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As Severus Snape lay dying in the Shrieking Shack, his mind created an oddly detailed and realistic hallucination of his life as a child.
Only, it didn't seem to be ending, did it?
Severus was either in a coma and dying, already dead and trapped in some purgatory, completely and utterly insane, or living in the body of his past self.
Until he could figure out which, he might as well play along and attempt to keep the timeline from shattering into a thousand pieces.
If only it were that easy...
What day had he first met Lily, last time around? Could he really afford to avoid doing some odd jobs around town to keep himself fed?
And, perhaps most suspiciously, why did James Potter keep looking at him like that?!
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18 Mar 2026
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Within These Walls (First String) by Cross_your_mind_just_alittle
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Mar 2026
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Hermione Granger knew about time-travel and time-turners as a third year. When everything goes wrong at the Battle of Hogwarts, and nearly everyone she loves dies, Hermione discovers that not only is time-travel possible within her world but across worlds as well.
Suddenly thrown back to 1978 and into a world that is no longer her own, Hermione has a chance to rewrite history, because while terrible things happen to Witches and Wizards who mess with time, she doesn't think that applies to a Universe where she never existed in the first place.
Never one to back down from a fight, Hermione is going to make this new world a better place. She's going to take down Voldemort, avoid an ever Manipulative Dumbledore, and she's going to do so alongside an equally war-battered George Weasley and Draco Malfoy, and maybe with the help of a young Severus Snape.
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17 Mar 2026
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Severus Snape finds himself alive when he shouldn't be, and much to his dismay back inside his teenage self. No idea how he had managed the impossible feat he is determined to turn the tide of war before Voldemort ever has the chance to try and target Lily. What he does not expect is that Remus Lupin is in the same boat as him.
(cross posted on FF . net)
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10 Mar 2026
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mon bateau s'en va vers vous by elke (weidli)
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
05 Sep 2024
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On November 12th, 1930, a drunk mistakes the accelerator for the brake and hits a woman—a local torch singer, formerly employed at the Azalea, currently residing in Algiers—crossing the street. She's dead an hour later.
Or: Lestat and Louis make attempts at drinking, fighting, fucking, talking, and doing it kinder. And then there's Claudia.
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- Part 1 of mon bateau s'en va vers vous
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13 Jan 2026
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Never take advice from someone who's falling apart by quati_quati
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Jun 2025
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Severus is losing it.
He was a child. He was late for Charms.
He was a dead man. He had just died.- Language:
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11 Jan 2026
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James doesn’t understand what’s happening.
After the incident by the Black Lake, his red-haired angel had finally managed to break free from that sullen, greasy snake. He ought to have been relieved—yet he can’t stop paying attention to one thing:
That Slytherin… has changed.
The boy who always hunched over, who kept himself tucked into shadows as if he didn’t quite belong—now walks with a straight back, his former unease replaced by a sharp, steady focus. He ignores every gaze on him, striding down the corridors with quick, decisive steps, the hem of his robes sweeping behind him in dark, wave-like ripples.
Once, James even caught Snape standing by a window, watching a group of younger students roughhousing in the hall with a cold, assessing stare—as if he might deduct points any second, as if he had the authority to do that.
James can’t make sense of it.
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31 Dec 2025
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Severus Snape is not an optimist even on his best days. Today is not a good day.
Or also; Instead of dying peacefully and being tossed into a shoddy grave where future students come to vandalize, Severus finds himself flung through time to the beginning of his sixth year, and must deal with the consequences.
If it must be done, it must be done properly. Regretfully, he seems to be the best candidate.
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08 Nov 2025
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he takes the pills during the MVA.
doesn't throw them up. doesn't tell anyone.
just swallows it down like it's nothing - like he hasn't done this before.(he has. he knows exactly how this ends. but that doesn't stop him.)
starts at 7x05 with a major canon divergence from 7x09.
slow collapse. quiet relapse.
painkillers, guilt, and the kind of unraveling you can hide under your scrubs.Bookmarked by Meinstead
25 Oct 2025
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Severus Snape was ready to embrace death, bleeding out on the cold floor of the Shrieking Shack after Nagini's deadly attack. He had made peace with his end—relief, even, at the thought of escaping a life of torment and regret.
So why, in the ever-twisted fabric of fate, did he wake up in his fifteen-year-old body, back in his fifth year at Hogwarts, surrounded by ghosts of the past he thought he'd escaped forever?
