Alternate Universe/Reality
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snarry_readerAU/AR stories can deviate from canon a little or a lot although they aren't only non-canon compliant. You'll find non-magical AU, Slytherin!Harry and even Harry and Severus on the Starship Enterprise or in Victorian London.
Acid and Sinick
•Commonplace Magic, M, 19,117 words. See review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU*
Summary: No doom of the wizarding world hanging in the balance, no tragic premature death. Just Harry getting inside a solitary man's defences, by not really trying.
•The Price of Magic, R, 184,162 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Major character death, Ghost Sex, Supernatural Elements, Apocalypse, Afterlife, AU*
Summary: Haunted by the ghost of a former student, an ex-wizard struggles to preserve magical knowledge for future generations.
When Harry Potter died, twin wands' explosion wiped Europe clean of magic. Enchantment-free, Gringotts crumbled into a mass grave for goblin bodies. Pixie corpses covered the meadows. Romanians buried their last dragon.
Wizards remained. Thousands flooded Muggle streets with useless chanting, unable to return home through non-existent wards.
They had nothing except pride. Remember that when watching a middle-aged, redheaded waitress and her daughter taunted by children for their strange way of talking, passing the sallow-faced, somber neighbour who prefers candles to electricity, finding a sky-blue twinkle under matted hair of a homeless man.
Pride was the reason they survived.
Amanuensis
•Act of Faith, NC-17, 5,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Torture, Non-Con, side het pairing (past Harry/Hermione), Priest!Snape*
Summary: In 1492, Spain launched something far more shameful than just one misdirected Genoan and his three ships. And only those of limpieza de sangre--pure blood--were safe. And in truth, not even them.
Babygray
•Where He Belongs, PG-13/R, 15,050 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Angst, AU, Time Travel, implied bottom!Snape*
Summary: While drinking alone one night, Severus Snape finds himself entertaining a visitor who, technically, does not exist.
Beth H./BethBethBeth
•At Ganymede's Hands, R, 1,935 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU (non-magical, theatre setting), Cross-dressing, bad language, hands and mouths and fellatio, oh my! Also...cigarettes and alcohol.*
Summary: In which Harry displays his 'feminine side,' and Severus Snape reveals more than he had intended.
•Everything He Ever Wanted, PG, 8,770 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) **Non-graphic Het (Snape/Lily; Harry/Ginny); What looks like an AU in parts; Some totally understandable cursing and angst; A slim chance that the Epilogue will never happen.**
Summary: Wouldn't it be wonderful, if at life's end, you were given everything you'd ever wished for? Severus Snape used to think so.
•Learning the Landscape, NC-17, 21,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Strong language, semi-public fellatio, anal sex, references to despicable political allegiances, hate crimes, and other criminal activities. AU*
Summary: Second generation celebrity, pop sensation, rising movie star: Harry Potter is looking for something more meaningful in his life than mere fame. However, when he inexplicably decides to make ex-con Steven Snape part of that "something more meaningful," well...it's too much to expect the press to ignore it forever.
Caesia
•Utterly Mundane, NC-17, 1,677 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU*
Summary: When Harry sees him in the club, his first thought isn’t, ‘He looks like my parents’ age.’ That’s not the type of thing you think in clubs, not when you’re the one on the prowl.
Cat Samwise
•Pride and Prejudice PG-13, 25,947 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU*
Summary: The life of Harry Potter, the schoolteacher, changes abruptly, when a party of rich unmarried men comes to visit his town. Will he be able to win over the man he loves?
Centaury Squill
•Across the Galaxy, NC-17/NC-17 (NWS), 30,350 words. Art by![[info]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/d0900ce718c4/227243-5097/www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
swtalmnd.
Content/Warning(s): (highlight for spoilers) *Offscreen character death (not Severus or Harry), non-magical AU*
Summary: When Harry sees an intriguing stranger on a video transmission from a far-distant planet, he knows he just has to meet him. Even if he has to cross the galaxy to do it.
Review: You can find a review for "Across the Galaxy" here.
Chiralove
•The Winning Move, R, 2,380 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Canon character death. non-Snarry pairings.*
Summary: Five ways Severus's 50th birthday could have happened, and one way it did happen.
Claggart
•All Things Considered, PG-13, 5,586 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: Harry thought going to war would be better than staying with the Dursleys. Too young to enlist, he sneaks on board a ship departing for war. When he is discovered, Severus Snape, an officer, is told to take care of him until he can be sent back home.
Deirdre_aithne
•Potter's Keeper, PG-13, 9,904 words.
Content/Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Muggle!AU, off-screen use of unnamed drugs, mention of past character death/suicide (not Severus or Harry)*
Summary: Prompt #104 - Non-magic AU. Harry and Snape are neighbors. Harry has a boyfriend and both of them are into drugs. The boyfriend leaves him and in a fit of depression, Harry, without wanting to, overdoses. Snape (works as a writer at home) finds him because he hears some noise in the flat. Takes him to the hospital and then to his own flat. They fall in love.
