Stories by corvusdraconis

A collection of drabbles and shorty short (well, Corvus-short) stories involving the adventures, misadventures, and shenanigans of the Triumvirate (Tobias, Sanguini, and Rada) and their pursual of the witch, Hermione Granger. This will be a bunny-bin in progress. (M for safety)

SSHG, A gargoyle pup follows Severus around school, protecting him from shenanigans, but when it's hurt protecting him from his own stupidity, he has an epiphany as to his obsession with Lily Evans. (COMPLETE) #dinosaursinamuseum

SRTHG, When Hermione wakes up thinking she's still in the war, she finds herself in a place she can't even remember. (COMPLETE) M for adult themes and potentially triggering situations

Dettlaff van der Eretein/HG, Dettlaff van der Eretein/SSHG, AU (obviously), Higher vampire Dettlaff van der Eretein has lived a long time, but his distrust of humans remains. The wound that was Rhena. It isn't until he has to bring his oldest friend, Regis to the enigmatic healer, Hermione Granger, that things change. #sangAU #XoverWitcher

These are the team stories from team MYSTIC on the Potions and Parchment Ominous October event for 2025. The originals and the art that goes with some of them are there. This is an ongoing collection until the first weekend in November. The index will be updated at the end. M for safety as all stories are different with assorted pairings.

This will be a collection of story submissions for the 2025 Ominous October Event. It will be ongoing until the end of October. M for safety. Pairings will vary from story to story SSHG or SRTHG

The ministry is trying to find a way to destroy a possessed house that kills every visitor on its premises—its most recent victims are the Gringott's Lead Cursebreaker and Head Auror. Round Robin Teamwork story written by CorvusDraconis, xoxkharisma, and Superdimples for Ominous October 2025 (COMPLETE)

SRTHG, AU, Tobias goes to find the perfect ring for the one he intends to propose to, but when he meets the geomancer who created the piece to his specifications, he realises two things. One, his body begins to show the signs of the Obsession, but the second is even more startling because Geomancer Granger is blind. (M) for safety

SSHG, AU, Hagrid's refugees end up in the tending of one Hermione Granger, only he wants them back, and he doesn't care what he has to do to get them. (COMPLETE)

SRTHG, Hermione returns from study abroad to find a certain ambassador waiting for her across a crowded ballroom. (COMPLETE)

This is a collection of stories/prompts/drabbles for Ominous October 2023 from the Potions and Parchment Discord. Most of these are SSHG, but every so often SSSHG. I'm on team vampire, so all of these will involve vampires in some way. M for safety. This is horror month, afterall.

SSHG, SSSHG, AU, Probably crack, Collection of short stories and drabbles that aren't long enough for me to overcome my supreme laziness to publish as a separate story. This will be ongoing and random with no rhyme or reason.

Repository of flash fiction written for the event 31 Days of Flash Fiction. M for safety.

This is a collection of stories and drabbles for the Ominous October 2024 event (Team:Vampire). It will be SSHG, or SSSHG. Work in progress until the end of October. (M) for safety and vampire violence

#31DaysofSSHGFlashFiction2024, SSHG, SSSHG, This is the repository of the flash fiction written for the Potions and Parchment 2024 Flash Fiction July event. All chapters are stand-alone quickies due to the nature of the event itself. M for safety.

Tri/HG, AU, Hermione Granger is a rare individual who can fill in the void left behind when a member of a psychic bond passes, so they can heal with less stress. The problem is, there are more that need her than she has time, and she is only one person. (COMPLETE)

Triumvirate Short, Hermione longs for what she believes she can never have because they cannot be whole without him, and he cannot be whole without Lily.

TRI/HG, AU, Molly was casting runes for perfect matches in Grimmauld, but neither Hermione nor Severus are interested in her rot. However, just one accidental touch makes them very interested in each other. A cursed artefact wielded by Ron makes everything go to the mustelids. (COMPLETE)

Triumvirate/HG, AU, Hermione is stuck in a dead-end job she hates but meets three "prisoners" that change her life even while they are in chains. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Severus wakes on top of a pile of the dead victims of the Dark Lord, and he finds the barely alive Hermione Granger. They escape together as the Fiendfyre comes roaring down, and he makes it his goal to nurse the injured Granger back to health. What he didn't expect was to actually care. (COMPLETE)

AU, SHG, Hermione found comfort after the war in a person she did not expect. Her "friends" do not agree with her choices and have a plan to show her the error of her ways. P&P Prompt. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, OC/HG, AU, When Ron and Harry attack Snape so Hermione has no one to "help" but them, she steps in the way, and magic has its own ideas.

Triumvirate/HG, AU, Hermione sequesters herself away after the war because dreams of a different life leave her wanting for more than the Wizarding World can give. (COMPLETE)

[Dr Strange/Hermione Granger] [SSHG] Life has changed significantly for Hermione since an accident with some potion ingredients Neville brought to her. Unfortunately, that resulted in her being left alone at the Muggle hospital with a brain tumour. (COMPLETE)

AU, Triumvirate/HG, Hermione discovers the risks of singing Latin in the shower. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, Mistakes were made, but none hurt as much as the most recent. Severus pushes Hermione away to spare her from the dragon curse. (Evil Author's Day)

AU, Triumvirate/HG, In a world where Bellatrix's tender mercies gave Hermione Granger an awakening to an older power, she finds that her fate is tied to three powerful men from a time long past and buried. EVIL AUTHOR'S DAY!

