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   Hold on to Happiness by shatteredangel04

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
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   • Work in Progress

   12 Aug 2026

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   • Harry Potter & Severus Snape
   • Harry Potter
   • Severus Snape
   • Theodore Nott
   • Neville Longbottom
   • Tracey Davis (Harry Potter)
   • Draco Malfoy
   • Albus Dumbledore
   • Minerva McGonagall
   • Hermione Granger
   • Severitus | Severus Snape is Harry Potter's Parent
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Slytherin Harry Potter
   • Hogwarts Era
   • Original Character(s)
   • Mind Healers (Harry Potter)
   • Ron Weasley Bashing
   • Gryffindor & Slytherin Inter-House Friendships
   • Slytherin Politics
   • Physical Abuse
   • Manipulative Albus Dumbledore
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Protective Severus Snape
   • Angst
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Morally Grey Albus Dumbledore

   Summary

   When Potter’s Hogwarts letter goes unanswered, Minerva asks Severus to check in on him. What he finds makes him forget that he is supposed to hate this child for existing.

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