Review: You can find a review for Potter's Keeper here.
Dementordelta
•An Awfully Odd Adventure, R, 13,904 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU, first-times, romance*
Summary: Harry Potter as a Lost Boy, Snape as a certain pirate captain.
•I Dream of Harry, NC-17, 33,665 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU, romance, first-times*
Summary: Severus Snape finds a magical object, or does a magical object find Severus Snape?
Diagonalist
•Bringing Out the Hidden, NC-17, 13,586 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Alternate Universe, First Time, Drama-Angst, Hurt-Comfort, Romance*
Summary: Harry was removed from the Dursleys by Dumbledore at age eleven after abuse which made him mute. He is kept a secret for six years, until the Headmaster wants him to receive tutoring in potions.
Dingochow
•The Cinnabar Sling, a story from Not Groom Lake, NC-17, 15,707 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU. Masturbation. Dirty talk. Wall!sex, library!sex, pickup truck!sex, outdoor!sex. Voyeurism. Very mild bondage. Just rather pervy all around. (Also, some attempts at humor.)*
Summary: The Spider didn't like boys. Not officially. What Spider liked was men, men fairly close to his own age, say between thirty and fifty or fifty-five, men who were just as jaded and kinky as he was. No soppy stuff, no wide eyes gazing up at him in admiration, no sexually charged hero worship or passionate eagerness to learn. Spider liked pickups and casual meetings, or, at the very most, he might tolerate what the younger generation called "friends with benefits". He certainly didn't want to be anybody's first time, much less his first love. Talk about scarring some poor innocent little bastard for life.
Drachenmina
•The Riddle of the Grange, NC-17, 18,800 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, Character death (not Severus/Harry) *
Summary: Non-magic AU set in the late Victorian era. Chief Inspector Severus Snape of Scotland Yard comes to Hogsmeade to investigate a most baffling murder at the Riddle house. Fortunately PC Potter is eager to assist him in all matters.
•The Gifts Series:
•Harvest Gifts, G, 1,400 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: House-sitting for his mother, Severus is disturbed by a young man bearing gifts.
•Gifts with Consequences, PG-15, 1,400 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: Severus learns the importance of being a good listener.
•Homecoming Gifts, NC-17, 1,900 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: Severus and Harry move in together.
•Of Indeterminate Viscosity, NC-17, 33,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Light bondage, mystery*
Summary: AU. Voldemort was killed in the first war, and Harry Potter never became the Boy Who Lived. One night, Harry overhears a conversation in which James claims he is not Harry’s real father. But who is?
Go Seaward
•Laws of Magnetic Attraction, NC-17, 16,500 words. Read review here
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Guns*
Summary: Harry Potter, war hero, comes home after sustaining an injury in the service of his country-only to find that the war at home is much more dangerous.
Hidden Decay
•Sunday, PG-15, 9396 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Some Adult Language, implied sexual situations between two adult males, violence, AU No-magic Universe, deafness*
Summary: It's all a matter of ritual, kneel, cross, rise, kneel, sit, stand. Then someone enters Harry Potter's life and changes it all around.
Isis
•Briar Nose, PG, 3,199 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU, Fairy Tale, First Time, Humour, Romance*
Summary: A sweet and funny Potterverse version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Except she's not beautiful, she's not sleeping, and, well, maybe 'she' isn't the right word...
Jin Fenghuang
•The Life of Another, R, 40,000 words.
Warnings: (Chan, both are 16) (highlight for spoilers) *Kissing and groping, chan, could be considered Alternate Reality, Time travel: Marauder era. Wish magic.*
Summary: When Vernon takes away his Hogwarts Letter, Harry makes a wish. A wish to have another life, to meet his parents and to go to Hogwarts. A wish that splits Harry in two and carries one Harry back in time, while the other lives on in the present.
JoanWilder (Also known as RaeWhit)
•Two If By Sea, NC-17, 49,043 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU, drama, romance*
Summary: Harry spends a summer away from the Wizarding world, working for Severus Snape, neither of them aware of the other’s heritage. Their collision with fate will change both of them forever.
Lakhesis/Moiraithanatoio
•The Return of the Prodigal, R, 27,007 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, time-travel*
Summary: When Harry is tossed backwards in time through a magical accident, he has no choice but to return the hard way. One day at a time.
Lexin
•Through a Glass, Darkly, NC-17, 26,938 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (Chan, 14) (highlight for spoilers) *Chan, AU, h/c, violence, character death, angst, dark, sexual exploitation.*
Summary: Long ago, and in a world ruled by a Dark Lord, Harry Potter went to Hogwarts.
•A Life More Ordinary, R, 24,465 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Mpreg, angst, AU*
Summary: Snape is told some bad news, and it goes downhill from there.
Lexin and Tidmag
•Unnatural, NC-17, 27,514 words.
