(HP) To Make an End
Title: To Make an End
Fandom Harry Potter
Rating: R, just to be safe.
Character(s): Severus Snape, Petunia Dursley, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter, Dudley Dursley, and a slew of other canon character cameos.
Warning(s): Bits of foul language, kind-of-sort-of character deaths, and AU like whoa.
Author's Note: This story was written for natasnape, with the prompt: Dumbledore doesn't send a letter with baby Harry, he sends Snape. The original story was promised at 500 to 1,000 words, but it, um, grew. And became very odd. Many, many thanks to natasnape for the wonderful prompt and for her patience-this was totally supposed to be done six or seven months ago. My undying gratitude goes to princessteradia for beta reading and providing much-needed encouragement when I was freaking out, to annieTalbot for her support, advice, and alpha-reading, to Christev for alpha reading and being my sounding board when I was frustrated, to verus_janus for Brit-picking and listening to me grumble about writer's block, to pyjamapants for calming my frustration and donating a line of Lucius dialogue, and to everyone else who had to listen to me wibble about this fic for the last seven months. I <3 you all.
Disclaimer: I don't own the source material, obviously. Bits of dialogue have been borrowed directly from HP: PS/SS. No copyright infringement is intended. *hugs the lawyers and runs away*
Summary: At first she didn't quite believe her eyes. Severus Snape here, on her doorstep, was so far outside the realm of anything she'd ever believed possible that she couldn't fully comprehend what she was seeing for a few seconds.
This has been posted in three parts due to length.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Fandom Harry Potter
Rating: R, just to be safe.
Character(s): Severus Snape, Petunia Dursley, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter, Dudley Dursley, and a slew of other canon character cameos.
Warning(s): Bits of foul language, kind-of-sort-of character deaths, and AU like whoa.
Author's Note: This story was written for natasnape, with the prompt: Dumbledore doesn't send a letter with baby Harry, he sends Snape. The original story was promised at 500 to 1,000 words, but it, um, grew. And became very odd. Many, many thanks to natasnape for the wonderful prompt and for her patience-this was totally supposed to be done six or seven months ago. My undying gratitude goes to princessteradia for beta reading and providing much-needed encouragement when I was freaking out, to annieTalbot for her support, advice, and alpha-reading, to Christev for alpha reading and being my sounding board when I was frustrated, to verus_janus for Brit-picking and listening to me grumble about writer's block, to pyjamapants for calming my frustration and donating a line of Lucius dialogue, and to everyone else who had to listen to me wibble about this fic for the last seven months. I <3 you all.
Disclaimer: I don't own the source material, obviously. Bits of dialogue have been borrowed directly from HP: PS/SS. No copyright infringement is intended. *hugs the lawyers and runs away*
Summary: At first she didn't quite believe her eyes. Severus Snape here, on her doorstep, was so far outside the realm of anything she'd ever believed possible that she couldn't fully comprehend what she was seeing for a few seconds.
This has been posted in three parts due to length.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three