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Harry defeats Voldemort in the graveyard and suddenly finds himself with a lot more time to focus on his studies. Severus sees that Harry is truly gifted at potions and once Harry leaves school, offers him an apprenticeship. But as the two work closely together for an extended period of time, Harry starts to notice things. Outdated customs, skirting around certain subjects and intimate knowledge of rituals and spells long forgotten to the general populace.
Severus has been hiding a large secret indeed. Read time approx. 4HR 25MIN
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20 Jun 2026
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Sometimes all that's needed for enormous differences is a small change, as small as the order of a few sentences in a heated fight. Lily Evans unconsciously makes one such change while arguing with her best friend, and the magnitude of consequences her actions cause hold the potential to reshape not only herself and the people around her, but their world's very future. A What-if AU that explores the questions of how much we know ourselves, how much we're truly influenced by our surroundings and how much we do so in turn, whether unexpected consequences arising from the choices we make are our responsibility, and ultimately, whether truth is truly an objective axiom of existence, or only what we make of it.
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- Part 1 of The Butterfly Wings and the Hurricane
- Part 1 of Bridging the Generations
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19 Jun 2026
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After escaping Dumbledore’s control and learning the truth of his heritage, the boy once known as Harry Potter disappears from Britain to reclaim his life and recover from his trauma.
A single letter drags Severus and Tom into the truth of what their son endured - and toward the fragile possibility of rebuilding a family they never believed they’d have again.
But war stops for nobody, especially one fed by the greater good.Meanwhile, Blaise Zabini may burn the world down, if the pretty green eyed boy asked him nicely.
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11 Jun 2026
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Reflecting on a life well-lived, Minerva McGonagall realises there are still a couple of loose ends to tie up before she goes. SS/HG
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10 Jun 2026
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Hermione meant to go back to the night Severus Snape died.
Before the blood and silence and all the truths learned too late.
Instead, the Time-Turner shatters.
Hermione falls nearly thirty years into the past and lands in Spinner’s End, where Severus Snape is not yet a spy, a professor, a murderer, a hero, or a dead man.
He is nine years old.
Thin, furious, brilliant, half-starved, and already expecting the world to hurt.
Stranded in 1969 with no way home, no legal identity, and no idea how much damage one misplaced kindness might do to history, Hermione finds herself with Aunt Vera’s spare room, a broken Time-Turner, and a child who does not know how to be helped.
There will be tea. Laundry. Drying charms. Butterbeer. Mistakes.
And slowly, Hermione begins to understand that saving Severus Snape may have very little to do with the night he died.
Author’s Note: This is eventual HG/SS, but the romance is a very late-story development. The early and middle sections focus on Hermione stranded in 1969, young Severus, found family, healing, and timeline changes. There is no romantic dynamic while Severus is a child.
Tags will update as story progresses.Bookmarked by Shao7
09 Jun 2026