Warnings: (Chan)(highlight for spoilers) *Mpreg, hermaphrodite!Harry, chan, AU*
Summary: Far far away, in an alternate universe, hermaphrodite Harry gets into trouble. That's not just ordinary trouble, but "trouble".
LinW (Also known as Nesting Hedwig)
•The Perfect Wife, R, 12,306 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, Harry is raised as a woman*
Summary: In the 1800's, a schoolteacher is forced into an arranged marriage by an overbearing uncle.
•Salt in the Wound, PG/R, 16,265 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, character death*
Summary: The War of 1812 - Men at Sea.
Author's Note: In the years between 1803 and 1812 British naval captains seized over 10,000 American sailors to man British ships against their will. This practice was known as impressment. The pressing of American sailors was not the sole cause of what became known as The War of 1812, but it was one of the major deciding factors.
During the early months of the conflict, the HMS Macedonian fought a battle with the USS United States in the Atlantic Ocean some 500 miles west of the Canary Islands. An excerpt of Samuel Leeches' biography "A Voice From The Main Deck" was the reference used to create the following Harry Potter-ized version of this historical event.
Lydia Lovestruck
Le Beau et le Bete, a Fairy Tale in Three Parts:
•Part One: Transgressions, PG-13, 5,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, fairytale*
Summary: A Snarry re-telling of 'Beauty and the Beast'
•Part Two: Le Bete, PG-13, 5,001 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, fairytale*
Summary: A Snarry re-telling of 'Beauty and the Beast'
•Part Three: Le Beau, PG-13, 4,989 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, fairytale*
Summary: A Snarry re-telling of 'Beauty and the Beast'
Mahaliem
•Regency Snarry, R, 2,600 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, Regency Snarry*
Summary: Harry dismounted and handed the reins to a waiting groom, whom he failed to recognize, for far too many years had passed since he'd left.
Melora98
•Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, PG, 7,531 words. See review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, no magic, and I made them American. Sorry. Romance, Harry is deaf.*
Summary: The town of Normal, Illinois lived up to its name.
Mouse
•Corvus Fallere Books I and II, NC-17, 126,012 words.
Warnings: (Chan, 16-18) (highlight for spoilers) *Ambiguous Consent, BDSM, Bloodplay/Breathplay, Bondage, Chan 16-18, Character Death, Dark, Dom/Sub Relationship, Fetish/Kink, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Multiple Partners, Mutilation, Non-Con, Non-Snarry Pairing, Object Penetration, Rape, Rimming, Suicide/Attempted Suicide, Threesomes, Violence/Torture, Horror*
Summary: How long do you fight when you've already lost? Harry, Ron, and Hermione must survive in a world where all is not what it seems; but what it seems is unbearable. AND It's one thing to accept your fate, another to live it.
Necromanticnoir
•Know Thine Own Heart; The Scandalous (and Spiritual) Tale of Mr Harry Potter, NC-17, 74,697 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *BDSM, Bondage, Character Death, Crack!, Crossdressing, Homophobia, Homicide/Murder, Hurt/Comfort, Object Penetration, Rimming, Threesomes, Violence/Torture, pony-play*
Summary: London, 1816. Genteel young clerk Harry Potter is blackmailed by the sinfully wicked Severus Snape. By what does Mr Snape truly desire, and what does it take for Harry to know his own heart? This is Regency-style Harry Potter with cock-fighting *wink*, some good old-fashioned duelling and some scandalous lovemaking – plus a dash of spiritual true, true love
Odogoddess
•Harry the Potter & The Good Prince Severus the Pouty, NC-17, 4,350 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Humour with the merest drop of angst and including - hair frottage, anal play, rimming, a hand job, and mention of happy porpoises having blowhole sex*
Summary: The long captive good Prince Severus the Pouty finds handsome young Harry the Potter a most charming visitor...
Perfica
•Come Out of the West, NC-17, 9,317 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, Drama, First Time*
Summary: Spending time with an injured man causes a bored Harry Potter to rethink his options in life.
Perverse Idyll
•The White Road, NC-17, 46,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Hettishness but no outright heterosex, voyeurism, accidental incestuous overtones, a bloody moment.*
Summary: One day, comfortably set up in the afterlife, Lily Evans Potter switches on the telly and gets hooked on the Harry Potter show.
Rantipole
•Perchance to Dream, NC-17, 4,598 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *BDSM, Bondage, Character Death - Snape/Harry, Dom/Sub Relationship, Fairytale, Dream-Sex, Mindfuck.*
Summary: He wished with all his heart for something he could not name, for something that he could not see, only feel. It was there, perfectly formed, and all he had to do was reach out and touch it.
Ravenna C Tan
•Halfway, NC-17, 9,707 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, Ambiguous Consent, Multiple Partners*
Summary: When you're amnesiac and in the care of the state, you spend a lot of time trying not to think about why the boy named Harry Potter seems familiar to you... (Appears to be nonmagical AU and can be read as such.)
