Not Quite Slash But Still Snarry

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These stories might be gen, pre-slash or in some way ambiguous (though they are not mentor!Snape or 'Severus is Harry's father' fic). The one thing they do have in common is that although there may not be a sexual relationship between Harry and Snape in these stories, they still explore the connection between the two.

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Acid
•Hello, Half Blood Prince, G, 1,153 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *gen, humor*
Summary: The Half-Blood Prince receives a letter.

Amorette
•Obligation is a Pain, PG, 3,620 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *ghost!Snape, humor*
Summary: Just because Snape is dead is no reason for him to stop watching over Harry--whether Harry wants him to or not.

•Learning to Uncurl, G, 3,997 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *humor*
Summary: A decade after hostilities are over, Harry finds his Animagus form to be terribly relaxing and since he thinks Snape needs to learn to relax, suggests Snape learn to be an animal as well. Surprises ensue.

Chiralove
•Angels and Ministers of Grace, PG-13, 3,239 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *hurt/comfort*
Summary: Potter and his band of ministering angels make the rounds every day.

•Reasons to Live, PG-13, 5,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *EWE*
Summary: A hundred reasons to live, a hundred ways to live – this one is enough for Harry.

Cruisedirector
•Castaways, PG-13, 2,962 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AR, angst*
Summary: Harry finds his onetime teacher and present colleague performing an unfamiliar ritual.

Cybele
•At the End of Waiting, PG-13, 1584 words. (gen)(Site registration required)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Self-Mutilation, angst*
Summary: A much anticipated moment is interrupted.

Dacro
•Act Five: Deconstruction of an Architect, PG-13, 8,500 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Severitus/Mentor!Snape (not romantic Snarry), minor character deaths, implied drug use, implied non-Snarry pairing.*
Summary: A reporter once asked of me, ‘Sir. If the most notable moments of your life were to be documented for the stage, how many acts would there be, and what would they be called?’ I was of a mind to ignore him, and yet an answer came to my lips—much to my surprise. “Four acts—in no certain order: Death of a Father, Death of a Servant, The Bridge, and The Arrival of the Boy." There is also this movement, a fifth and final act that I neglected to share with him. It has no title as of yet.

Deirdre Riordan
•Fire Call, PG, 775 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *overtones/pre-slash of SSHP, could be read as gen.*
Summary: Harry's stuck in Grimmauld place. A little conversation can go a long way.

Dracofiend
•The Silver Doe, PG-13, 7,011 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: Harry asks to see the silver doe again.

Elyciel
•Sacrifice, PG, 750 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: Harry just wants a hug, but Snape only gives him a lecture.

Flora/Florahart
•Waiting in Silence, G, 1,300 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Prompt: Snape teaches Harry how to use a Rosary.

•Non-Stick Surface, G, 725 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Prompt: For the wikipedia challenge: passport card.

•The Morning After, PG, 2,600 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *pre-slash*
Summary: With Voldemort gone, Severus wakes.

GMTH
•Lurker in the Gaps, PG, 1,376 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: Harry ignores some good advice.

Janice Lester
•Expecto..., PG-13, 10,200 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Mpreg, EWE, pre-slash.*
Summary: Snape gets a visit from the stork stag. Harry gets an unwanted house-guest.

Linelen
•In Good Time, PG, 4,448
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None listed.*
Summary: Healing, like all things, comes with time.

Lolitaray
• An Understanding, R, 1,315 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Prompt: Snape/Harry tied to canon.

Lotrwariorgodss
•This Moratorium on Life, PG-13, 11,300 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *EWE, het, slash*
Summary: "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live…"

LoupGarou1750
•Pimp, PG, 439 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *pre-slash*
Summary: Dumbledore really is a meddlesome git, thank god.

Lyras
•Out of the Shadows, PG, 1,333 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: Harry Potter walks into the Great Hall, and your breath disappears.

Madsciencechick
•Out of the Shadows (Shadow and Light Remix), PG, 1,142 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: Everything is different, now.

Mariner
•Harry Potter and the Polka Dot Plague, PG, 19,727 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: Harry Potter discovers why polka dots are evil. Severus Snape discovers why it's a bad idea to forge your medical records. Lucius Malfoy discovers why you shouldn't give surprise gifts to your boss.

Megyal
•My Kind of Guy, PG, 1,936 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Unrequited!love, angst*
Summary: Harry is a happy-go-lucky kind of guy with a boyfriend; Snape is repressed and teeth-grittingly, fist-clenchingly jealous because Harry likes him but doesn't like him.

Meri Oddities/Meri
•Better Days, PG, 2,972 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *pre-slash*
Summary: In the future there are better days.

•The Bed You Made, PG-13, 28,000 words. (mentor and pre-slash)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Unwanted pregnancy*
Summary: Harry is cursed. And when it's all over, he's left to deal with the aftermath. He gets some help from an unlikely source.

Pauraque
•Whet, G, 350 words. See art, Wet, by Kaptainsnot here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: Written for Wet by Kaptainsnot.

