(Shameless self-promo, because comments and kudos fuel me)
Summary:
Harry mulls it over. "You're saying... people who we've seen dying..."
She nods. "They stay dead."
"But then, if we only presume they have died..." he continues.
"Harry, no," says Hermione adamantly. He frowns.
"What no?" he replies defensively. "You don't even know what I'm thinking of.”
"But I know you well enough to know it's probably something very brave, very risky, and very stupid," she answers without missing a beat.
or
Twenty-year-old Harry Potter, a newly appointed Auror and young father, is haunted by an idee fixe to make things right by Severus Snape. But clearing Snape’s name is not enough — Harry decides to travel back in time to save him. As history unravels itself, Harry must fight against the laws of physics to set things in order.
Vibes: time travel, science, academia, war, post-war
After Harry’s ill-fated Occlumency lesson, he visits Snape in a fit of guilt—with only minor ulterior motives. Will Snape allow him to cross the line? And can they both find a moment of peace amidst the war?
(chan 15, fast. but otherwise IMPECCABLE characterisation. Just perfect imo.)
"Potter, whatever animosity there is between us exists solely on your own merit at this point."
Summer is coming to an end, and autumn will be here soon. Seasons change, years pass us by, but Snarry is here to stay. The following brought us some joy and hopefully it'll bring you guys some joy, too.
Art
🎨 @ofnightsndsongs - Spicy Polaroids
Rated E
🎨 @flymetosnarryland - Muggle London
Rated E
🎨 @ac1d6urn - The Bravest Man
Rated T
🎨 @danipantsu - Tailormade
Rated G
Podfic
🎙️Things We Wish For by @avioleta (AO3)
Podfic by JocundaSykes
Rated E, 2 hours
Harry blinks. Blinks again. It doesn’t make sense. It’s simply not possible. But yet… “Snape?” It’s not the Snape Harry knows or remembers. Not the Snape Harry grieved. But he would know that face, that profile, those eyes anywhere. “What happened?” he manages. “How are you here?”
🎙️ World Enough, and Time by @likelightinglass (AO3) - a Podfic
Podfic by Cailynwrites
Rated T, 40 minutes
Soulmate clocks start ticking when you first lock eyes, and count down until your time with them is over. Harry’s starts ticking on September 1st, 1991. He has only six years, eight months, and one day.
Fic + Art
🌸 The Curse of Anteros - @danpuff-ao3 (AO3) / @mrviran (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 53k
When Harry is cursed, he seeks out Severus Snape. They have a long history behind them, after all, and they've always had so much between them. Who else would he go to?
🌸 A Step into the Light - @givereadersahug (AO3) / @gullibert (AO3) / @dandelionstars (AO3)
Rated NR, Word Count 10k
Severus Snape is now a free man. He fills his time travelling the world, collecting potion ingredients, and helping Luna with her business. The thing is, Severus has a gift. No, not potions or the Dark arts. He can see mushi, creatures that show up from time to time. Severus knows how to help them and the humans that come into contact with them. This time, their travels take them to an island off the coast of Japan, to a man sitting on a log, staring out into the ocean and waiting for his wife to return home.
Inspired by the anime Mushishi. A retelling of Season 1, Episode 8.
For the Snape Bang 2022.
🌸 The Ugliest Veela - Octroman
Rated E, Word Count 60k
Snape is part-veela. It is interfering with his dating life.
Post-war, Severus Snape finds himself in a life without purpose. In a desperate bid for the family he always wanted, he subjugates himself to a matchmaking service in hopes to find an acceptable partner. However, it is mandatory to disclose veela status in order to use the premiere matchmaker of the old family houses.
Wrinkled, sallow, oily, big-nosed, and bony, Severus shows up for a string of horrific dates where potential partners expect him to be both gorgeous and enchanting. “I thought veelas were supposed to be beautiful!” Cue the jokes.
How much humiliation can Severus stand?
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Illustrated chapter titles and crafted with love.
Fic
📚 A Series of Events - @babygray (AO3)
Rated M, Word Count 67k
In January, the impossible occurred. It took Severus until April to realize just what that was, and to believe.
Snarry Mpreg, takes place during Half-Blood Prince.
📚 A Trick of the Mind - @vulnerasanenturmyprince (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 40k
Ever since the horcrux in his head is gone, Legilimency comes easy to Harry. It’s nearly laughable how easy it is, considering how much he used to struggle with it back in his fifth year. But he reckons half of that had been Snape’s fault anyway. Who on earth would enjoy the nasty git invading their mind?