Rinsbane and Perverse Idyll
•The Nutcracker's Delight, NC-17, 17,500 words. (Entry is locked to registered users on AO3)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, crack, fluff, schmoop and general zaniness. Fanon Severus, not canon Snape.*
Summary: This will make much more sense (we use that word loosely!) if you’ve seen the Nutcracker ballet or read a version of the tale recently.
Sansa (Also known as Libby Drew)
•A Time to Change, NC-17, 78,000 words. Read a review here.
Warnings: (Chan, 16-18)(highlight for spoilers) *Chan, 16-18, Romance, Angst, Drama, First Time, Time Travel*
Summary: Harry wishes he was never the Boy-Who-Lived and his wish is granted. Now he has to bear the consequences, namely sacrificing everything he has gained in order to save his world. He finds love along the way, but will it be snatched away from him just like everything else?
Snakeling
•And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Read review here.
Warnings: (Chan) (highlight for spoilers) *Slytherin!Harry, AU, ghost!Snape, Sex between two underage characters 14/16*
Summary: Harry finds himself shunned by the other Slytherins, except one.
Snarkyscorp
•Assume the Position, R, 700 words.
Warnings: (Chan) (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, paddling (with a yardstick), teacher/student, dub-con, light abuse*
Summary: Mr. Snape, Harry's awful biology teacher, demands that Hermione and Ron spend detention with Harry to teach Harry a lesson. When Harry asks for leniency, Snape is swift to acquiesce.
Starcrossedgirl
•The Boy Who Died A Lot, NC-17/PG-13, 72K words. Art by![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=3)
acid3
Content/Warning(s): (highlight for spoilers) *Repeated major character death (don’t worry, it doesn’t stick!), bucketloads of dark humour, chan (one kiss at 15, sexual awareness from Snape’s part ~age 15/16 onwards, but no actual underage sex), angst with the odd touch of horror, brief attempted non-con (not in Snarry pairing), suicidal ideation and attempt, moral greyness and flawed characters, wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. Oh, and a decidedly happy ending. ;)*
Summary: Harry’s always been known as The Boy Who Lived. Only Severus knows that this is a lie. (Or: a portrait of Severus Snape, in seven acts.)
Review: You can find a review for "The Boy Who Died A Lot" here.
Suitesamba
•All Who Wander, NC-17, 19,300 words.
Warning(s): (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU*
Summary: Severus, a self-exiled British wizard, lives a solitary life on the American plains, studying the magic of the land. Harry, a reluctant newlywed traveling west, is found by Severus, half-dead and miles from his party. The two have much more in common than it would appear, and embark on a quest together to bring Harry home – wherever that may be.
Review: You can find a review for "All Who Wander" here.
Tara Tory
•Sleeping Beauty, Hogwarts Style, PG-13, 5,022 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, romance*
Summary: Snape falls prey to Malfoy machinations and into a magical sleep. Who can break the spell?
Teka Lynn
•Clipped Wings, R, 22,040 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, angst, references to previous character deaths, Snape sold at auction.*
Summary: After catastrophe, Harry deals with survivor's guilt and finds hope for himself and others.
The Con Cept (Also known as Abstract Concept and Starry Gazer)
•A Cure for Frost, R, 8,587 words.
Warnings: (Chan, 15)(highlight for spoilers) *Chan (Harry is fifteen), AU, set in the middle of Book 5*
Summary: Harry breaks a mirror and subsequently finds himself in possession of a small snow cloud. It’s Snape’s responsibility to cure the boy, whether he wants it or not.
•Snape and the Tie That Binds, PG-13, 9,214 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, humor, romance*
Summary: Harry has decided it's time to settle down with a good woman. Snape counteracts this dastardly idea with a plan of great shrewdness…
Torino10154
•Esse Quam Videri, NC-17, 17,574 words and all Outtakes from the Esse Quam Videri Universe, G - NC-17, 10,615 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, first-times, Homophobia, Rimming, Romance*
Summary: In a small town in North Carolina in the 1950's, Harry James works for his father, does chores for his mother, and finds romance in the most unlikely of places.
•The "Two of a Kind" Series, PG-13, 8,537 total words.
Two of a Kind
Falling Gently
Stumble and Fall
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
A Break in the Clouds
Cool, Calm, Collected
Something to Someone
Content/Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: Factory foreman, Severus Snape, is a man of few words and even fewer creature comforts. As he gets to know and understand more about his employee, Harry Potter, in each installment of the series, their relations develops slowly into one of mutual understanding and comfort. Non-magic AU.
Review: You can find a review for The "Two of a Kind" series here.
WordsConsumeHer
•Resonant Dissonance, NC-17, 8,606 words.
Content/Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: When a mysterious musical score lands in Severus' postbox, he finds himself travelling halfway across the world to play its evocative solo... and finding more than he bargained.
