Thanks to a Snake (Harry/Daphne)

Thanks to a Snake by lucky14now
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6926581/1/Thanks-to-a-Snake

Just so you know I love Slytherin Harry because lets be real with that kind of background it would be a miracle for him to be in Gryffindor, home of the loud, outspoken, bullying cannon fodder. This is a great story although the first chapter is a little rushed and seemed to have every cliche about Harry's first trip and independence move. But it gets much better afterwards. This is a believable Harry not super powerful or super whiny my like sucks. Thanks to his parents he has a marriage contract with Daphne Greengrass and finds himself with a family. Snape pulls his head out of his ass an realizes that blaming the son for the sins of the father is stupid not to mention he is tired of dancing to Dumbledore's strings. Dumbledork is his usual manipulative self and does not like the fact that his plans are falling apart. About 1/2 way through the story when I am sure of what they are planning for Dumbledork the writer surprises the heck out of me and settles it differently, I was torn between laughing and going WTF. This story is definitely NSF and not just for the parts that make you laugh, there is real friendship tested under hardships, betrayal, loyalty, love and family and a world that make sense, where the adults realize they should get off their asses and do their job instead of depending on a teenager, albeit a powerful one, but still a teenager to solve their problems. I love the relationships that surround his friends, no one is perfect but they all work together.

Away in a manger (Severus & Harry)

(not a great picture but I am learning)
Away in a manager by Snapegirlkmf
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5563049/1/Away-in-a-Manger

Lovely Christmas story I have to admit I fell a little in love with Augustus Prince Severus's grandfather. Now that was a true lord and warrior. The Dursleys decide to get rid of Harry in an innovative way, they dump in a manger in a creche scene and our favorite Potion Master happens to be passing by depressed at his life. This is a story where he does not join the Deatheators instead concentrating on getting his Masters. At his wits end at dealing with a sick toddler which was funny because been there, done that he finds a letter from his mother telling him to go to his grandfather. He does and this is the story of Harry raised as a Snape not a weapon.

3 Slytherin Marauders (Harry Potter) WIP

3 Slytherin Marauders by SeverusPhoenix
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4923158/1/3-Slytherin-Marauders

I love this story it is a fresh concept and there is little or no character bashing. Dudley gets a wake-up call when they are 10 years old when another child points out that he is the freak for what his family is doing. This starts him to question his and his parents behavior and Petunia finally grows a backbone and decides it is time to leave. She contacts Severus and tells him everything not sparing herself. He decides to get involved, there is a wild flight from a crazed Vernon, living on a dragon preserve, a resurrected Tom Riddle that is bonded to a dead dragon to keep him on the straight and narrow, animagus forms, a father son relationship with Severus, Lucius falls for a squib and Dudley is a wizard and something only rarely seen an evil Neville Longbottom. An excellent story.