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A short fanfiction in current progress
Tags: Path to Victory, Overpowered, OP!Snape, Humour, AU!Snape, Marauders, Prisoner of Azkaban, Revenge
Summary: The year of 1993 is a bad year for Severus Snape. With Potter in harm's way, the convicted murderer Black escaped, the dangerous Lupin back in Hogwarts and Dumbledore purposefully oblivious to his concerns, Severus starts to crack under the pressure early on. It is such a special year that the desperate Potions Master is given by Fate a superpower like no others: the Path to Victory.
Thanks to a certain magical symbiote, he gains the power to achieve anything the Universe allows, as long as he asks the right question. But as everyone knows, Severus Snape is not a nice man. Plagued by grudges, wounds and regrets, how can this man handle such power without developing a maddening God Complex?
Warning: lots of character bashing, slightly dark!Snape, Path to Victory different than Contessa’s
I also discuss external things about the fandom: how function the Afterlife and souls in HP, how easy it can be to turn Animagus following Rowling’s instructions on another book, Dementors/Boggarts and how not to confuse them, how Voldemort enrolled/manipulated/radicalized Snape, a take on Snape’s unhealthy state of mind, disillusionment...
Hope you will enjoy reading it!