Review: You can find a review for Resonant Dissonance here.
(Updated June, 2013)
Acid and Sinick
•Commonplace Magic, M, 19,117 words. See review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU*
Summary: No doom of the wizarding world hanging in the balance, no tragic premature death. Just Harry getting inside a solitary man's defences, by not really trying.
•The Price of Magic, R, 184,162 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Major character death, Ghost Sex, Supernatural Elements, Apocalypse, Afterlife, AU*
Summary: Haunted by the ghost of a former student, an ex-wizard struggles to preserve magical knowledge for future generations.
When Harry Potter died, twin wands' explosion wiped Europe clean of magic. Enchantment-free, Gringotts crumbled into a mass grave for goblin bodies. Pixie corpses covered the meadows. Romanians buried their last dragon.
Wizards remained. Thousands flooded Muggle streets with useless chanting, unable to return home through non-existent wards.
They had nothing except pride. Remember that when watching a middle-aged, redheaded waitress and her daughter taunted by children for their strange way of talking, passing the sallow-faced, somber neighbour who prefers candles to electricity, finding a sky-blue twinkle under matted hair of a homeless man.
Pride was the reason they survived.
Amanuensis
•Act of Faith, NC-17, 5,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Torture, Non-Con, side het pairing (past Harry/Hermione), Priest!Snape*
Summary: In 1492, Spain launched something far more shameful than just one misdirected Genoan and his three ships. And only those of limpieza de sangre--pure blood--were safe. And in truth, not even them.
Babygray
•Where He Belongs, PG-13/R, 15,050 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Angst, AU, Time Travel, implied bottom!Snape*
Summary: While drinking alone one night, Severus Snape finds himself entertaining a visitor who, technically, does not exist.
Beth H./BethBethBeth
•At Ganymede's Hands, R, 1,935 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU (non-magical, theatre setting), Cross-dressing, bad language, hands and mouths and fellatio, oh my! Also...cigarettes and alcohol.*
Summary: In which Harry displays his 'feminine side,' and Severus Snape reveals more than he had intended.
•Everything He Ever Wanted, PG, 8,770 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) **Non-graphic Het (Snape/Lily; Harry/Ginny); What looks like an AU in parts; Some totally understandable cursing and angst; A slim chance that the Epilogue will never happen.**
Summary: Wouldn't it be wonderful, if at life's end, you were given everything you'd ever wished for? Severus Snape used to think so.
•Learning the Landscape, NC-17, 21,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Strong language, semi-public fellatio, anal sex, references to despicable political allegiances, hate crimes, and other criminal activities. AU*
Summary: Second generation celebrity, pop sensation, rising movie star: Harry Potter is looking for something more meaningful in his life than mere fame. However, when he inexplicably decides to make ex-con Steven Snape part of that "something more meaningful," well...it's too much to expect the press to ignore it forever.
Caesia
•Utterly Mundane, NC-17, 1,677 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU*
Summary: When Harry sees him in the club, his first thought isn’t, ‘He looks like my parents’ age.’ That’s not the type of thing you think in clubs, not when you’re the one on the prowl.
Cat Samwise
•Pride and Prejudice PG-13, 25,947 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU*
Summary: The life of Harry Potter, the schoolteacher, changes abruptly, when a party of rich unmarried men comes to visit his town. Will he be able to win over the man he loves?
Centaury Squill
•Across the Galaxy, NC-17/NC-17 (NWS), 30,350 words. Art by
swtalmnd.Content/Warning(s): (highlight for spoilers) *Offscreen character death (not Severus or Harry), non-magical AU*
Summary: When Harry sees an intriguing stranger on a video transmission from a far-distant planet, he knows he just has to meet him. Even if he has to cross the galaxy to do it.
Review: You can find a review for "Across the Galaxy" here.
Chiralove
•The Winning Move, R, 2,380 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Canon character death. non-Snarry pairings.*
Summary: Five ways Severus's 50th birthday could have happened, and one way it did happen.
Claggart
•All Things Considered, PG-13, 5,586 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: Harry thought going to war would be better than staying with the Dursleys. Too young to enlist, he sneaks on board a ship departing for war. When he is discovered, Severus Snape, an officer, is told to take care of him until he can be sent back home.
Deirdre_aithne
•Potter's Keeper, PG-13, 9,904 words.
Content/Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Muggle!AU, off-screen use of unnamed drugs, mention of past character death/suicide (not Severus or Harry)*
Summary: Prompt #104 - Non-magic AU. Harry and Snape are neighbors. Harry has a boyfriend and both of them are into drugs. The boyfriend leaves him and in a fit of depression, Harry, without wanting to, overdoses. Snape (works as a writer at home) finds him because he hears some noise in the flat. Takes him to the hospital and then to his own flat. They fall in love.
Review: You can find a review for Potter's Keeper here.