SSHG, AU She wasn't like others. She never was, so how did Severus even have a chance with someone like her? (COMPLETE)

SSSHG, AU, Tobias must give Severus "the talk," and no one is happy about it. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, Snape kicks Hermione out of his laboratory and his life just before Christmas, and Hermione disappears. For the 2024 SSHG Holiday Prompt Fest (COMPLETE)

SSHG, Severus Snape does not like Christmas. This is especially true when he finally confessed his feelings to a witch, and she left him the very next day. (COMPLETE) Written for 2024 SSHG Holiday Prompt Fest

SSHG, The Ministry offers a great reward to anyone who can acquire a certain plant that can only be harvested during the Winter Solstice. But that same plant is also the only thing that can cure Lucius Malfoy of a terrible wasting disease stemming from his old Mark. (COMPLETE) Written for 2024 SSHG Holiday Prompt Fest

SSSHG, The Weasley twins enchant some mistletoe to follow Hermione around. Did they know that mistletoe is called the vampire plant? Well, now they do. (COMPLETE) Written for SSHG Holiday Promptfest 2024

SSHG, Crookshanks is up to something. But is he really, or is he just being a typical cat? (COMPLETE) Written for SSHG Holiday Prompt Fest 2024

SSHG/TSHG, SSSHG, RSSSHG,AU, Lily wants "Sev" to help her survive the war. (COMPLETE)

Hermione/Poseidon (but it's not what you think!), AU, It wasn't easy being a god. There were expectations. After Odysseus defeated him using his own trident, the God of the Seas was bleeding out into the ocean of his own domain. It was a world where ruthlessness was mercy—where he himself had been a great and avid believer. He did not expect compassion. Least of all from a mortal.

TSHG/SSHG (It's complicated), When his son is an utter dunderhead and can't seem to see a good thing even if it bit him in the face, Tobias takes Hermione into his embrace after Eileen dies a natural death. (M for dark themes) Complete

SSHG, Hermione wasn't born like a normal person, but then neither was Severus. Hermione's father has been looking for her for a very, very long time, and he's not known for his pity or mercy. (COMPLETE)

SSSHG, Minerva McGonagall steps away from Hogwarts and a life, while not perfect, was a life well-lived. RIP Maggie Smith 09272024. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, In an ancient world, Tobias/Severus finds peace at the Temple of Poseidon. (COMPLETE) M for violence.

SSSHG, AU, Hermione meets a subservient pale man in the rainforest and decides to adopt him (COMPLETE)

SSSHG, After the war, Hermione finds that some of her friends have resorted extreme measures to save their families. (M) for safety. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, SSSHG, AU Sometimes destiny is set in motion long before Hermione Granger catches on. (COMPLETE) (M) for mature themes

SSHG, AU, Ronald uses ancient magic to win the war at the cost he was all too willing to pay. Just a soul. Hermione's soul. For the greater good. She was dying anyway. (M) for safety

SSSHG, Hermione has gone on with her life while her old friends seem to be stuck in celebration, never moving on from what she has left behind her. (COMPLETE) M for safety

SHG/SSSHG, Sanguini has a confession to make, but all that suaveness he normally has fallen flat in the face of her. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Severus had but one dream as a child and a teen, but when he finally tasted the truth, it was far more bitter than sweet. harpy!hermione (COMPLETE)

SHG, Sanguini rescues Granger from the Malfoys when the Dumbling Duo fail. Years later, they find themselves making a life together as Hermione attempts to decide what is more important: a finite life with infinite meaning everywhere or an immortal life with the one she loves, but where meaning must be fought for in every passing century. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Born in the volcanic lake of a stratovolcano, Hermione the Volcanic Nightmare pup explores her new world with curiosity. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, SSSHG, The man that was Severus Snape was just a cover, but the man who became him had his own secrets and his own private curse that he never thought could be appeased. (Complete) (M for some graphic violence)

SSHG, SSSHG, AU, Often Crack, Collection of drabbles and shorts that are often just as random as Corvus' brain. This archived started Spring Daylight Savings 2024 (M) for safety, but not all of them will be.

SSHG, AU, The Marauders have been tormenting the students of Hogwarts for years, but when a prank goes to the extreme, it doesn't hurt Snivellus. Instead, it takes out his friend, Hermione. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Severus has to take Hermione home to meet his family. He can only hope that she doesn't go fleeing into the hills. (COMPLETE) M for violence.

SHG, Severus pushed her away and pushed her away, and finally, Hermione was done being pushed away. (COMPLETE) M for vampire violence.

SSHG, AU, It doesn't end well for Hermione Granger, but can she recover? (COMPLETE)

AU, R/S/HG, SSLE, Choices brought him to this place, and those choices had been dead wrong. (Would be SSHG, but this is Evil Author's Day, so…) It's the 15th in Tokyo, so that's the 15th enough to me! (Completely unfinished because EAD) Lily bashing inside. Beware.

SSSHG, AU, Hermione and Ron were meant. That's what everyone believed, but when Harry did his best to ensure his best mate got the girl, things did not go quite as he had imagined. (COMPLETE)

AU, Hellhound pup Hermione is weaned from her parents and goes exploring as is her lot in life, looking for the one that will be her bondmate for life. She never expected to fall into an adventure and conspiracy, but maybe it came with being born into a "nice hellhound family." (complete)

SSSHG, AU, Undrabble, Severus was born to vampire parents, but before he could mature enough to realise what was most important, something insidious turns his head. Hermione is given a choice that will change her life forever. (Something is draining Hermione's life force, and she is Turned to save her life) M for safety. (COMPLETE)

S/SSHG, AU, Ron believes they are meant, so why is she kissing Snape? (COMPLETE) M for Graphic Violence

SSHG, AU, Ron wants a happy Christmas, and he's bloody tired of waiting. (M for M(well not so main)CD) (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] AU: Neville's nervous twitch causes a really severe potions explosion that hits his lab partner, Hermione Granger. Her life is drastically changed forever. [Completely Crack] (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] Sirius Black spent years in Azkaban for a crime he didn't commit, but when he commits another crime against Hermione, no one was there to see it. Unfortunately, many people would rather trust Sirius than Severus, and Sirius is taking full advantage of this. [AU] COMPLETE

SSHG, AU, Sirius Black hates Severus Snape. When an ugly confrontation occurs between them at Grimmauld Place, Sirius throws an old Black family curse at him, only to have Hermione Granger attempt to stop him. She's hit head-on, and everything changes— starting with her. (NC/Crack) COMPLETE

[S/SSHG] In her third year, when Hermione throws herself in front of Harry to protect him from the Dementors something strange happens. She awakens to a legacy she had no idea she even had, and it turns the entire school upside-down— and beyond. Crackfic. AU. EWE. NC. (all that jazz). Rating changed to M for language since some people seem to think teens don't curse. (COMPLETE)

AU, SSHG, Sometimes your "friends" are far more dangerous than your enemies. At least you expect your enemy to shank you in the dark. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Thanks to some vindictive "accidental" magic, Severus Snape gains something wholly unintended. (COMPLETE)

AU, S/SSHG, Hermione exchanges her life as she knows it to give Harry Potter a second chance to save the Wizarding World (COMPLETE)

AU, SSHG, Severus has made many choices in life. Some good, some terrible. But when he tears down Hermione for calling Lily selfish, that warm spot he thought was all Lily Evans suddenly disappears. Now, Sirius says he wants to reward his defence of Lily by showing him where he and his mates go some nights. What will he choose?