But as life as Harry has known it changes, Harry’s opinion on the matter changes with it ― rather drastically so if he’s being perfectly honest.
📚 Blowing Smoke - DawnOfTomorrow
Rated E, Word Count 231k
Harry doesn't care about Snape beyond having to sit detentions with the man despite being of age. He doesn't. He asks him out for a drink just to get out of detention. So what if it's... nice? So what if they become friends? So what if Snape *is* lonely?
It's not Harry's problem - at least not until he realises he's accidentally befriended the man, and just how much he cares for Snape.
Well, shit.
📚 Close Encounters - @bleedcolor (AO3) & @likelightinglass (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 35k
Years after the war, Harry Potter and Severus Snape meet and fall in lust, then love.
Too bad they don’t know who they’ve fallen for.
📚 Curatio - @serenaew (AO3)
Rated T, Word Count 12k
curatio, onis, f
noun
1. healing/curing
2. object of care
3. treatment, surgical operation, medical care
At the foot of the Whomping Willow, there lay an injured kingfisher.
Now with moodboard (chapter 2)!
📚 Date In A Dash - @silvereye5 (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 16k
Harry and Severus accidentally attend the same speed dating event.
After the war, Harry Potter and Severus Snape, er, fuck sometimes. You know, it just happens; it's one of these things. They're not in a relationship, right? They're not like that.
...Until they are, but only one of them can see it.
📚 Gold Like Ichor, Gold Like Magic - @dandelionstars (AO3)
Rated M, Word Count 26k
Seven years after Harry James Potter was left unceremoniously on the doorstep to Number Four, Privet Drive, Vernon Dursley was offered a promotion and the whole family had to move to Cokeworth, England. While Dudley is off terrorizing the local children, Harry spends his days in the school library and finds a fast friend in Ms. Eileen Prince.
From Cokeworth to Hogwarts and back again, this is a story about the friendship, the magic, and the love that can be found in the unlikeliest of places, if only one bothers to look.
📚 Hawthorn Branches in Spring - zalil
Rated T, Word Count 37.5k
Harry returns to Hogwarts to finish school properly and sit for his NEWTs. He doesn't expect Snape to be back teaching, nor their old animosity to resurface. When it is pointed out to him that he is responsible for it, he sets out to change their relationship for the better. The results have more of an impact on him than he expected.
📚 Little Monkeys - Lilian
Rated T, Word Count 15.7k
"There might be a chance that maybe, perhaps, Severus went too far this whole ‘exile far away from the Wizarding World’ thing. Because however he tries to frame it, it comes down to this: after nine years of being completely alone, the first time he stays with another person, he’s plotting to steal said person’s children."
📚 Loose Ends - @arrisha-ao3 (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 9.8k
I love you, Severus wants to say. But the timing is never right.
📚 Lovers Reunited - Now with a special buff! - @hereiamwithmyninjaclan (AO3)
Rated T, Word Count 10k
MMORPGs are a fun way to pass the time and spend time with your friends- and hey, Harry might just find true love along the way.
Beta'd by the lovely @silverdrip
📚 Not Giving In - @hippocrates460 (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 38.7k
Harry comes back from his holiday to a stack of memos on his desk that all say the same thing: "Severus Snape adopted Teddy Lupin."
Snape. No one has seen him since the war trials ended, no one knows where he lives, no one knows why he took Teddy. And what happened to Andromeda? Harry is determined to be a good godfather and sort it all out. Even if it means dealing with Snape.
Title from Better Son/Daughter, because Nanette.
📚 Professional Strippers - @coconutice22 (AO3)
Rated T, Word Count 6k
At Uncle Vernon’s funeral, Aunt Petunia asks Harry for a favour.
📚 Snowed in with Severus - @maraudersaffair (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 32.5k
In eighth year, Harry decides to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas. He sets out to spend the time with Professor Snape, but after a magical accident, they find themselves stranded alone in a snowy cabin with no way out and only one bed.
📚 Sudden Light - @liladiurne (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 48k
Seven years after the war, in the dead of winter, Severus Snape meets a beautiful stranger on a train. Inevitably, he falls in love.
Inspired by D.G. Rossetti and Paul Celan and based on the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
📚 The Beating of This Fragile Heart - @writcraft (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 33k
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.