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24 Oct 2025
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How one choice changed history's course, or the life of Severus Snape from Hogwarts to adulthood if characters were less caricatural, and Voldemort and the Death Eaters were more than bogeymen.
This is an AU, events before and after may differ from the books.
AN-2024/08/01: I have written a third story in this universe called Marvolo's Choice which is a short alternate ending to Severus' Choice.Series
- Part 1 of A Wizard's Choice
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15 Oct 2025
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While attacked in a Shrieking Shack, Severus Snape receives visions of what his life will become.
Realising in horror what it all leads to, he changes his course. Time to make his own way, build his money and develop his potions while keeping himself firmly out of the Dark Lord's path.
In between all that, James Potter slips in with a business plan and everything changes forever.
PAIRING: James Potter/Severus Snape Endgame, the rest of the pairings are temporary
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10 Oct 2025
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Severus Snape was 18 years old.
Today was November 8th, 1977.
And on May 28th, 1978, he was going to kill himself.
For the sixth months leading up to it? Severus was going to be happy. Even if he had to make it with his own hands.
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30 Sep 2025
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The Pauper becomes the Prince; the Prince becomes the Master.
or: Severus is done with wizards for good. Following the death of his father shortly after his graduation, he packs his bags and sets off for London, striving to become something his father (along with every wizard from his past) would have hated. Through a series of rather unexpected events (a few chance encounters and several regrettable fashion choices), he becomes a muggle rockstar. He is the Punk Prince, lead of a rising post-punk rock band riding the new wave of the 80s. The band explodes into the British music scene, attracting fans, friends, and enemies- including those from his past.
After a Death Eater attack at one of his performances, Severus is dragged back into the world he tried so hard to leave behind. Soon Severus is caught between a prophecy, the world he's come to love, and one that refuses to forget him. He must make a choice: muggle or wizard, coward or hero, prince or master.- Language:
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22 Sep 2025
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If Only Someone Knew What That Snape Boy Thought by Hey123pizza
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Mar 2026
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Abandoned by his mother, Eileen, after the death of his father, Tobias, sixteen-year-old Severus Snape is trying to survive his summer in a dingy house that he could be evicted from any day now. But luck would run out, and an accidental bout of magic alerts the ministry. And as the cold hand of authority closed around him, Severus Snape could only wonder what awaited him on the other side of this nightmare, and whether he would ever find his way back to the light. But when the Potters sweep in to give him a roof over his head, he believes he's lost the light altogether.
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- Part 1 of That Snape Boy
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21 Sep 2025
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Due to one of Dumbledore's great ideas, Severus finds himself stuck at Azkaban on career day with his fellow sixth-year Slytherins and Gryffindors. However, what was meant to be a routine field trip takes a turn for the worse when an escape plan by a group of criminals goes awry, leaving the Hogwarts students trapped in the prison as tensions rise and secrets unravel.
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17 Sep 2025
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Severus's life changes forever after Sirius Black tricks him into going into the shrieking shack. He no longer attends Hogwarts, he's the heir to a prestigious magical family, and he makes an unlikely friend.
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03 Sep 2025
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Severus had been ready to die, he hadn't expected to find himself back to a time when he was still to commit his greatest sins. He had not expected Lily to talk to him again.
After two decades spent fighting in a war, it's not immediately apparent to him that somewhere along the way he must've forgotten how to live. With a looming war on the horizon, he doesn't have much of a choice if he wants to protect her.
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27 Aug 2025
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Severus gets injured in the shrieking shack (his fifth year). While unconscious he witnesses some scenes from his future and realizes becoming a death eater wouldn’t bring him power and glory but pain and servitude. He spends the rest of his schooling trying to shape a different future for himself.
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10 Aug 2025
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The summer after Harry's fourth year has become the worst of his life. The haunting memories of Cedric's death and Voldemort's revival were terrible enough on their own, but then came the strange visions of Death Eaters, the worsening pain in his scar, and the uncontrollable emotions that don't feel like his own. After fleeing Privet Drive, he finds himself stuck in an isolated cottage with his most hated professor: Severus Snape.
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Snape mentors Harry, no slash.
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26 Jul 2025
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When Harry blows up Aunt Marge during the summer, Dumbledore is much quicker to react. Snape finds him far before the Minister does, but his plan of dropping him off with a lecture and half a dozen additional summer assignments doesn't work out.
In which Harry spends the summer at Spinner's End.
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25 Jul 2025