SSHG, AU, Hermione moved away from most of magical Britain, but not for the reason most people thought. (Complete)

SSHG, AU, Ron should just learn to not touch what isn't his. (COMPLETE) Written for 31 Days of SSHG Flash Fiction 2023

SSHG, AU, Harry and Ron confront Snape to rescue Hermione from his dastardly clutches, but not all is what it seems. (COMPLETE) WRitten for 31 Days of SSHG Flash Fiction 2023

SSHG, AU, Harry decides it's time to go and see Hermione and figure out why she won't marry Ron. (COMPLETE) Written for 31 Days of SSHG Flash Fiction 2023

SSHG, AU, He'd just bled out. Bled out of Wizarding World and into a new life without anyone to bother him. (COMPLETE) Written for 31 Days of SSHG Flash Fiction

SSHG, AU, Mistakes were made, and Severus had to admit that he'd really stuck his foot into it this time. (COMPLETE) Written for the SSHG Flash Fiction 2023

SSHG, AU, Ron made sure the new marriage law went through because all it would take was the perfect gift and the witch would be married to him! (COMPLETE) Written for 31 Days of SSHG Flash Fiction

SSHG, AU, Fate had always made Snape its fool. Just like love. Will he make the choice his heart wants or let it slip through his fingers? (COMPLETE) Written for 31 Days of SSHG Flash Fiction 2023

SSHG, AU Harry thought Snape was dead. Well, he was, but he got better. (COMPLETE) Written for the 31 Days of Flash Fiction 2023

SSHG: Sometimes prejudices come to bite you on the arse. Literally. (COMPLETE) Written for 31 Days of Flash Fiction 2023

SSHG: Ron needs to get married, and it's about time that Hermione stepped up to her responsibilities. (COMPLETE) Written for the Flash Fiction Fest 2023

SSHG, The war had ended only there were some who hadn't gotten the memo. Written for 31 Days of Flash Fiction 2023 (COMPLETE)

Raka/SSHG, Bellatrix's insanity had a purpose for the Dark Lord, but what he could not have predicted was the lengths his favourite fanatic would go to in order to secure his success and thus, his eventual demise. (M) for Daemonic themes

SSHG, AU, Hermione was always a survivalist. They all thought her a mere Muggle. Unwise to the ways of the wizarding world, yet Hermione's family has always been exceptional. They may not have been "magical" in the usual sense, but they gave their daughter the ultimate gift in survival. (COMPLETE)

S/SSHG, AU, Severus has an inkling that something isn't right, but he's felt like that all his life. (COMPLETE) (M) for themes

AU: [HG/SS] Hermione disappeared from a hospital after a massive freak storm hit the UK. In an altered past, Lord Voldemort releases both Death Eaters and monsters en masse to take out Muggles and magical alike to further his own purposes, and everything is going exactly to plan— well, until it isn't. (Evil Author's Day)

S/SSHG, AU, Crack As always gifts from Hagrid are always suspect. Gifts delivered by Ron from Hagrid—fifteen thousand times more so. (Complete)

SSHG, Young Hermione had the most unusual babysitter as a young child. He literally followed her home from the art museum during her parents' holiday. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Severus Snape's mum would have him believe his father is the worst kind of monster. She might not have been all wrong. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Hermione was always attracted to the ocean, but sometimes the ocean seemed interested in her. (Complete)

SSHG, AU, Hermione finds a new life far away from Britain while attempting to find a rare plant to help Neville cure his parents. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Ronald Weasley just wanted to marry Hermione Granger. The steps he takes to make it happen digs him into a far deeper hole than he ever expected. Complete

SSHG, AU, Hermione Granger took on an apprenticeship in a far away place in the hopes to learn the secret that would help restore her parents' memories. (COMPLETE)

AU, SSHG, As young dental students, they hadn't always had a steady income, so her parents got her a few things as a baby they had no idea would affect the remainder of her life. (M for triggers)

AU, SSHG, Crack, In a world where Lily lived, life was not perfect for Severus Snape. Hope came with the arrival of Hermione Granger who first became his apprentice, friend, and then so much more. But old friends are not happy with his happiness, and one spell changes everything.

SSHG, AU, Crack (obviously) There should have been a rule book on keeping a Lethifold, but alas, no one ever gave one to Hermione Granger. Severus Snape needs Hermione's help to find something important to him, but they did not part ways amicably.(COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Hermione helps bring an end to the Wizarding War in a non-conventional way which inadvertently makes her a pariah. Living away from others, she tends to those that normally get no help: the Dark creatures that came to her aid. COMPLETE

SSHG, AU, Hermione's peers band together and finally do something on a united front: get rid of Hermione Granger. Only what exactly did they do? (COMPLETE) For the Potions and Parchment SSHG Holiday Gift Exchange. Victim: Dunderheaded Ninny Muggins

[HG/SS] AU: Tom Riddle's diary didn't start with Ginny. In fact, it started with Lucius Malfoy. Taking over his mind, Tom found a sacrifice to use in the Chamber of Secrets to "prepare" the Chamber for his resurrection. He really should have read the fine print when remaking spell required the "kiss of the basilisk."