Dementordelta
•An Awfully Odd Adventure, R, 13,904 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU, first-times, romance*
Summary: Harry Potter as a Lost Boy, Snape as a certain pirate captain.
•I Dream of Harry, NC-17, 33,665 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU, romance, first-times*
Summary: Severus Snape finds a magical object, or does a magical object find Severus Snape?
Diagonalist
•Bringing Out the Hidden, NC-17, 13,586 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Alternate Universe, First Time, Drama-Angst, Hurt-Comfort, Romance*
Summary: Harry was removed from the Dursleys by Dumbledore at age eleven after abuse which made him mute. He is kept a secret for six years, until the Headmaster wants him to receive tutoring in potions.
Dingochow
•The Cinnabar Sling, a story from Not Groom Lake, NC-17, 15,707 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU. Masturbation. Dirty talk. Wall!sex, library!sex, pickup truck!sex, outdoor!sex. Voyeurism. Very mild bondage. Just rather pervy all around. (Also, some attempts at humor.)*
Summary: The Spider didn't like boys. Not officially. What Spider liked was men, men fairly close to his own age, say between thirty and fifty or fifty-five, men who were just as jaded and kinky as he was. No soppy stuff, no wide eyes gazing up at him in admiration, no sexually charged hero worship or passionate eagerness to learn. Spider liked pickups and casual meetings, or, at the very most, he might tolerate what the younger generation called "friends with benefits". He certainly didn't want to be anybody's first time, much less his first love. Talk about scarring some poor innocent little bastard for life.
Drachenmina
•The Riddle of the Grange, NC-17, 18,800 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, Character death (not Severus/Harry) *
Summary: Non-magic AU set in the late Victorian era. Chief Inspector Severus Snape of Scotland Yard comes to Hogsmeade to investigate a most baffling murder at the Riddle house. Fortunately PC Potter is eager to assist him in all matters.
•The Gifts Series:
•Harvest Gifts, G, 1,400 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: House-sitting for his mother, Severus is disturbed by a young man bearing gifts.
•Gifts with Consequences, PG-15, 1,400 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: Severus learns the importance of being a good listener.
•Homecoming Gifts, NC-17, 1,900 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: Severus and Harry move in together.
•Of Indeterminate Viscosity, NC-17, 33,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Light bondage, mystery*
Summary: AU. Voldemort was killed in the first war, and Harry Potter never became the Boy Who Lived. One night, Harry overhears a conversation in which James claims he is not Harry’s real father. But who is?
Go Seaward
•Laws of Magnetic Attraction, NC-17, 16,500 words. Read review here
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Guns*
Summary: Harry Potter, war hero, comes home after sustaining an injury in the service of his country-only to find that the war at home is much more dangerous.
Hidden Decay
•Sunday, PG-15, 9396 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Some Adult Language, implied sexual situations between two adult males, violence, AU No-magic Universe, deafness*
Summary: It's all a matter of ritual, kneel, cross, rise, kneel, sit, stand. Then someone enters Harry Potter's life and changes it all around.
Isis
•Briar Nose, PG, 3,199 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU, Fairy Tale, First Time, Humour, Romance*
Summary: A sweet and funny Potterverse version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Except she's not beautiful, she's not sleeping, and, well, maybe 'she' isn't the right word...
Jin Fenghuang
•The Life of Another, R, 40,000 words.
Warnings: (Chan, both are 16) (highlight for spoilers) *Kissing and groping, chan, could be considered Alternate Reality, Time travel: Marauder era. Wish magic.*
Summary: When Vernon takes away his Hogwarts Letter, Harry makes a wish. A wish to have another life, to meet his parents and to go to Hogwarts. A wish that splits Harry in two and carries one Harry back in time, while the other lives on in the present.
JoanWilder (Also known as RaeWhit)
•Two If By Sea, NC-17, 49,043 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU, drama, romance*
Summary: Harry spends a summer away from the Wizarding world, working for Severus Snape, neither of them aware of the other’s heritage. Their collision with fate will change both of them forever.
Lakhesis/Moiraithanatoio
•The Return of the Prodigal, R, 27,007 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, time-travel*
Summary: When Harry is tossed backwards in time through a magical accident, he has no choice but to return the hard way. One day at a time.
Lexin
•Through a Glass, Darkly, NC-17, 26,938 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (Chan, 14) (highlight for spoilers) *Chan, AU, h/c, violence, character death, angst, dark, sexual exploitation.*
Summary: Long ago, and in a world ruled by a Dark Lord, Harry Potter went to Hogwarts.
•A Life More Ordinary, R, 24,465 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Mpreg, angst, AU*
Summary: Snape is told some bad news, and it goes downhill from there.
Lexin and Tidmag
•Unnatural, NC-17, 27,514 words.
Warnings: (Chan)(highlight for spoilers) *Mpreg, hermaphrodite!Harry, chan, AU*
Summary: Far far away, in an alternate universe, hermaphrodite Harry gets into trouble. That's not just ordinary trouble, but "trouble".