📚 the Boy Who Lubed - @swoontodeath (AO3)
Rated M, Word Count 7k
Desperate to pass his N.E.W.T. in Potions, Harry Potter joins a secretive Discord server run by a Potioneering expert known only as the Half-Blood Prince.
What will happen when Severus Snape, full-time Potions Professor and part-time Discord mod, realises that the newest addition to his server is none other than his least favourite student?
📚 The Half-Blood and the Prince - @tax-onomic (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 6.5k
“It’s just a book, Harry.”
“Okay. Thanks.”
“But… you’ve got a crush on a book, mate. That’s a bit much. You need a girlfriend.” She tapped the name on the first page thoughtfully. “Or perhaps a boyfriend?”
📚 The Measure of a Man - @ac1d6urn (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 50k
Several years after defeating Voldemort, Junior Auror Harry Potter discovers himself and, at the risk of losing his childhood love, follows the truth. Through it all, Snape is an unexpected solace. Will he become more?
📚 The Want of You - @fleetingdesires (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 7.3k
On his night off, Severus unexpectedly realises that Harry has grown into quite an attractive man.
He's just not going to think too hard about it. No, he's not going to think about him at all. It's fine. He's fine. Everything is fine.
📚 Thirteen and a half inches - @loneamaryllis (AO3)
Rated E, Word Count 8.3k
The Marauder's Map shows a number above some people's head. Harrie investigates what it means.
📚 You Were Myth-Taken - @hokee101 (AO3)
Rated T, Word Count 23.8k
When vampire attacks hit Hogsmeade, Severus Snape is the prime suspect. With Harry and Albus not taking these accusations seriously and the students threatening to expose him at every turn, this term was going to be just fangtastic.
Fest - @hprecfest Theme - A fic that made you laugh
Snarry is complicated/messy/angsty. But also funny! Lots of Snarry fics are really funny deconstructions of some super popular tropes during the eras they got written. Today I got ten Snarry fics that made me laugh. Nobody asked me for a list but I made one anyway because Snarry!!!
D for Defender by Amand_r. Bat Snape forever <3
There's a man stalking the Wizarding world. Or a bat. Maybe a Man-Bat. Severus is probably having an affair, Harry's tired all the time, oh, and those drunks out in East Anglia are complaining about the green lights. Again.
The GL, Oder Der Giftige Lautsprecher, nicht wahr? by Rakina. Snape is a dick shaped plant. Literally.
This looked something like a round gourd, bulbous and flushed red. As Harry stared at it he realised the gourd's shape was alarmingly testicular, and the dusting of dark bristles over its surface did nothing to lessen the resemblance.
Better Homes and Dungeons by abstractconcept. Relationship problems because Snape and Harry of course are awful at communication.
“He’s bored with me,” Snape said despondently.
“Naturally,” Draco replied, draining his gin and tonic. “You don’t throttle him nearly enough.” He poured himself another glass. “Learn to keep your relationship more exciting. Break out the whips more often.”
Sheer Dumb Luck by rexluscus. Of course the best solution to win the war is screwing Snape. Literally. Also in other ways.
For once, Harry and Voldemort want the same thing, and they want it from Snape.
Fall into Charybdis by Nimori. Dirtybadhotwrong. Also funny!
"Of course." Harry waited until the floo whooshed, then rounded on Snape. "What are you playing at, you greasy prick?"
"I think you should call me Dad," Snape said, examining his nails.
Protosnape by suitesamba. Snarry authors also write non dirtybadhotwrong. Sorry if my recs gave you the wrong impression at any point. This one is wholesome and funny!
When WWW decides to add Headmaster Snape to their Wizarding Heroes Action Figure line, Harry begins a correspondence with Snape’s cousin to iron out the details of the prototype. Albert Prince Jr. has some very specific ideas, and Harry soon finds himself counting buttons and measuring cauldron bottoms in a bid to get the action figure to market, and to find out a bit more about this mysterious cousin.
Great Liars, Great Magicians by LoupGarou. BACK TO THE DIRTYBADHOTWRONG.
Dumbledore forces Harry to bond with Snape, who demands an heir, but when Harry announces his pregnancy, Snape doesn't believe him. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but the path to love is strewn with sex, lies, and manipulations.
A Tolerable End to an Unfortunate Situation by who_la_hoop. Of course Snape doesn't stay dead. Of course he is a problem.
