreating into the comfort of shame and grief by submitting to him.

or perhaps you have draco wanting snape to stop seeing him as someone he has to serve and look after, and - accordingly - gradually leading him towards seeing them as partners.

after all, they do have a fair amount in common. harry might try to claim otherwise, but draco is canonically good at potions - and he and snape have similar senses of humour, similar impulses towards childishness and pettiness [draco being a better occlumens than harry is because his stubbornness is much less self-righteous than harry's, rather than because he's more controlled or mature], and similar journeys of disillusionment with the blood- and magic-supremacist views they once wholeheartedly believed in. while i think there are certain points of tension which they'd need to find a way round - above all, their clearly divergent views of draco's wealth - i think they could get there...

A list of Valentine's fics for various ships! Snarry has their own list here.

Reclamation

by Arsenic. Draco/Severus. Rated: E. Words: 1,442.

Challenge: Draco/Snape, corsets, must include music.

A Spoonful of Snowflakes

by Belladonna_Lee. James Sirius/Scorpius. Rated: T. Words: 200.

Catching snatches of music and other people's conversations in the gelateria, James becomes aware of the silence between him and Scorpius.

Valentine's Tryst

by bellatrix_love. Regulus/Severus. Rated: M. Words: 200.

Severus learns how much Regulus loves him.

Valentine Sweet

by cruisedirector. Draco/Severus. Rated: T. Words: 200.

It's almost too good to be true.

Welcome to the Family

by danpuff. Ron/Lucius. Hermione/Narcissa. Draco/Sirius. Harry/Severus. Rated: M. Words: 4,615. Humor. Caught in the act.

Valentine’s Day goes from bad to worse when Draco discovers his parents’ secret relationships.

Slytherins Don't Do Valentine's Day

by fangqueen (@fangqueen). Blaise/Draco/Theodore. Rated: E. Words: 504.

At least, that was Draco Malfoy’s opinion. His...boyfriends of the past few months were of an entirely different one, it seemed. Which is why, when the dreaded day of hearts, disgustingly cute courtship, and…pink came along, the young man found himself standing just inside the Room of Requirement, jaw agape, the two fools themselves smirking like they’d done something especially clever.

A Slytherin Valentine's Day Love Story

by floweringjudas. Lucius/Severus. Rated: E. Words: 10,133.

"All right, if you're so certain, a wager." Lucius sat up a bit, giving Mulciber a smirk. "Terms?" "Fuck Severus Snape by St. Valentine's Day, and I'll give you my broom. Fail, and I take your place accompanying Narcissa Black to Hogsmeade for the rest of the year."

Roses May be Red, but Violets Are Actually Purple

by GMTH. Lucius/Severus. Rated: E. Words: 3,362. Infidelity. Rough sex. Crossdressing. Corsetry.

This was definitely not what Severus had been expecting when Lucius requested his help finding the perfect Valentine's Day gift for Narcissa.

Mating Habits

by Mad_Maudlin. Harry/Ron. Rated: M. Words: 1,162.

Ron and Harry are mates.

How to Ask the Question

by madeofbees. Draco/Severus. Rated: E. Words: 22,790.

Draco has wanted Severus since he can remember. On Valentine's Day of his eighth year, he finally works up the courage to ask for what he wants. Or does he?

Mutual Pain, Mutual Pleasure

by _Melodic_. James Sirius/Teddy. Draco/James Sirius. Draco/Teddy. Rated: E. Words: 981. Threesome. Infidelity. POV Alternating. Morally Ambiguous Character. Angst & Smut.

James and Teddy both need something they can't get from the other. Draco is only too glad to step in and assist.

J'adore

by MysticKitten42 (@mystickitten42). Albus Severus/Draco. Rated: T. Words: 200.

A love declaration in gemstones. ~Or~ The one where Draco has difficulty resisting his attractive potions assistant.

You're the Only One for Me

by MysticKitten42 (@mystickitten42). Draco/Harry. Rated: M. Words: 1,789. MCD. Unhappy ending. Heartbreak. Grief/mourning. Regret.

After all these years, Draco's still the one.

it's a day for grand gestures

by tryslora. Harry/Neville. Rated: G. Words: 836.

Harry almost walks into a wall of flowers on his way into the florist.

Sweethearts

by wynnebat (@wynnefic). Rated: T. Words: 791.

Or is this Draco?