SSHG,AU: Severus, King of the Goblins, is served an ultimatum by his people to take a queen or they will rebel. Jareth/Severus must find a queen willing to sit beside him on the throne of the Goblin Nation or they will make him wear— glitter. (Crossover Labyrinth/HP) COMPLETE

Sanguini/SS/HG: AU: Hermione finally gets a seeing-eye dog after all the others were afraid of her. (M for reasons) COMPLETE

SSHG, AU, A strange plague has descended upon the Wizarding World that wastes away the body and has people seeing spirits. It's up to Harry and Ron to find Hermione and Severus Snape—the last two people who were working on a cure before something went horribly wrong. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, EWE, After the war, Hermione goes to Australia to restore her parents' memories, gets disowned, attacked by a wild animal while crying in the bush, and comes home with her magic now downright plucky. The solution? Training with Severus Snape. No problem, right? As far as she knows, he just hates the very air she breathes. (M for safety) COMPLETE

SSHG, AU, EWE, Severus Snape never has things easy, and even if he could have something, he has an annoying habit of self-sabotage. What's a headmaster to do when he finds himself falling for Hogwarts' DADA professor (COMPLETE) (M for safety)

SSHG, AU, In a time when Hermione was born long before Harry Potter was even a twinkle in his parents' eyes, she does what she can for her friend. Even if he doesn't truly love her. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, EWE, Severus decides to take a chance on Hermione Granger. Will she accept him as he is or flee like any normal person should? (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, EWE, Almost a decade ago, Severus Snape told Hermione Granger to go solve a problem on her own, casting her out of his life as he hid behind duty. He told himself often it was for the best, but his heart never forgave him. #scratchthatniche2021 (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, The Great Work was done by Nicholas Flamel on purpose, but sometimes fate works its own magic for its own ends. (COMPLETE) #scratchthatniche2021

SSHG, AU, EWE, Probably crack. Hermione meets Severus in the Forbidden Forest, and things do not go as planned— for anyone. (complete) #scratchthatniche2021, Happy Birthday, DeepShadows2

SSHG, AU, EWE, #scratchthatniche2021, Hermione Granger was never a Muggleborn witch, but she wasn't pureblood either. What she was was beyond the scope of most people who just considered her too different to fit in anywhere. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, Crack: When Professor Lockhart thrust a book at Hermione Granger to get her to stop talking and find something inside to occupy her mind, he had no idea what he set in motion and how utterly f*cked he was going to be. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, EWE: Written for the SSHG Scratch that Niche Festival: Hermione is getting frustrated with all the mixed signals (Complete)

SS/HG: Crackfic, AU, etc. etc. Written for the Scratch That Niche Fest 2021. Hermione is left picking up the pieces after the war with the only thing she truly wanted out of reach. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU, probably and most likely crack. Ron and Neville finally apply their minds to come up with the perfect way to take that stupid Malfoy down a peg by messing with his oh-so-perfect patrician good looks. But like most things that are not practised, the pair fail to consider the differences between types of ingredients. Slime is just slime, right? (COMPLETE)

An Ottermione Story: AU: SSHG, One of Weasley Wizarding Wheezes' new projects gets away from the twins in the form of "bloody hell" released from its prison, and it was not happy to be part of their experiment. (COMPLETE)

SSHG/AU: The end of the war was just the beginning of all the drama that would follow Severus Snape after he failed to die like a normal person. (COMPLETE) Gift for SnapeSupercedesSocialization

SSHG, AU: Hermione works with Severus Snape in a potions business, each seeking escape from a world that sees them as heroes. Each finds something they want in the other but refuse to voice it lest it destroy a dream dreamt by fragile, longing hope. (COMPLETE) M for graphic violence and attempted non-consensual activity.

AU/Crack, SSHG, Severus has always kept his Animagus form on the down-low ever since he almost tore Lupin to pieces in self-defence. Every so often though, he just needs to go for a bloody walk and enjoy the night air. That was the way it was supposed to work, anyway. (Complete)

AU/Crack: Neville's potion explosion turns Snape into a hungry Jurassic predator, and the only thing standing between said predator and a Neville-snack is Hermione Granger. (Deutschland 10 may translate this to German)

AU, SSHG, Deep in the DoM, Manfred Morgan has his first child, and like most things born in the depths of the DoM, she's precocious and full of spunk— fated to tip the scales of the war before it even gets started.

AU, SSHG, Amortentia, at last, led her to his embrace, and he meant to push her away. If only his arms didn't do quite the opposite— (COMPLETE)

SSHG: The spell was to prove they were meant. Ron should have read the fine print. COMPLETE

SSHG, AU: He's been with her all her life through the best and worst times, only she never knew it.

SSHG, AU: Lily makes some discoveries about her place in the universe that may have been shrouded in denial. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU. Harry and Ron make a really stupid wish just as someone chucks a wishing stone into his cauldron hoping he will wish for something super embarrassing. They never expected it to work. (M for mature themes/violence)

SSHG, AU: The Ministry put some really strict rules on Snape's inheritance to prevent him from getting his fortune(s) back. Harry is sent to be an unwilling witness to Snape's inability to satisfy their conditions. They say that the best revenge is living well, and Harry may end up having some rather startling revelations to the extent of exactly how stupid the rules really are.

SSHG, AU. Harry believed that Hermione had truly lost her ever-loving mind. Everyone understood, but why couldn't she? Happy Valentine's Day Story. (COMPLETE)

AU: SSHG: In a world where Severus and Hermione grew up together and are in a good place in their relationship, the Marauders and Lily steal Hermione away to "save her" from his alleged Darkness. (COMPLETE)

SSHG, AU: Written for the SSHG Giftfest 2019 on Livejournal for Rivertempest. A curse spawned in selfish lust attacks not only the target of Ronald Weasley's sense of justice but the one he desires. Britain descends into the frozen wastes as magic's imbalance grows greater and greater. Harry Potter wallows in guilt for his betrayal. (COMPLETE)

SSHG and utter crack: Hermione Granger writes Santa for the one thing she really wanted: a puppy. Pity she's dyslexic. (Inspired by the animated short "Dear Satan" that was narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart) (complete) [Warnings: Gore]

SSHG: Severus has some baggage to deal with after sabotaging his latest and most cherished relationship. Pity she had no idea. Pity he can't get his foot out of his mouth long enough to tell her. Written for the SSHG Giftfest 2019 on Livejournal. AU and probably Crack. An Ottermione story. (Complete)

SSHG: Severus Snape receives a unique holiday gift that helps him change his life for the better. (AU) COMPLETE

[HG/SS] AU/Crack: Severus Snape has to deliver the acceptance letter to the Granger home thanks to Minerva being sick with the cat flu. He has no idea how this one event will change his life forever. SSHG/HEA (COMPLETE)

SSHG/AU: Ron comes to "rescue" Hermione from her poor life choices before his mother explodes upon discovering that Hermione had turned down marriage long before she'd forced him to propose in front of Merlin and everyone. It goes about as well as one might expect. (COMPLETE)

SSHG Ronald uses a spell he finds in the library at Grimmauld Place to give himself what Harry's parents had: true love. Maybe he should have read a little more before trying it out. AU

AU/EWE: Severus Snape had no expectations of peace between himself and the golden boys of Gryffindor. Theirs was a cycle of hatred that went on and on with no end in sight. But one day changes all that, and Severus Snape finds someone he can actually care for, and she turns his life upside down, sideways, and diagonal. [HG/SS] M for Safety (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] AU:Crack, Hermione wasn't supposed to get murdered by a troll. She was supposed to spur on Harry Potter and Ron Weasley and become their friend and thus keep them alive through multiple trials. All of Dumbledore's carefully laid out plans tank as Hermione Granger embraces a new life, thanks to none other than Severus Snape.