Ria
•Blood on His Hands, PG, 609 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: They said he was obsessed with Draco Malfoy. This is not the same.

Rinsbane
•A Swan, A Tree (something far away and happy), PG, 10,000 words. (gen/pre-slash) (Entry is locked to registered users of AO3)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None listed.*
Summary: The war comes home to Hogwarts. So do people. Sometimes we can’t see all the pieces of a puzzle and we just have to trust that things will work out.

Sam Vines
•Anywhere But Here, G, 2,541 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None*
Summary: Severus Snape runs into an old student in an unlikely place, and tells some uncomfortable truths to the Boy Who Ran Away.

Saraid
•Testing, Testing, PG, 5,882 words (gen) Read review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Homophobia*
Summary: Harry discovers that the wizarding world isn't as open-minded as we all thought.

Semi Subtle
•Tell Harry, PG-13, 579 words. (Locked community, please ask for friending).
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Major character death.*
Summary: A scene from Deathly Hallows, re-written to accommodate some Snarry we ALL know was there.

Shalott/Astolat
•Older, Wiser, Sadder, G, 1,481 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Character death, not Snape or Harry.*
Summary: Before the beginning of the affair.

Sinope
•Lucid, PG, 2,944 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Angst, slash*
Summary: Snape finds that Occlumency leaves its traces in his mind and in his dreams, and that controlling thoughts does not mean controlling desires.

Switchknife
•Solvo, R, 2,256 words
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Het*
Summary: 'One day, Snape doesn't come to teach them classes.'

Telanu
•Harry Potter and the Graduate Assistantship, G, 523 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, humor*
Summary: Harry Potter chirped brightly (as though there were another way to chirp) as he skipped down the corridor towards Professor Snape's office. This was the very first day of his graduate assistantship and he was so excited.

The Con Cept (Also known as Abstract Concept and Starry Gazer)
•End of the World, PG-13, 750 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Angst, romance, dystopia, post-war AU, pre-slash,
implied past character death, darkish*
Summary: Harry lost the war, but that doesn't mean he has to like it, as Snape is there to remind him.

•Stick, PG-13, 4,131 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *pre-slash*
Summary: After the war, Severus goes looking for peace. Harry goes looking for Severus. Severus finds strength in himself, but will he also learn to bend?

The Minx 17
•The Fluidity of Magic, PG, 1,180 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *dark!Harry*
Summary: In which legend is proven to be fact.

ThreeSidedOrchid (Also known as Synn)
•Learning to Speak, PG-13, 10,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Pre-slash, hurt.comfort*
Summary: "Most men spend their lives trying to either brush off the ashes of their youth, or rekindle them. The truth is that the only way to move forward is to accept them. "

Tiranog
•A Nick In Time, PG-13, 52,821 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *pre-slash, hurt/comfort, violence/torture, de-aging*
Summary: Harry Potter and Severus Snape awake to an unusual development on Boxing Day.

Toft
•Facing the Music, PG, 1,248 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None listed.*
Summary: Severus plays the violin. You would be surprised how few of the staff at Hogwarts would be able to tell you that, let alone students. Or perhaps you would not. He plays with the same cold, exact brilliance with which he calculates ingredients and follows recipes with his hands and mind; his slim fingers are sure on the strings and bow, his black hair falling across his eyes.

•Curiosity, PG, 2.183 words. Sequel to "Facing the Music"
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *None listed.*
Summary: So Harry was back. A little taller and as thin, but less awkward, and more comfortable with his own limbs; his robes fitting, too, although his unruly hair still conspired to make him look as if he'd just woken up. Professor Potter, now; quite aware that he only had the permission of the Ministry to take the post so young because it was not yet safe for him to leave Hogwarts, but determined nonetheless to be good at his job.

Vain
•Fourteen Fathoms, PG, 3,122 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Angst*
Summary: Snape discovers something disturbing about Harry and acts . . . like Snape.

Vissy
•Seasoned Sound, PG-13, 15,750 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Seasickness and Splinching. Generally epilogue-compliant, but EWE with respect to Harry and Severus*
Summary: Eight lonely years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry investigates an old friend's Apparition mishap and discovers more than he had thought to hope for.

Yevgenie
•Lilacs Out of the Dead Land, R, 14,627 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *violence, subtext*
Summary: Potter asked, he repeated to himself. You have only given him what he asked for. It is not your fault that he does not know what he has asked for.

Ziasudra
•The Headmaster's Portrait, G, 1,025 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Portrait!Snape*
Summary: Noticing that Snape wasn't given a portrait in the Headmaster's office, Harry decided to take matters into his own hands.

•Heptagon Boy, G, 1,178 words. (gen)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *post-DH*
Summary: When Severus woke up from his traumatic encounter with Nagini, he found himself back at his favourite spot—his childhood playground.

Zillah
•Sitting Still, PG-13, 1,540 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, pre-slash, hurt/comfort*
Summary: In the years following the Great War, Severus Snape did little more than exist.

Updated June, 2013