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Recs for Snape‑centric fics I’ve enjoyed. You can send me fics — I read what catches my interest. Completed works only. All ships are welcome.

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The Secret Stars by noxlumos Pairing: Sirius Black/Severus Snape Rating: M Word Count: 78k Completed

Eager to strike back at James Potter after years of humiliation at Hogwarts, Severus agrees to steal Sleekeazy’s signature formula for Lucius Malfoy—only to learn he’s soulbonded to Potter’s best friend, Sirius Black.

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Triquetra by Contrarian_hedgehog Pairing: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin/Severus Snape Rating: Explicit Word Count: 50k Completed

With the war fast approaching, Snape is forced to rely on Lupin and Black in order to secure his place in Voldemort's circle. Can they get past two decades of hostility? After a month of cohabiting, being around each other gets easier yet so much more difficult.

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Draco Malfoy & the Starburst Effect by Tessa Crowley Pairing: Draco Malfoy & Severus Snape Rating: G Word Count: 72k Completed

A very long time ago, someone who was meant to die lived—and someone else, who was meant to live, died.

Nearly a century later, Draco Malfoy—an orphan growing up with his horrible aunt and uncle in France—has a very unusual eleventh birthday. He learns the truth about his parents, about the strange star-shaped burn on his chest, and about an entire world deliberately hidden from him.

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Regretfully Yours by Maria_de_Salinas

Pairing: Petunia Evans Dursley/Severus Snape Rating: E Word Count: 38.9k Completed

1981 was not Petunia's year. The day before New Year's Eve, determined to make a fresh start of it, she straps Harry and Dudley into the car and flees north--only to hit into the biggest snowstorm she's ever seen in her life.

Grief-stricken and dazed by his pivot from Death Eater to teacher, Severus Snape spends his holiday far from everyone, wandering aimlessly through the snow.

The last thing either of them wanted was their paths to collide, but when Petunia gets stuck in the snow, they'll get stuck with each other.

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Fair is Fair by maraudersaffair Pairings: Peter Pettigrew/Severus Snape Rating: E Word Count: 1.3k Completed Peter’s favourite thing to do was to anger Severus Snape.

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In The Absence Of Want by WFanfics Pairing: Harry Potter & Severus Snape Rating: G Word Count: 26k Completed

When Albus Dumbledore arranges for Harry Potter to spend the summer with Severus Snape, neither of them expects it to last beyond obligation. But between growing trust, an attack that changes everything, and a house that slowly becomes a home, Severus begins to realize the arrangement was never temporary at all.

Or

5 times Severus denied Harry was his son, and 1 time he didn’t.

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Novennial by Aclandiae Pairing: Lily Evans Potter/Severus Snape Rating: E Word Count: 25k Completed

The day of the Defense OWLs is uneventful. No public humiliation, no slurs shouted for everyone to hear, no friendship-ending disasters. Just two people who've been slowly losing each other for years, continuing to drift apart.

Until suddenly, they don't.

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Perfect Storm by BlackVelvet42 Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape Rating: E Word Count: 59k Completed

In all likelihood, the boy was no one. Perhaps someone Severus had met in passing over the years; his memory was excellent, after all. At worst, a former student, someone life hadn’t treated so kindly after graduation. That did happen, too. And really, he ought to be on his way.

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Have Your Cake and Eat It by Cunegonde Pairing: Remus Lupin/Severus Snape Rating: Teen and Up Word Count: 120k Completed

Lying in hospital after the Battle of Hogwarts, Remus Lupin has a lovely lucid dream that he's gone back to his school days at Hogwarts. Only the day passes, then another, and another, and soon he must face the terrifying possibility that it isn't a dream — that he has irreparably altered the events of the past.

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Unseen, Unnoticed, Unbothered by Dino_Cattivo Pairing: Sirius Black/Severus Snape Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Word Count: 75k Completed

Survival at Hogwarts has always meant enduring hexes and humiliation, but Severus could handle it. At least until a single failing grade shatters his hopes of ever escaping to a better life. For the first time, he wonders… would life be easier if he wasn't Severus Snape? Lucky for him, he is a potion genius and relief is only a few experiments away.

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Ninety‑Three by orphan_account Pairing: James Potter/Severus Snape Rating: Mature Word Count: 37k Completed

James promises Severus that if Severus has sex with him 93 times, he will break up with Lily and advocate that she date Severus.

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Roommate From Hell by Aconite_and_Dittany Pairing: Sirius Black/Severus Snape Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Word Count: 4.8k Completed

Sirius Black was a menace and the worst roommate imaginable. He was an arrogant, insufferable jock and Severus wanted to strangle him.

Or he did… somehow Severus was wearing the idiot’s jersey and Black was spewing ridiculous nonsense that made Severus’ cheeks burn and his heart flutter.

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The Guardian by Anifan1 Pairing: Harry Potter & Severus Snape Rating: T Word Count: 48k Completed After the death of the Dursleys before Harry’s eighth birthday, it’s suddenly up to Severus Snape to take care of him. Temporarily, of course. Until a better guardian can be found. Severitis (non-biological). NO corporal punishment. AU, but follows canon knowledge of the Dursleys.

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The Walled-Up Wife by Mr_Customs_Man Pairings: Lily Evans/Severus Snape, James Potter/Severus Snape, James Potter/Lily Evans, Mary Macdonald/Lily Evans, Mulciber Jr./Severus Snape, Regulus Black/Severus Snape Rating: E Word Count: 32k Completed

Lily Evans wanted nothing more to do with Severus Snape. She was never going to speak with him again for as long as she lived. And she had every intention of following through with that promise, until she saw Mulciber hit her ex-best friend across the face. In a fit of rage, she challenges him to a duel, only to find herself drawn into a world of dark rituals and sacrificial magic. There is more at stake than just her Gryffindor pride. Lily must win the duel, because if she doesn't then Severus and his magic will be bound to Mulciber forever.

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Inconveniently Yours by Charlie_The_Duck00 Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape Rating: E Word Count: 29k Completed

Harry thinks his soulmate is going to be his on-and-off girlfriend of three years. Spoiler Alert: It's not.

Harry Potter has survived war, Dark Lords, and the absolute nightmare that is the British press. A soulmate bond with Severus Snape might actually be worse.

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strawberries and cream by Anonymous Pairing: Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy/Severus Snape Rating: E Word Count: 1.9k Completed

In which Severus is far too thin, and pampering is an art Lucius and Narcissa have perfected.