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A drawing of a man with sharp teeth in a grin. From the bridge of his nose upwards, his head is made of thick black smoke



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  1. Summary

    Handshakes, a dance, and coming to terms with the future you want after a giant cursed snake almost ends your life.
    Severus Snape is not an easy catch, but neither is the Golden Snitch and Viktor Krum is a World class Seeker.

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  2. Summary

    In Cokeworth there's a chippy.

    Jack Booth has seen a lot of customers, but none of them have been as important to him as one strange, dark-haired lad.

    Jack's Chippy covers from 1976 to the end of the First Wizarding War.

    [...] covers 1982 to the end of the second.

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  4. Summary

    Two fics that can be read together but don't need to be.
    The first is Draco growing up and his interactions with his father's oldest friend.
    The second is Post-war, where Snape Lives and their interactions are on slightly more even footing.

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  5. Summary

    A series of drabbles with 69 words each.
    Multiple pairings etc.

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  1. Rec 6

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    “Most would play the virgin a little straighter—lean into the innocence. Not you?”

    “I’m a lot of things, Professor Karkaroff. Innocent isn’t one of them.” He would see the Mark on his arm before long, if this went ahead. There was little point in pretending otherwise.

    “You won’t pretend?”

    “Do you want me to?”

    “…No. I’ll have you as you are, malenkaya voronushka.”
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    Prompt: Through his Death Eater connections, Severus learns of a way to get a leg up in his Potions career. All he has to do is convince Igor Karkaroff to make the introduction--meaning all Severus has to do, is make it worth his while.

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    07 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Ho l y shit.

    This is *gorgeous* prose and so hot and so clever and I need to finish this and comment on every chapter

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    “Teach me?” he stutters, pale eyes wide in stunned disbelief. “Y- You? Teach me?

    Minerva nods, a mental muffliato at the fatalistic voice in her head that’s taunting through a mile-long scroll of all the ways that this is madness. He’s a squib; fifty years and not a whisper of magic.

    “But you’re-" latent legilimency means she hears him tripping over the words in his mind, famousbrilliantbeautiful-

    “Headmistress,” he croaks, aloud.

    “And you are a valued member of my staff, Argus.” In her most no nonsense voice; the one that silences the chattering Great Hall and makes the gargoyles on the staircases jump to attention. “We’ll start on Thursday evening. Seven o’clock.”

    Minerva McGonagall and Argus Filch. Magic lessons, first wands. Healing, after the wizarding war, and falling, slowly and very gently, in love.

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    05 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    MUST READ THIS.

    LEAPLING REC

  3. Rec 10

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    According to Nearly-Headless Nick, "The one boon - if there must be one - of this half-alive existence is that one gets to watch."

    After several hundred years of disembodied floating, gosh he has seen a lot of things! And some of them are really quite ridiculous...

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    01 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 2

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    “Why stop there?” Building up a head of steam now. “We could host bingo nights, funerals-”

    A glare, to keep her from pointing out that he’s directly responsible for the most recent funeral to have taken place at Hogwarts. And nearly a second, a year later.

    “Charity galas - the Society for the Protection of Priapic Porlocks must need a venue for their annual prostate milking. Or the Guild of Goblin Gynaecologists-”

    “You know,” Minerva observes, “I think I preferred you when that enormous snake had bitten through your vocal cords.”

    Summoning every rumble of gravelly sarcasm his magical laryngectomy’s afforded him. “Or the Miss Hogsmeade contest? I’m sure Aberforth would rise to the occasion; don a sequined speedo for the swimsuit round.”

    “Where was all of this creativity, Severus, when the Board was brainstorming revenue schemes?” Peering sternly over her reading glasses in a way she's very well aware shoots straight to his groin.

    “It abandoned me, mid-meeting, much like my will to live.”

    Severus handles Minerva's fundraising plans for post-war repairs to the castle with characteristic equanimity.

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    18 May 2026

  5. Rec 2

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    It's been a very long summer without him.

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    16 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Snape/Pince

    HOT ORAL lots of wizardy similes and metaphors