LinW (Also known as Nesting Hedwig)
•The Perfect Wife, R, 12,306 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, Harry is raised as a woman*
Summary: In the 1800's, a schoolteacher is forced into an arranged marriage by an overbearing uncle.
•Salt in the Wound, PG/R, 16,265 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, character death*
Summary: The War of 1812 - Men at Sea.
Author's Note: In the years between 1803 and 1812 British naval captains seized over 10,000 American sailors to man British ships against their will. This practice was known as impressment. The pressing of American sailors was not the sole cause of what became known as The War of 1812, but it was one of the major deciding factors.
During the early months of the conflict, the HMS Macedonian fought a battle with the USS United States in the Atlantic Ocean some 500 miles west of the Canary Islands. An excerpt of Samuel Leeches' biography "A Voice From The Main Deck" was the reference used to create the following Harry Potter-ized version of this historical event.
Lydia Lovestruck
Le Beau et le Bete, a Fairy Tale in Three Parts:
•Part One: Transgressions, PG-13, 5,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, fairytale*
Summary: A Snarry re-telling of 'Beauty and the Beast'
•Part Two: Le Bete, PG-13, 5,001 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, fairytale*
Summary: A Snarry re-telling of 'Beauty and the Beast'
•Part Three: Le Beau, PG-13, 4,989 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, fairytale*
Summary: A Snarry re-telling of 'Beauty and the Beast'
Mahaliem
•Regency Snarry, R, 2,600 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, Regency Snarry*
Summary: Harry dismounted and handed the reins to a waiting groom, whom he failed to recognize, for far too many years had passed since he'd left.
Melora98
•Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, PG, 7,531 words. See review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, no magic, and I made them American. Sorry. Romance, Harry is deaf.*
Summary: The town of Normal, Illinois lived up to its name.
Mouse
•Corvus Fallere Books I and II, NC-17, 126,012 words.
Warnings: (Chan, 16-18) (highlight for spoilers) *Ambiguous Consent, BDSM, Bloodplay/Breathplay, Bondage, Chan 16-18, Character Death, Dark, Dom/Sub Relationship, Fetish/Kink, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Multiple Partners, Mutilation, Non-Con, Non-Snarry Pairing, Object Penetration, Rape, Rimming, Suicide/Attempted Suicide, Threesomes, Violence/Torture, Horror*
Summary: How long do you fight when you've already lost? Harry, Ron, and Hermione must survive in a world where all is not what it seems; but what it seems is unbearable. AND It's one thing to accept your fate, another to live it.
Necromanticnoir
•Know Thine Own Heart; The Scandalous (and Spiritual) Tale of Mr Harry Potter, NC-17, 74,697 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *BDSM, Bondage, Character Death, Crack!, Crossdressing, Homophobia, Homicide/Murder, Hurt/Comfort, Object Penetration, Rimming, Threesomes, Violence/Torture, pony-play*
Summary: London, 1816. Genteel young clerk Harry Potter is blackmailed by the sinfully wicked Severus Snape. By what does Mr Snape truly desire, and what does it take for Harry to know his own heart? This is Regency-style Harry Potter with cock-fighting *wink*, some good old-fashioned duelling and some scandalous lovemaking – plus a dash of spiritual true, true love
Odogoddess
•Harry the Potter & The Good Prince Severus the Pouty, NC-17, 4,350 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Humour with the merest drop of angst and including - hair frottage, anal play, rimming, a hand job, and mention of happy porpoises having blowhole sex*
Summary: The long captive good Prince Severus the Pouty finds handsome young Harry the Potter a most charming visitor...
Perfica
•Come Out of the West, NC-17, 9,317 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, Drama, First Time*
Summary: Spending time with an injured man causes a bored Harry Potter to rethink his options in life.
Perverse Idyll
•The White Road, NC-17, 46,000 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Hettishness but no outright heterosex, voyeurism, accidental incestuous overtones, a bloody moment.*
Summary: One day, comfortably set up in the afterlife, Lily Evans Potter switches on the telly and gets hooked on the Harry Potter show.
Rantipole
•Perchance to Dream, NC-17, 4,598 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *BDSM, Bondage, Character Death - Snape/Harry, Dom/Sub Relationship, Fairytale, Dream-Sex, Mindfuck.*
Summary: He wished with all his heart for something he could not name, for something that he could not see, only feel. It was there, perfectly formed, and all he had to do was reach out and touch it.
Ravenna C Tan
•Halfway, NC-17, 9,707 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, Ambiguous Consent, Multiple Partners*
Summary: When you're amnesiac and in the care of the state, you spend a lot of time trying not to think about why the boy named Harry Potter seems familiar to you... (Appears to be nonmagical AU and can be read as such.)