When a dead, naked Snape enters the Great Hall – resurrected from the dead and out for Harry Potter's blood – it's the start of a whole new set of problems for the reluctant hero of the wizarding world.
Pink Slip by Cluegirl. Voldemort wins and ofc Harry is tortured. Really tortured :D
It is a long-held tradition for the children of one's enemies to be fostered in one's own household in order to enforce both sides' adherence to a treaty of peace. Harry doesn't find much comfort in the peace that has been bought with his freedom, but he's just a Fosterling in the house of Malfoy -- his only avenue of complaint lay with his Welfare Overseer, one Severus Snape.
Unexpected by Seeker. Snape gets deaged and everybody exploits that. Really exploits him :D
Thirty years as a Death Eater cum double agent and it came down to this.
Another May, another Snarry-a-Thon: the best time of year! (Also happens to be my birthday month, which makes it all the more special!) The Snarry community is so full of creative, generous, and supportive folks which always makes for a great event! Plus...more Snarry in the world! :D
This fest has been so meaningful to me over the years, and in celebration of another fest wrapped up, I've compiled a list of some of my favorites! This year had lots of goodies, so make sure to check out the rest of the collection, too!: Snarry-a-Thon 2023 (and the Master List on DW!)
Info: The Want of You, by Ephemeral (@fleetingdesires) Rated: E. Words: 7,337. 8th year. Student/teacher. Clubbing.
Summary:
On his night off, Severus unexpectedly realises that Harry has grown into quite an attractive man.
He's just not going to think too hard about it. No, he's not going to think about him at all. It's fine. He's fine. Everything is fine.
Read for: a fun & sexy time.
Quote:
"Merlin, Snape, why was that so hot?"
"Because you like breaking rules, and I broke them for the want of you."
Info: My Soul to Keep, by catharticEscapism (@catharticescapism.) Rated: E. Words: 4,027. Fat Harry. Internalized fat phobia. Fat acceptance. Body image & self-esteem. Past child abuse. Bottom!Snape. Fluff & smut.
Summary:
Harry is self-conscious about his weight gain after the war, and Severus reassures him that he’s loved just the way he is.
Read for: heartwarming & wholesome lovemaking.
Quote:
“I have great regard for your body. There is little I enjoy as much as having the opportunity to lay my hands on you.”
Info: Luck of the Draw, by Writcraft (@writcraft.) Rated: E. Words: 11,857. Getting together. Gay bar. Drag queens. Hiking. Minor injuries. Paddington the dog.
Summary:
Severus is enjoying the quiet life when his participation in a Ministry raffle forces him to go on a date with Harry Potter. During a weekend filled with drag queens, hiking, a twisted ankle and a dog named Paddington, Severus begins to wonder if the quiet life is really all it’s cracked up to be.
Read for: humor & fluff
Quote:
Severus has always loved deeply, jealously, greedily. Even if it is utter madness to think of love and Potter in the same breath, now the fire has started Severus knows it is futile to attempt to resist the kind of yearning he believed long since buried.
Info: Nocturne, by NecromanticNoir (@necromanticnoir.) Rated: E. Words: 54,090. Creature fic. Mystery & romance. Fairytale & horror. Angst & feels. Mutual pining. Dark magic.
Summary:
A Gothic Snarry version of ‘Beauty and the Beast’, inspired by the dark and sensual tale from the Czech film version, ‘Panna a Netvor’. I follow some of the plot, but then diverge and do my own thing. Got to make it even weirder, right? An eerie, erotic, brooding, bloody, batty, haunting fairytale.
Read for: erotic fairytales & dark romance.
Quote:
Severus knows he should not watch in secret - but there, through the window - oh, merciful heavens… The young man is bathing, in the large hammered-copper tub, his skin pale as moonbeams. All around the tub, candles burn; a hundred tiny flickering flames. Severus draws closer to the window, mesmerised. The bath water is white, sprinkled with flower petals and herbs of some kind, perhaps rosemary… The water seems to sparkle; the boy bathes in liquid moonshine.
Severus draws nearer still, and he beholds creamy skin - a pale shoulder, like marble. He is watching a rare creature; a unicorn, bathing in pure enchantment…
Info: old fires and phantom limbs, by LilaDiurne (@liladiurne.) Rated: E. Words: 14,514. 2nd person POV + present tense. Severus POV. Minor Harry/OMC. Exes to lovers. Heartache. Angst with a happy ending.