HG/SS: AU: Possibly Crack (Oh who am I kidding, of course, it's crack): After the end of the war came the waiting, and for Hermione Granger, it was worse than everything that had come before it. (COMPLETE)

[SS/HG] AU/CRACK: Molly Weasley just wanted to give fate a little push because Ronald and Hermione belonged together. Magic did not agree. (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS]When Hermione returns to the Shrieking Shack following Voldemort's demise, Snape's body is gone. Harry stubbornly insists that he's dead and one of his Death Eater mates probably just buried him somewhere, while Ron whines that it's time for her to pay more attention to him since they're going to get married, right? The boys have their own secrets, but Hermione does too. AU

Lily summoned herself a "friend" as a child, innocently enough and unbeknownst to her. Later, she chooses to forget the true nature of her friend, no longer believing in "imaginary friends." When she repudiates her friend in their fifth year, she "gives" him to Dumbledore to make him stop following her around. [HG/SS] AU/CRACK (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] AU: Lily says some things she probably should have reconsidered before yelling them out. She learns too late that maybe one should be very careful about what one wishes for. You never know when magic might be listening. (Probably crack, this is me, after all.)

[HG/SS] AU/Crackfic. Neville created something borderline genius in potions class that changes the very course of history—literally. (COMPLETE)

HG/SS: AU: Hermione Granger disappeared during the Tri-Wizard tournament, and no one knows what became of her. Harry and Ron believe that Snape and Draco had her killed, but what really happened to Hermione? (COMPLETE)

HG/SS, AU, Crackfic: Utter stupidity breeds the coming of the zombie apocalypse. (COMPLETE)

HG/SS, AU Ronald does something dastardly after the war that does not bring Hermione back to him. (COMPLETE)

AU: HG/SS, Hermione made a choice at the end of the war that neither of her friends approved of. They shunned her for her choices until they needed her help to counter a fertility curse on all those born of Weasley blood. (COMPLETE)

AU, Crackfic: HG/SS: Hermione has come to a crossroads and finds she has a choice to make. M for brief, wince-worthy sentence. (COMPLETE)

AU, HG/SS: Severus Snape stumbles into a new beverage place in Diagon Alley and finds none other than Hermione Granger serving drinks instead of doing-well, something more magical? Now he is driven to find out why the brilliant, upcoming witch had been forced into such a fate. But why does he even care?

HG/SS: AO, Crackfic: Severus was doomed the moment they touched. One touch held all the intimacy he had craved all his life. He was damned from then on. [Complete]

[HG/SS] Hagrid bred some of his 'armless animals together to "help" the Potters defend themselves from the Dark Lord. It does not end has he hoped. EWE, AU, Not Canon, Crack [COMPLETE]

[HG/SS] Hermione was willing to give her life to save Severus Snape at the end of the Wizarding war. She had no idea that magic would take her up on it. AU/EWE/Crack/etc. (COMPLETE) Winner of the Harry Potter Fanfiction Collective's Christmas Cracker Award.

[HG/SS] Severus is bullied on the Hogwarts Express his very first year, and a blast of accidental magic helps him escape his tormentors- but not in the way he expects. [AU/AO/EWE/Not canon in the slightest/probably totally crack too] (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] AU: In a world where Severus got bitten by Lupin in the Shrieking Shack incident, Snape wakes up after a full moon in a place he doesn't recognise only to find out that he's completely starkers and he's apparently in the spare room of one Hermione Granger. What the heck is going on? And why is his face covered in cream cheese frosting? [COMPLETE] Gift for thepurplewombat

[HG/SS] Halloween is coming to Hogwarts, and George has prepped the perfect tricks for the holiday for all the students. When the tricks seem to have gone pear-shaped, the mystery of a series of strange transformations seems to fall in George's lap. But was it really George? If so, why? If not, then who did? AU, EWE, Post-War, Complete and Utter Crack [COMPLETE]

[Loki/Hermione] Loki and Hermione were doing well until Loki saw something that made him think their relationship was less than he thought it was. Like a proper God of Mischief, he takes it out on everything around him. Meanwhile, others help Hermione piece her life back together— without that magic-flinging idiot god of Åsgard. AU (Obviously) M for language

[HG/SS] AU, EWE, NC: In a world where Harry and Ron made the decision to escape Malfoy Manor and leave Hermione to Bellatrix Lestrange's mercy, Severus Snape gave her a life and death decision on the doorstep of death. They escaped Britain together after the war, but now Harry Potter has a problem he needs her for because he's tried everything else. COMPLETE

[HG/SS] (NC/AU) Hermione and Severus become the victims of a vengeful Dark spell that turns them into the perfect agents to end the war that neither of the two main powers knows about. (COMPLETE)

(An Ottermione/Crackfic story!) Voldemort botched his attempt at immortality when he tried to make his first Horcrux and attempted to murder someone and ended up defeating himself. Idiot. Now, no one likes a Slytherin, and the world just seems… mad. (AU) (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] [AU] The world hasn't been right since Albus Dumbledore somehow survived the cursed ring Horcrux. Now Dumbledore has forced Severus between a rock and a hard place. Can he kill the only woman who has ever truly loved him, or will he refuse and die himself? (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] When Harry and Ron try to "prank" Draco Malfoy for the audacity of being Draco Malfoy, Hermione steps in to stop him, but the curse takes her full on. Dumbledore makes a choice for her to preserve the brains of the Golden Trio and thus keep Harry Potter alive. [EWE, NC, AU] M for safety. [COMPLETE]

[HG/SS] AU ("Obviously" in Snape's voice) Hermione wakes to find herself in a place she's never been before. Slowly she starts to realise she's definitely not in Britain anymore. And just what the hell is the bloody Weyland-Yutani Corporation? M for gore. (COMPLETE)

[Kagome/Sesshoumaru] AU: Inuyasha makes a wish to be with his true love, and a selfish wish sets into motion the beginning of the end, and revives lost acts not seen in many years... and why does Kirara look so smug?

