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What a Sanctuary (for the sceleratus) by Ieatbreads
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Jun 2026
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As their second summer together begins with Professor and student settling into their new residence in a small Scottish hamlet both magical and muggle, Harry and Severus struggle with their own internal dilemmas.
Harry's nightmares of Cedric have now been replaced by dreams of his late Godfather and the veiled archway, intensifying his survivor's guilt and grief. Severus wants nothing more than to offer what help and comfort he can, but he finds himself hesitant to do so while Harry is unknowing of his own involvement in the prophecy that started everything.The weeks bleed away. Confessions are made, secrets are unearthed, and the line in the sand between mere formalities and something almost familial blurs in the tide that is the new school semester, which is somehow filled with more threats than ever before as someone seems to be trying, not to break into the school, but to steal Harry out of it...
Sceleratus [latin]: sinful, guilty, wicked
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- Part 4 of What a Series!
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20 Jan 2026
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What a Step Back (after two steps forwards) by Ieatbreads
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Dec 2025
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Overwhelmed by guilt and nightmares surrounding Cedric's death even months after the third task is over, Harry's mental and physical state are falling to pieces, but this time, for a reason unclear to him, Snape isn't there to pick them up.
After orders from Dumbledore warning him to stay emotionally distant from Potter, the Potions master can only help in the subtlest ways as the boy he worries so much about begins to crumble. His offer to teach Potter Occlumency ends in a fight that leaves them both hurt and angry, but a certain snake-perspective vision and Umbridge's unique punishments push them back together.
Recognizing that neither wants to lose the other, Harry and Snape both strive to repair their trust.
After all, things must get worse before they can get better.Series
- Part 3 of What a Series!
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28 Dec 2025
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As the new school semester starts at Hogwarts, Harry and Snape manage to keep their strange new trust in each other hidden from the rest of the world, but when Harry's name comes out of the Goblet of Fire, he finds that he needs the Potion master more than is comfortable for the both of them.
Severus was determined to help Potter survive the Triwizard Tournament, but the boy is looking for more support than he can give without his guilty conscience bearing down on him.The two must work out their complicated relationship, which has become closer than either had ever anticipated, while getting past dragons, suspicious ex-aurors, formal dancing, and school drama.
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- Part 2 of What a Series!
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- 15/15
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24 Dec 2025
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Harry is having an excellent fourteenth birthday at the Burrow, at least until Dumbledore arrives with Snape in tow. Dumbledore informs him that he must be tutored by the Potions Master in both Defence and Potions for the rest of the summer, to Harry's great dismay, and so he is dragged along to Spinner's end.
Snape didn't anticipate spending his summer housing and tutoring the son of his late enemy, and he definitely didn't expect that the boy was really nothing like how he had always assumed, but as the days progress, both wizards will learn more about the other, either from a round of questioning...or from behind the other's back.
The first fic in a series of 500k+ words of slowburn severitus :}
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- Part 1 of What a Series!
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- 62,040
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- 10/10
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22 Dec 2025
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In a little house beside a river, two people share a pot of coffee as the sun slowly rises. One of them has seen what it would mean to lose everything. The other has felt the joy of getting it all back. Both are learning what it means to be human.
The final installment in this five-part series.
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- Part 5 of It Takes A Village
Bookmarked by Afianarch
09 Nov 2025