Summary:
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?
Read for: poetic prose & immense emotion.
Quote:
The passers-by come and go around you, shuffling about on the street this way and that, oblivious to your predicament, your dilemma. They did not feel the earthquake, they did not see your life crumbling. They do not know that your polished countenance is truly in shambles, held together with worn pieces of twine.
Info: Loose Ends, by Arrisha (@arrisha-ao3.) Rated: E. Words: 9,856. Heavy angst. Trauma. Mystery. Romance.
Summary:
I love you, Severus wants to say. But the timing is never right.
Read for: emotional devastation and/or you need to cry and the tears need help.
Quote:
He never doubted that the boy loved him.
But something deeper, darker, lurked underneath. Harry was broken.
The war had broken him, and Severus was all he had.
~~ BONUS: Shameless Shelf Rec ~~
Info: Devotion, by danpuff. Rated: E. Words: 25,843. Postwar. Background Hinny. Minor Severus/others. Cheating. Mental health issues. Angst. Unhealthy relationship. Ambiguous/open ending.
Summary:
Is there anything more undignified than needing someone so much?
Read for: all of my Snarry feels.
Quote:
The light of him transforms Spinner’s End.
In the way of dreams, every wall is familiar and strange. Every book, every shelf in its place. The sofa is still lumpy, the lights still dim. The wallpaper still peels at the edges.
The colors are changed. Just a shade off, he thinks. The air is crisp. Sweet and fresh as an apple. Cold and biting as a winter breeze.
Harry is the soft warmth of a flickering flame. The heavy heat of a raging inferno.
He is the blazing sun. The harsh light beneath which nothing can hide, and nothing survives.
Hello guys. I'm looking for a fanfiction called Worse Things by mia_ugly, it's Snupin. Mia_ugly is by far the best writer I've ever had the pleasure of meeting in fandom and I'm so in love with her works. I saw in my research that she has this Snupin, it's one of my favorite pairings. Does anyone know where to find it?
I didn’t know you were interested in snarry! I would like to make a humble recommendation as someone who dabbled in the pairing a long time ago and has recently revisited it with gusto and just so impressed by the talent that this pairing inspires (much like i feel about drarry). If you haven’t yet, perhaps consider reading The White Road by perverse_idyll. The prose are beautiful and the concept and pov are quite unique. Oh and there are so many others but this is me exercising restraint. Anyway, I thought I’d mention it in case you’re at all interested in some rando giving you an unsolicited rec that you have no reason to believe you’d actually like :)
No need to respond to this btw! I’ll just see myself back out into the ether…oh and thanks for being you and for sticking around a little longer in fandom!! 👋
Hello, and thank you so much for the rec! I’m definitely checking it out and btw any Snarry recs are very welcome, especially new or long fics. I’ve had a Snarry phase a long time ago (it was actually one of my very first ships, If You Are Prepared is forever imprinted on my soul) but without ao3 I lost track of my reads and nowadays I revisit this ship very occasionally, mainly reading @writcraft’s brilliant works - their new Harry/Draco/Snape A Life Worth Remembering is actually what made me fall into the Snarry pit again, thanks a lot Writ 😩
Once again thank you for your message, I really appreciate it! Happy to find more Snarry fans along the way and please no restraints around here, keep the recs coming! Tagging @danpuff-ao3 cause I know she’ll be excited seeing this!
Hi! Sorry for the delay! December is my worst month for fandom participation, and this year is harder than most. I usually prefer to add reviews, but right now I'll just have to settle for giving you a list. Most of these are fairly old, and many are a bit (or more) on the dark side, so approach the content accordingly. I didn't include Rapture by mia_ugly because I assume everybody's read it, but if you haven't, get thee to AO3.
In Between Days by atrata - Loooooooove this fic. This Snape is just - unf. Smart and cruel and autonomous and manipulative and so, so morally grey. A Stockholm syndrome fic. Underage.
A Bittersweet Potion series by alchemia and bugland - Massive but unfinished series with its own landing page (login and password are given). Multi-book amazing series about Harry acquiring shape-shifting powers and getting adopted by Snape while in cat form. That's the lighthearted part. It gets more complex, inventive, twisted, and dark as it goes on. Brilliant, funny, and disturbing by turns. Underage.