[HG/SS] AU: When Hermione was born, her parents knew she was special, but they didn't realise how special until she crafted her own pair of wings and glued them onto her back— and they worked. Her sisters, Lily and Petunia, think their sister is a freak, and they try to break her, starting with her wings. NC/EWE/Completely right out of my arse [COMPLETE]

[HG/SS] AU/EWE: When life on land becomes unbearable, Hermione finds a new life and love in the watery depths beside Shell Cottage. [COMPLETE]

[Kagome/Sesshōmaru] Violence was normal in Kagome's life until one day, the final betrayal was the final nail in a coffin that drove Kagome from the one she thought she could trust into the one she had no idea she could. [AU (obviously)] COMPLETE

[HG/SS] AU/EWE/NC Hermione Granger ended the last Wizarding War and became a bit of a pariah. Now, seven years after the end of the war, the Ministry demands the Marriage Law to bolster the numbers of magicals in Britain. She has just over a year to find someone to marry or go to Azkaban, but Hogwarts has a crisis. Help Hogwarts or herself. Now what? [COMPLETE]

[HG/SS] Snape has always been alone and doesn't expect that to change. Life, however, has other plans. AU/NC/EWE [COMPLETE] leymaster!Hermione, Hermione has a plan until someone Oblivates it

[HG/SS] Underestimated ever since she was a child, no one believed in Hermione Granger. The magical world was no different until she stood up for herself. [NC/AU/EWE] COMPLETE

[HG/SS] (Crackfic) One day, Ron and Harry decide they are tired of Snape picking on everyone that isn't in Slytherin house and make plans to expose that stupid dungeon bat for what he truly is: EVIL! Things do not end as they had hoped. And where the hell is Hermione! AU/EWE/NC (not even close) [COMPLETE]

[HG/SS] Bellatrix Lestrange does the unspeakable to Hermione Granger at Malfoy Manor that causes her friends to leave her to pursue Voldemort without her. She ends up alone, living in a marsh with nothing but a herd of horses to keep her company. But all is not what it seems. EWE/NC/AU (COMPLETE)

[HG/Loki] Hermione did not start out as a Muggleborn in the Wizarding World. Her past as the one known as Lady Gudrun spanned lifetimes on Miðgarðr's count of time while she lived in Jotunheimr with her parents. [COMPLETE]

[HG/SS] There was a reason Madam Pince zealously kept the library's restricted section off limits and most definitely closed at night, but everyone assumed it was because she was a witch who preferred books to people. The truth was far, far stranger. AU COMPLETE

[HG/SS]: Bellatrix Lestrange has the ultimate punishment for Mudblood Hermione Granger that will teach her once and for all exactly what she is. Unfortunately, Bella learns that miscalculation is the mother of revenge-or destruction. [M] for safety. Not-Canon. AU. Halloween Story. (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] Ron and Ginny decide Hermione is monopolising Harry's time during the Triwizard Tournament, so they put their heads together with a little surprise Tom Riddle shared with Ginny back when she had his diary. EWE, NC [COMPLETE]

[HG/SS] Lily makes an impulsive wish, but does it make things better... or worse? You need to be careful what you wish for. It's a magical world, after all. AU. Not-Canon. Probably Crack. Like all my stories.

[HG/SS] Hermione finds herself in Azkaban after the war only to find it may not be as bad as she thought. (COMPLETE)

[HG/SS] Crackfic. For as long as she'd been alive, Hermione was sure she had the worst luck ever. AU

[Hermione/Loki] Loki has been kicked out of Ásgarðr for bad behaviour. Odin thinks his frost giant heritage is to blame. But is it really?[AU/NC/EWE] (Not even trying for canon, sorry) COMPLETE

[HG/SS] AU/AO: In this alternate timeline, Albus Dumbledore uses old research that he and Grindelwald came up with to craft the ultimate weapon to collect power and rid himself of enemies. His first two experiments failed him. His third did not—but what happens when it comes time to pay the piper? Who will rise, and who will fall? Not canon. NOPE! M to be safe. COMPLETE

AU: Who is Hermione? No one knows her real name or where she came from. Her handler has always been Severus Snape, who has trained her since she was a small child to be the perfect agent to keep Harry Potter alive despite all the things and people working against him. The greatest mystery of all, however, is one even Hermione doesn't know: her own past. [Eventual H/Loki]

Summary: [HG/SS] AU/NC Once upon a time, Bellatrix Lestrange created a monstrous beast to do her bidding. However, it doesn't work out quite the way she planned. The beast escapes the hands of one master only to be enslaved by another— one that no one believed would ever do such a thing. (COMPLETE)

[Summary] [AU/Crossover] Hermione has been used and abused for much of her life, starting with her parents disowning her the moment they found out she was a witch. Things culminate by her third year when Sybill Trelawney spouts a new prophecy during Divination Class: beware the Brightest, the young Goddess of Vengeance. [Hermione/Loki]

[HG/SS] Things are disappearing everywhere around Hogwarts and no one seems to know why or how. No one is safe—not even Albus Dumbledore. What could it be, and what will this mean for the Wizarding War? NC/EWE/AU

[Hermione/Loki] After the war, Hermione picks up her old time-turner from Dumbledore's office. There's a note attached, with a last request from the late headmaster. However, the interference of another party causes things to go pear-shaped. M for delicate sensibilities.

