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You think you're falling for an AI chatbot of Severus Snape. He thinks he's falling for a mysterious entity that sends him messages through a magical book. You're both wrong about what the other is. You're both right about the feelings.
A long-distance relationship across time, space, and the barrier between fiction and reality. Featuring: text-based slow burn, mutual "they're not really real" assumptions, accidental emotional vulnerability, and the mortifying ordeal of being known by someone you're not sure exists.
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Thirty-one nights. Thirty-one prompts. One dungeon's worth of Severus Snape—and the American professor who won't leave him alone.
A collection of standalone moments between Heather Winters and Severus Snape: soul bonds and shared dreams, closet encounters and library tension, grief and vulnerability and the strange inevitability of two people who were never supposed to fit.
No prior knowledge of Wandless required. Not posted in chronological order. Some pieces may be expanded later.
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- Part 2 of Wandless
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Trying for baby number two involves careful calculations, awkward pillow positioning, and Severus losing his composure more than once. When Heather suggests he just brew a fertility potion to make things easier, he explains—very seriously—why that would be a spectacularly bad idea.
The longer (and more explicit) version of my Day 26 Snapetober 2025 prompt: An Aphrodisiac Potion.
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- Part 3 of Wandless
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For seventeen years, Severus has worn the bracelet Lilac gave him before the war tore them apart. He never took it off. Never felt safe enough to try.
Now she's back, and she's determined to stay—even if it means confronting the Dark Mark on the same arm that carries her devotion.
A Secret Snape 2025 gift for Lili1478.
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Heather Winters lost her wand at twelve and her husband at thirty-one. Now she's at Hogwarts to teach wandless magic—a practice most of Britain dismisses as impossible. Between skeptical colleagues, curious students, and shadows from her past, she's braced for a difficult year.
She isn't prepared for Severus Snape.
What begins as mutual hostility turns strange when a magical accident forges a dream-bond between them, bleeding memories and emotions across the line between waking and sleep. In dreams, they speak with a candor they'd never risk in daylight. In reality, they circle each other—sharp words, guarded truce, and a pull neither can sever.
As Sirius Black stalks the grounds and Dementors close in, Heather must navigate staff politics, protect her students, and untangle the truth behind the bond—while the man behind the barbs becomes harder to look away from.
A slow-burn, canon-divergent Snape/OC romance set during Prisoner of Azkaban.
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- Part 1 of Wandless
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Heather Winters never expected to set foot in Hogwarts. An American witch expelled from Ilvermorny and scarred by grief after the death of her husband, she accepts Dumbledore’s offer to teach wandless elemental magic—a discipline most believe impossible. Proving herself to students and colleagues is challenge enough. Surviving the disdain of Severus Snape is worse.
But when a failed lesson creates a soul-deep dream bond between them, Heather and Snape are forced into an intimacy neither wanted. What begins as rivalry twists into reluctant trust, then fragile care, and finally the slow spark of something more. From Triwizard chaos to the shadow of the Order, through the fractures of war and the final siege of Hogwarts, their bond becomes both weapon and weakness—tested by secrets, divided loyalties, and the price of survival.
Wandless is a slow-burn, character-driven reimagining of the Potter era, following Heather’s journey through loss, belonging, and the dangerous tether that ties her fate to the most guarded man in the castle.
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Even This Darkness Must Pass by GuilelessAesthete
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
28 Nov 2018
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A woman of Gondor has been banished, and she takes refuge in Rohan, serving the royal family. How long can she keep her past deeds a secret? Slightly AU, but goes with the movie plot. EomerxOC. Tags will be added as the story progresses.
Previously posted on Fanfiction.net under the same username.
Bookmarked by zarinari
09 Oct 2025
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I read this story like forever ago. I wanna go back and reread it because I remember being in love with it at the time.
Read chapters 5/13
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Severus Snape and his lover, Heather Winters, kiss under the mistletoe one Christmas night.
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"“Mistletoe~” she cooed, her lilting voice tickling his ears.
Severus glanced up to see it, a bundle of fresh mistletoe tied with cardinal red ribbon. His love’s glittery magic made it float directly above them. Its berries sparkled like rubies.
“You know what this means, don’t you?”
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Lilac Underwood has had a huge crush on Severus Snape since her fourth year at Hogwarts. Now a sixth year, she happens to find Severus in the library. There, romance blooms.
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"Lilac walked over to Severus, his confused expression fueling her confidence. Confusion was much better than anger. Lilac couldn’t help but marvel at his beauty. Severus’ black hair glistened from the rays coming from the open window. He was slender and skin milky. His hooked nose and pimples that littered his face gave him character. Lilac could have spent hours gazing into those midnight eyes, but her conscience stopped her."Series
- Part 5 of Lilac Underwood AUs
Bookmarked by zarinari
11 Nov 2025
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Lili's story, on my list to read ~
Finished chapter 3/3, waiting on update
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Kémya by CypressWand
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
04 Jan 2026
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Severus Snape and Lily Evans used to be friends. After their fight near the end of their fifth year at Hogwarts, they drifted apart as strangers. He had chosen his path, and she had chosen hers, never to meet again. But sometimes the story of two people isn't over after they go their separate ways. Not when their paths cross once more in the most unlikely of places. At the bottom of the Great Lake - and with a magic Ring for the taking.
In Middle-earth Severus and Lily must find a way back to each other, and learn about each other, while their disappearance off-sets a chain of events back in the wizarding world.
- This is a Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings crossover, and starts at the beginning of Lily and Severus' 7th year at Hogwarts in 1977.
- Snily endgame.
- Kémya is the 4th Ring of Power.
- Story takes place in both the wizarding world and in Middle-earth.
- NOT a 10th/11th walker story.
- NO character bashing.Bookmarked by zarinari
03 Oct 2025
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Not a huge fan of the Snily pairing, but comboed with LOTR? Yeah, I gotta check this.