Rinsbane and Perverse Idyll
•The Nutcracker's Delight, NC-17, 17,500 words. (Entry is locked to registered users on AO3)
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, crack, fluff, schmoop and general zaniness. Fanon Severus, not canon Snape.*
Summary: This will make much more sense (we use that word loosely!) if you’ve seen the Nutcracker ballet or read a version of the tale recently.
Sansa (Also known as Libby Drew)
•A Time to Change, NC-17, 78,000 words. Read a review here.
Warnings: (Chan, 16-18)(highlight for spoilers) *Chan, 16-18, Romance, Angst, Drama, First Time, Time Travel*
Summary: Harry wishes he was never the Boy-Who-Lived and his wish is granted. Now he has to bear the consequences, namely sacrificing everything he has gained in order to save his world. He finds love along the way, but will it be snatched away from him just like everything else?
Snakeling
•And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Read review here.
Warnings: (Chan) (highlight for spoilers) *Slytherin!Harry, AU, ghost!Snape, Sex between two underage characters 14/16*
Summary: Harry finds himself shunned by the other Slytherins, except one.
Snarkyscorp
•Assume the Position, R, 700 words.
Warnings: (Chan) (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, paddling (with a yardstick), teacher/student, dub-con, light abuse*
Summary: Mr. Snape, Harry's awful biology teacher, demands that Hermione and Ron spend detention with Harry to teach Harry a lesson. When Harry asks for leniency, Snape is swift to acquiesce.
Starcrossedgirl
•The Boy Who Died A Lot, NC-17/PG-13, 72K words. Art by
acid3Content/Warning(s): (highlight for spoilers) *Repeated major character death (don’t worry, it doesn’t stick!), bucketloads of dark humour, chan (one kiss at 15, sexual awareness from Snape’s part ~age 15/16 onwards, but no actual underage sex), angst with the odd touch of horror, brief attempted non-con (not in Snarry pairing), suicidal ideation and attempt, moral greyness and flawed characters, wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. Oh, and a decidedly happy ending. ;)*
Summary: Harry’s always been known as The Boy Who Lived. Only Severus knows that this is a lie. (Or: a portrait of Severus Snape, in seven acts.)
Review: You can find a review for "The Boy Who Died A Lot" here.
Suitesamba
•All Who Wander, NC-17, 19,300 words.
Warning(s): (highlight for spoilers) *Magical AU*
Summary: Severus, a self-exiled British wizard, lives a solitary life on the American plains, studying the magic of the land. Harry, a reluctant newlywed traveling west, is found by Severus, half-dead and miles from his party. The two have much more in common than it would appear, and embark on a quest together to bring Harry home – wherever that may be.
Review: You can find a review for "All Who Wander" here.
Tara Tory
•Sleeping Beauty, Hogwarts Style, PG-13, 5,022 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, romance*
Summary: Snape falls prey to Malfoy machinations and into a magical sleep. Who can break the spell?
Teka Lynn
•Clipped Wings, R, 22,040 words. Read review here.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, angst, references to previous character deaths, Snape sold at auction.*
Summary: After catastrophe, Harry deals with survivor's guilt and finds hope for himself and others.
The Con Cept (Also known as Abstract Concept and Starry Gazer)
•A Cure for Frost, R, 8,587 words.
Warnings: (Chan, 15)(highlight for spoilers) *Chan (Harry is fifteen), AU, set in the middle of Book 5*
Summary: Harry breaks a mirror and subsequently finds himself in possession of a small snow cloud. It’s Snape’s responsibility to cure the boy, whether he wants it or not.
•Snape and the Tie That Binds, PG-13, 9,214 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *AU, humor, romance*
Summary: Harry has decided it's time to settle down with a good woman. Snape counteracts this dastardly idea with a plan of great shrewdness…
Torino10154
•Esse Quam Videri, NC-17, 17,574 words and all Outtakes from the Esse Quam Videri Universe, G - NC-17, 10,615 words.
Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU, first-times, Homophobia, Rimming, Romance*
Summary: In a small town in North Carolina in the 1950's, Harry James works for his father, does chores for his mother, and finds romance in the most unlikely of places.
•The "Two of a Kind" Series, PG-13, 8,537 total words.
Two of a Kind
Falling Gently
Stumble and Fall
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
A Break in the Clouds
Cool, Calm, Collected
Something to Someone
Content/Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: Factory foreman, Severus Snape, is a man of few words and even fewer creature comforts. As he gets to know and understand more about his employee, Harry Potter, in each installment of the series, their relations develops slowly into one of mutual understanding and comfort. Non-magic AU.
Review: You can find a review for The "Two of a Kind" series here.
WordsConsumeHer
•Resonant Dissonance, NC-17, 8,606 words.
Content/Warnings: (highlight for spoilers) *Non-magic AU*
Summary: When a mysterious musical score lands in Severus' postbox, he finds himself travelling halfway across the world to play its evocative solo... and finding more than he bargained.
Review: You can find a review for Resonant Dissonance here.
(Updated June, 2013)