[HG/SS] Back in the time of the Marauders, Sirius Black did something unspeakable when he lured Severus Snape to his death at the Shrieking Shack. Yet, things did not go as planned. Severus Snape disappeared, and Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley never needed Hermione Granger. As inheritors to the Marauder's Legacy, they resolve to make her life hell for fun. M for safety. AU/EWE/NC

Summary: [HG/Loki] Dystopian What-if? Some would say the Aether was never meant for mortals or gods, having existed long before either, but what if it was simply waiting for the right vessel—someone broken just enough, betrayed just enough, to accept the bond that would make both of them whole again. [EWE, Non-Canon, AU/AO]

[HG/SS] The Come and Go Room throws its hand into the fate of war veteran Hermione Granger and 7th year Severus Snape, who is looking for a safe, Marauder-free haven. AU/AO, EWE (Not even remotely canon)

[HG/SS] Birthday story for Story-Please. Someone puts a curse on Hogwarts for Halloween, turning them all into monsters.

[HG/Loki] AU: Two lonely souls trying to escape their circumstances meet on a lonely beach and find understanding. (Like most of my stories I can't choose categories, so let's go with romance/comedy and adventure? sure. Works for me.)

[HG/SS] AU/Crackfic: One morning, Severus Snape wakes up with a furry visitor snuggled under the quilt with him. As he pulls back the quilt, two glowing eyes lock with his, and everything is turned on its ear. As the rest of his visitor crawls out from under the covers, he realises he has a problem. There is a Nundu cub in his bed, and for some reason, she's bound to him.

AU/AO: [HG/SS] What-if Story. Hermione Granger gets erased due to a badly phrased, vague, and bitter wish. She is Hermione Granger no more. Now, thanks to Ron, she is Hermione Ankaa Black, sister of Sirius & Regulus Black, & member of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. Now what is she going to do? Multiple pairings in later chapters, and JP starts out as a rampaging jerk.

[HG/SS] Something haunts the Shrieking Shack, and it isn't Remus Lupin. Gaping holes in Hermione's memories signal a hunt for the ultimate reason of why she can't remember such a big chunk of her past. [AU] Rated M for delicate sensibilities.

[HG/SS] Hermione was always different. One day different came crashing into her mother's garden in a tangle of wings, claws, and teeth. Did she run? Yes— to the cupboard to get bandages and ointment. Little did she know that this one event would set the course of her entire life.

AU: Sirius Black did something terrible in his fifth year at Hogwarts, and it all had to do with Severus Snape. He made sure Snape met transformed Moony that night in the shack, but it did not end the way he expected. Now, having been bitten by Nagini, Snape realises that he's undergone some changes... again. He also bit the witch trying to save his life. Now what? [HG/SS]

[Summary] Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore had a plan that spanned decades. Becoming the Masters of Death was their mutual goal. Now, it was finally in their grasp—but maybe they should have read the fine print first. (AU/Crackfic/something about cheese) Gift fic for Lokilette

[HG/SS] Hermione is sick... very sick, and she is not going down alone. (An Ottermione Story) AU/EWE

[RL/HG] Rodolphus was tortured and transformed at a very early age for something the Lestranges could not abide: having feelings for a mere Muggle. They subjugated him, bound him in wedlock to a madwoman that he despised, murdered his Muggle love, and turned him into a Muggle-hating proper Lestrange. It did not end the way they had hoped. AU/EWE

I take the prompts from QLFC Rounds and make them into stories. The catch? I use ALL of them at once. This should be interesting. Short-Stories/One-Shots. Some will be humourous. Some will be tear-jerkers.

[HG/SS] Emotion has always been the bane of Snape's life. Emotion is what got him into trouble time and time again. Emotion made his mouth run. This time, emotion caused him to run off at the mouth to the one person who had always been able to forgive… until now. (A phoenix-centric story) One-shot, EWE

[HG/SS] At the conclusion of the Second War, Harry gives Hermione one last task to do. The task is simple: hide the Hallows so no one, not even he, can find them.What will Hermione do with the Deathly Hallows? Can she resist the temptation of the power over Death? (AU/EWE) RIP Alan Rickman

[HG/SS] Once upon a time there were two phoenixes, but they did not start that way. Sometimes Fate has other plans for you, and the path is not always linear. (AU) Crackfic! EWE

Finals Round for Season III of the QLFC. Last story of the season. [Severus/Narcissa] [HG/VK]: (AU) Severus Snape survived the Second Wizarding War, but his friend Lucius Malfoy did not. Lucius made him promise to take care of his family, but can either Severus or Narcissa move on? Or do they need a push?

This is a collection of stories written for the Hogwarts Houses Forums Quidditch Pitch Challenges (which actually have nothing to do with quidditch). It starts with Ottermione, range in length, probably involve HG/SS, and are as random as my head. You have been warned. This is no longer updated, as I have left the group.

Argus Filch was a man people seldom thought about unless they serving detention under him or avoiding him in the corridors after curfew. The Second Wizarding War had come and gone, and things have changed in Hogwarts and the Wizarding World. Argus Filch, however, resists change, but how long can a man resist the tide?

(Alternate Twist Story) Peter Pettigrew has always been underestimated, and that has served him well. But, now, Peter feels like he wants to be something more, so he tells the Dark Lord the location of the Potters. Surely, he will be feared and respected now! (Gift for Sehanine)

[HG/SS] Severus has always been the local Dungeon Bat. That was his moniker for as long as his hair has been greasy and his best-known personality trait was being a git. What he didn't know was that he wasn't alone. EWE.

Hermione Granger just needs the answer to one question, and she isn't going to get it staring into a teacup or a crystal ball. Arithmancy is her answer—now if she could just think of the right thing to get an answer. One-Shot. Gift-fic for Story Please

[HG/SS] AU: A chain of events went wrong, starting with the moment Severus Snape was left to die alone in the Shrieking Shack. Only now, a decade after the end of the Wizarding War, the price of betrayal becomes far more evident.

[HG/SS] Thanks to some trick of fate that could have only come from Neville Longbottom, Ottermione finds herself propelled back in time just in right moment to prevent Severus Snape from committing the one act he had spent his lifetime atoning for.

Halloween Short [HG/SS] Hermione Granger and Severus Snape became friends after the war. Severus ends up giving Hermione relationship advice on how to get the one she loves to realise she loves him. Things do not end the way he expected.

[HG/SS] Hermione Granger saves Professor Snape from being brained by a flying stone egg that Myrtle flung at him. That would have been fine on its own, had it not been a dormant basilisk egg pillaged from the Chamber of Secrets.

