Not Quite the Shilling

Title: Not Quite the Shilling
Author: Annie D
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry, Dumbledore
Warning: NC-17, slash, potion, post-war
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


Harry's back to teach at Hogwarts. It's mostly boring, but he likes it that way. Snape likes it that way, too.


AO3


Young(er) Snape and Harry. Not quite in character, but nonetheless a very enjoyable reading experience.

Mirror Magic

Title: Mirror Magic
Author: goseaward
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry, Snape/Lupin
Warning: R, slash
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


Or, to put it another way, Snape has a stalker and a fiftieth birthday.


AO3

Not much to add. The writing's rather good, and I like both pairings, so it worked for me.

The Same Coin

Title: The Same Coin

Author: Meri

Fandom: Harry Potter

Characters: Snape/Harry, McGonagall

Warning: R, slash, injury(Harry), post-war
Length: Novella
Status: Completed

After being injured as an Auror, Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts to teach Defense Against The Dark Arts.

AO3

LJ also

Definitely one of the classics. And definitely one of the classic writers.

The story features two of my favorites; post-war and Snarry. A winner in its own rights. The way their relationship progresses from despise to amiable friendship, then tentative love is believable and told in strong words.

Same Author as:
Courtship Rituals

The Silent World Within You

Title: The Silent World Within You
Author: femme, noeon
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Draco/Harry, Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione
Warning: R, slash, mpreg
Length: Novella
Status: Completed


Harry only wanted Malfoy for one night, one birthday. It wasn’t meant to be anything more.

At AO3


Mpreg coupled with a touch of PTSD/depression, EWE and 8th year. The story is epic, that's more or less my main reason to rec it. It's well-written, not amazing, but a solid, good work. Nothing to complain. The final encounter with death was a nice edge in the otherwise rather predictable story.

Occam's Razor

Title: Occam's Razor
Author: RaeWhit
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry, Draco/Harry
Warning: NC-17, slash, BDSM, post-war, horcrux
Length: Novella
Status: Completed


Two years after the end of the war, only desperation could make Harry seek out the help of a one-time enemy.


At AO3

Finally. This is the story which introduced me to RaeWhit almost two years ago. Since then, I've been in love with it. RaeWhit here shows again how to introduce subtle hints - the actual turnabout is a surprise, even if you already had some inklings. I was sure that Snape somehow survived but like Harry, I was deceived and believed it was Bat. Drarry and Snarry in one, so basically two for one. Go for it. In my opinion, RaeWhit's best story.

Same Author as:

Sex, Lies, and Audiobooks
Throwaways
Second Best
Starry Night
The Sensible Garden
Unnatural Selection
Filtered Past Boredom

Filtered Past Boredom

Title: Filtered Past Boredom
Author: RaeWhit
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry, Dumbledore
Warning: NC-17, slash, post-war, magic
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


Returning to Hogwarts to teach, Harry brings with him the disappointment of a life gone wrong and the expectation of a year filled with boredom. So he sets for himself a game of distraction: the seduction of Severus Snape.


At AO3


God, anything left to say? Besides: RaeWhit?
I love post-war, and this just is a down-right favorite of mine. Both, Snape and Harry, are depicted a bit darkish, with a manipulative streak. And most enjoyable, it's Dumbledore who beats them at their own game. RaeWhit explores their dark sides in this, after putting them as equals by making Harry a professor, too. While the actual story is not that outstanding, there's the usual subtlety RaeWhit's reknown for.

Same Author as:
Sex, Lies, and Audiobooks
Throwaways
Second Best
Starry Night
The Sensible Garden
Unnatural Selection
Occam's Razor

Starry Night

Title: Starry Night
Author: RaeWhit
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry, Draco/OMC, briefly Draco/Harry
Warning: PG-13, character death (Narcissa), post-war
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


It's been over four years since the end of the war, and Harry honestly doesn't know what he wants. Fortunately, someone else does.


At AO3

A bit of a borderliner. The story is not that unique but the structure is solid, the main idea, too. I can't find faults with the story but I felt it was a bit too easy to read for one of RaeWhit's works. Usually, there's a lot of subtlety inbetween the lines. This story lacked in that particular department but alas, it just didn't feel like one of RaeWhit's, this doesn't make it a bad fiction or lacking in comparison to other works.

Same Author as:
Throwaways
Sex, Lies, and Audiobooks
The Sensible Garden
Second Best
Unnatural Selection
Filtered Past Boredom
Occam's Razor

Draco Malfoy, It's Your Lucky Day

Title: Draco Malfoy, It's Your Lucky Day
Author: Faith Wood
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Draco/Harry
Warning: NC-17, slash, post-war, hogwarts, injury (Harry)
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


Even though he's unarmed, injured, lost in the Forbidden Forest, and facing a possible murder charge, Draco Malfoy gets lucky.


At AO3

I love 8th year fics. So, it's out. I came out of the closet XD I just think that the setting's really beautiful and a lot of angst and hope can bei conveyed simultaneously. There are no fixed developments, the end of the war can function as a turnabout. In that way, it's the best moment to start a fanfiction. This fanfiction alike chose to show a new angle. We see Draco who still bears the fruits of his death eater days. Mistrust. Then there's the angst he faces, the guilt he needs to work through. And in the end, the redeeming quality showing that hec can change, that he is not bound to remain the way he was before.


Same Author as:
At Your Service

At Your Service

Title: At Your Service
Author: Faith Wood
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Draco/Harry (switch), Hermione, Ron
Warning: NC-17, slash, character death, post-war, hogwarts, werewolf (Lavender)
Length: Novella
Status: Completed


Hogwarts students are in danger; Harry is determined to save them all. There's only one thing he knows for certain: Draco Malfoy is somehow involved.