Sadness of Eros by loupgarou1750 - Harry's in denial about his sexuality and satisfying his need for cock at glory holes, where he encounters Snape (or rather, Snape's big dick). Features depressed, grungy Snape, cheating Harry, non-cutesy but hilarious Potter kids
King of Fat by rinsbane - A meditation on a slightly psychotic Snape who loves the Dark Arts and wants Harry. Locked to AO3.
Truth by thisveryinstant - Underage. Kind of an ur-Snarry fic for me. Snape is awful and pitiable at the same time, and his emotional twistedness is spot-on.
Yearning by geneticallydead - Snape has been buried for 10 years before Harry figures out he's still alive. Four LiveJournal posts; click through to the next installment.
Kestrel by lomonaaeren - Postwar. Harry needs Snape to create a prosthetic hand for his son, Snape needs someone to play guinea pig for a set of wings he's devised. Cold, grudgy, brilliant Snape and middle-aged Harry. Feels very true, plus wingfic!
Blood Sugar Sex Magic by RoozetteR - After the disastrous Occlumency lesson, a trace of Snape remains in Harry's mind
Standing on the Shoreline by tofsla - Post-war. Snape cross-dresses, but it's not a kinkfic. The contrast between queer generations; books and a different take on Snape's parents; lovely, compassionate Harry.
Reconciling Lily's Eyes by persepolis130 - Basically a deadpan comedy with serious moments. Harry decides he needs to bond (as in, connect) with Snape and follows him to America. They end up being mutually destructive roommates. Possibly the ugliest Snape ever committed to fanfic, but you end up rooting for him anyway.
Fall Into Charybdis by Nimori - Snarry Severitus (Snape turns out to be Harry's dad). Harry needs magical infusions from a close relative to counteract a deteriorating health condition. Turns out his compatible donor is Snape, who's sprung from Azkaban for that purpose.
If This Be Error by Nimori - Humor fic. Harry fumbles a fealty spell, which bonds him with a furious Snape.
Night Watch by mia ugly - Due to spell damage, Snape has been reduced to a washed-up hanger-on in Voldemort's dungeons. When the Death Eaters catch and imprison Harry, Snape's assigned to watch over him.
Morior Animus by Vain - Character death. The only way to defeat Voldemort is to destroy Harry's soul. The responsibility for this falls to Snape.
On a Clear Day by perfica -Time stops, except for Harry and Snape.
A Thing of Guile by perfica - Snape and Harry are separately imprisoned by the Death Eaters. Rape. Beautifully handled ambiguous ending.
Cost of Living by orphan account - As a consequence of the magic that defeated Voldemort, Snape and Harry stop aging while life around them goes on.
Life in Kind by orphan account - After Snape's death, Harry's determined to immortalize him in a portrait, and since no one else will agree, he decides to do it himself.
by the light of lesser stars by nothingbutfic - Dark, poetic meditation on what happens if Harry's losses and Snape's fascinated hatred succeed in pushing Harry over the edge
The Lighthouse Keeper (locked to AO3) - Very poetic, intense fic about Snape retreating into being a lighthouse keeper and Harry visiting him once a year.
a certain optimism by hippocrates460 - Snape and Harry communicate through the Half-Blood Prince's potions book. Neither knows at first who the other writer is.
Penance Is the Play by Maeglin Yedi - Harry tries to seduce Snape and get him sacked. Snape foils him and starts
training him for his showdown with Voldemort.
Miles to Go Before I Sleep by pluperfect sunrise - Beautifully written and gently romantic. Harry dances with Snape once a year at the Ministry Ball.
A Choriambic Progression by Mairead Triste and Aristide - A curse meant for Harry rebounds onto Snape, and as a consequence Harry is the only person Snape is safe to be around. Snape trains Harry while they're cooped up together, and Harry falls in love.
Look for me here by tarteaucitron - After Snape's death, Harry investigates his house and realizes that Snape may in fact have found the perfect hiding place. For certain values of perfect, that is.
The Finder series by gatewaygirl - A harsh, dark, appealing bastard!Snape and a Harry who knows his own mind. Includes a fairly mild D/s dynamic. Plus actual plot!
Lacrimosa in the Tesco Coffee Aisle by gingertart50 - Postwar infidelity fic. Fabulous guilt and UST.
Everybody's Fool by cluegirl - Bitter jilted Harry (Draco is his unsavory ex); sexually inexperienced Snape who allows Harry to teach him the gay ropes; ward magic and theory.