[HG/SS]: Neville cultures a rare plant sacred to the centaur in the hopes of curing his parents so his children can get to know their grandparents. He brings it to Hermione to analyze in the hopes he can use it to heal their condition. Things do not go as planned.

[HG/SS] Severus, surviving Nagini's bite only to be paralysed, has only one temper to his sanity - a mysterious female voice who reads to him every day. She seems familiar, but he cannot remember her. When he realises who it is and the price she has paid to attend him for years, can he summon the courage to do what he hasn't been able to do for over seven years? (Ottermione Story)

Years after the end of the Second Wizarding War, Hermione Granger finds a letter that changes everything she thought she knew.

Prompt: Race with Serpentine using pairings I don't like. (Uh.. if you love Ron, probably should go read another story, sorry…) Hermione is waiting at the altar for Ron, but Ron never shows. He had a good reason, but sometimes the choices you make do not lead to the happy ending. Ending hijaacked by Story Please. (Also probably a crack fic)

[HG/SS] Hermione gets into some trouble thanks to one of Hagrid's "harmless" projects. Her husband and the Headmistress are not amused. (Written as a race with another Pride of Portree team member.)

Hermione is trained as Dumbledore's instrument of war by himself, Snape, and McGonagall. His goal? Make it so the war never had to happen, and preserve the life of Harry Potter. Things don't quite work out as planned. Time travel rarely does.

Sometimes fate falls out of the sky. Literally.

[Season 3] Daily Prophet - Round 8 & Round 9 Contest Entry. Prompt: 500 words or less crack!fic Ronald Weasley wakes up from a nightmare that he prays isn't real. Nothing, he thinks, could possibly be worse than being married to Pansy Parkinson. Nothing.

[HG/SS]: QLFC Round 11: Severus Snape has never been good at admissions of emotion. Perhaps, it was having two of the world's greatest Legilimens as masters that did it. Time is running out, however, for him to untie his tongue and stop tripping over his social feet, or the one he cares for will walk away, perhaps never to return.

Entry for the QLFC Round 10 (Season 3) : Forbidden Relationships. WARNING: This fiction prompt HAD TO include a family/related/relative relationship. If this is not your thing (even though this is canon) please do not read this story. [Orion/Walburga]

Quidditch League Fanfiction Contest (Season 3) Round 9 Entry. Prompt: Much Ado About Nothing. [SS/HG] [Draco/Astoria] Draco drags Severus to the wedding dais to be a witness to his second attempt to marry Astoria Greengrass. Based on Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare.

QLFC Round 8 (Finals) : Prompt: Dominique Weasley Fleur Weasley watches her youngest daughter play in the waves near Shell Cottage and couldn't be happier.

AU : Harry Potter had been prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for the power to defeat Voldemort. The demon had laughed at his paltry offer of his broom. Hermione had walked in at just the right time to make things right. He gave her up for power, but the demon sees something else in Hermione and offers her a choice. Dark!Harry [HG/SS] Rated M for a reason.

QLFC Seeker Position Round 8, Prompt: Rose Weasley, Rose spends a quiet sunrise with her mother, pondering how things worked out the way they did.

[HG/SS] AU: Severus Snape survived the Second Wizarding War only to have someone try to curse him to death shortly afterwards. Enter one Hermione Granger to take the curse for him, and now he has a small furry problem following him around. (Ottermione Story)

Entry for QLFC Season 3 Round 7. [HG/SS] Severus has lost many things throughout his life - his humanity being only one victim of many. One person, however, he cannot bear to lose to the ravages of time and a cruel trick of fate that threatens to steal her away.

QLFC Round 6 (Written for Keeper) Severus wakes up to strange dog in his bed and he had no idea where it came from.

AU: Severus had enough serving two Masters during the last war. Now, he just wants to be left alone and keep people at more than arm's length. He refused to change for anyone, but the war had more than changed him. It had left him with a hunger for blood. [HG/SS]

Quidditch League Fanfiction Contest: Season 3, Round 6: Hermione Granger thinks she's going insane. Why else would she be looking through keyholes like they were windows to another reality? That would be completely mental...right?

Quidditch League Fanfiction Competition: Round Five: Lucius 5th Year

Entry for Quidditch League Fanfiction Contest: Season Three: Round Four - Hermione Granger was always a sucker for peer pressure, so when her post-war Slytherin friends, Draco Malfoy and Theodore Nott lure her off to be a Curse-Breaker and leave her boring paper-pushing Ministry job behind, she, of course, couldn't resist.

Severus allowed Minerva McGonagall to convince him that becoming an Animagus would be a wonderful idea. It would be useful to have a second form! It could be relaxing! He should have known better than to listen to a bloody Gryffindor.

[HG/TN]: Written for the Bewitching Fiction Beltane Challenge 2015 - Theodore Nott has a pest problem, and a Slytherin always knows how to death with pests.

Round Two Daily Prophet Challenge April 2015 Had to be 500 words or less. Rules taken from: "Round 8 – Kill 'em with Fluff"

HG/SS: Entry for poetry competition. Mandatory prompt: Relationships and fire Severus seems to be on fire, and it's all HER fault!

The Quidditch League Fanfiction Competition Entry for Season III Round Two Theme: Hufflepuff x Hufflepuff Friendship

The Quidditch League Fanfiction Competition Entry (Round 2) Round Two Theme: Friends Are The Family We Choose For Ourselves Beater 1: Hufflepuff x Hufflepuff friendship Optional Prompts: (phase) piece of cake (opening sentence) It had been a very long day)

Hermione Snape is having one of those days. Prompts for: Pride of Portree One shot.

What if Severus Snape had taken Hermione Granger under wing secretly during her time at Hogwarts? What if Draco Malfoy really wasn't the bigot he let everyone think he was? (Follows canon mostly up until the end of GoF, and then detours off into AU territory w/Severus as father figure)

[SS/HG] Severus Snape finds himself with an unlikely friend after the end of the Second Wizarding War that changes his life forever. One-shot. (An Ottermione Story)

AU: Severus finds himself walking alone in a blizzard to celebrate his lonely birthday. Sometimes the best laid plans are doomed to failure. Outtake in the world from Looks Can Be Deceiving. In honour of Severus' birthday today. One-shot.