At AO3


This story focuses on magic quirks.While it is definitely slashy, the relationship is not in the spotlight. This is a rather enjoyable 8th year fic and even though Harry also bottoms, I finished it in one session. The mystery is well-constructed and interesting, the solution not easy to see.

Same Author as:
Draco Malfoy, It's Your Lucky Day

The Professor

Title: The Professor
Author: Datura_Snape
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape, Dumbledore, McGonagall
Warning: PG-13, suicidal, mention of het, character  death (Tobias, Eileen, Rosier), Post-war
Length: Novel
Status: Ongoing


Snape's daily struggle with his life after Voldemort's fall. Back at Hogwarts, he is caught up between the students' dissatisfaction, Dumbledore's demands, lawsuits, grief and responsibility.


At AO3

This actually is part of a series, though I only am interested in "The Professor", not in the prequel. Snape's struggle after the war is often let out of fanfictions as Rowling revealed essential details quite late and even then it's up to a lot of speculation. This author managed to make his suffering quite real. While it sometimes seems like he's drowning in the issues around him, the writer succeeds to get him further. He changes, gets back to the surface. Step by step, Snape's turning into whom we know: canon!Snape. The development is very interesting to observe.

Forbidden Thoughts

Title: Forbidden Thoughs
Author: Juxian
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Lupin/Snape, Sirius(/Snape), James(/Snape)
Warning: NC-17, slash, non-con
Length: Short
Status: Completed


Lupin accuses Snape of holding a grudge for a "silly schoolboy prank" once too often. Snape decides to show Lupin just how awful the Marauders really were


AO3

Very sad fanfiction. Snape's thought processes are very angsty and real. The end is a bit Stockholm Syndrom-ish but I suppose the only way when one wants to end it on a good note.

Same author as:
Lukewarm
Howdy

The Price of Magic

Title: The Price of Magic
Author: Acid, Sinick
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry
Warning: R, slash, character death (Harry, Snape), post-war, school
Length: Novel
Status: Completed

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.

At AO3

A beautiful, mysterious and sophisticated post-war story. There's a lot going on "beneath the surface", paired with the dream world, a touch magic realism in there.
Nonetheless, one of the classics out there which are must-reads.

Sequel:
We've Got a Thing Going On


Same Author as:
Commonplace Magic
The Snidget

By Fair Means or Foul

Title: By Fair Means or Foul
Author: LdDurham
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Lucius/Snape, OFC, Draco
Warning: NC-17, slash, mpreg, marriage, attempted rape
Length: Medium
Status: Completed



Someone wants Professor Snape as his own, but so does every other wizard loving wizard out there! Let the schemes commence as he becomes the target of many, MANY courtship offers.



At SH

I love this Lucius/Snape story. Just do. It's not philosophical, doesn't depict PTSD or any other problematic themes. It's just... nice to read it. It's not even written in a serious, sophisticated style. Yet it's nice^^ simple in its way, but nice.
Author also wrote Indago which I once tried to read but kind of didn't like.

Everybody's Fool

Title: Everybody's Fool
Author: Cluegirl
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters Snape/Harry, mention of Harry/others (Draco, Susan..), mention of Draco/Blaise
Warning: R, slash, mention of threesome (Harry/Ron/Hermione)
Length: Novel
Status: Completed



Harry Potter: Bruised veteran of too many heartbreaks; cynical, jaded drunkard; Wardwright, war hero, recluse, and part time matchmaker. Next target -- Severus Snape, who has a lot to learn about love.



At SH


You just have to embrace virgin!Snape with awkward, social-inadept Harry. Both learn from each other and thrown into a closed environment - work - , that means clashing.


Same Author as:
Can't Take the Sky
Pet

1:1

Title: 1:1
Author: ThreeSidedOrchid
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry
Warning: PG-13, mention of slash, post-war
Length: Short
Status: Completed


"You just suddenly decided to invite a man you hated -- hated," he emphasizes when Potter opens his mouth to argue, "into your home?" 

They're holding each other's gaze, so Severus has a clear view of the uncertainty, the hesitancy that passes over Potter's features before he looks away, closing his eyes as if trying to keep Severus out.

"You remind me of the war," he continues at last.

"Most people would wish not to be."

"Most people's lives weren't dictated by it."


1:1

Post-war story for those who love them. Not angsty, not especially witty. Just post-war.

Dance Partners

Title: Dance Partners
Author: DementorDelta
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry
Warning: R, slash, amnesia, post-war
Length: Short
Status: Completed


Harry wakes up in the Infirmary, but why is Professor Snape the one acting so odd?


Dance Partners


Has been some time since I read this story - couldn't resist putting it up, though.
I like DementorDelta. Not all her stories are my cup of tea, but many. One of the authors you must know. Just like... Shakespeare. Or Poe. No matter whether you like them or not, they're classics, for god's sake XD

Scars

Title: Scars
Author: Isis
Fandom: Harry Potter
Warning: NC-17, slash
Length: Short
Status: Completed


Harry and Remus become closer through shared concern over Sirius, who refuses to transform back from his animagus dog form.

Scars


Scars was the first Remus/Harry FF I ever read. Not my usual couple but Isis managed to really sell it to me.  But it's not the pairing that stands out most: it's Sirius' characterization. Why stay a dog? Well, it's much simpler to deal with stress in animal form. But is it healthy?