Snakeling’s Recs

[Harry Potter]

Title: Laughter of the Gods
Author: Llama fluffyllama
Summary: On his last day at Hogwarts, Harry makes more than one mistake… but he's not the only one.
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: NC-17
Warning: dubious consent, underage, caning

Why?

See Snape trying to be more clever and Slytherin than Harry. See Snape fail. Utterly :)

Hot and hilarious!

[Harry Potter]

Title: Games of Skill And Chance
Author: snowballjane
Summary: The war is over and Severus Snape has one more term left to work at Hogwarts. How does he end up running the school games club and how will it affect him?
Characters: Snape, Lupin, students OC
Rating: PG

Why?

If you told me that there was a fic where Snape ends up voluntarily running the games club at Hogwarts, I would laugh it off as so OOC as to share only Snape's name. And yet, Snowballjane makes it work, here.

The war is over, Snape was wounded, and is just tired of teaching. While looking for another job, he ends up, almost by accident, founding and running a games club involving students of all four houses (yes, even Gryffindor).

All the characters are believable and well-rounded, especially the kids. At no point do you get torn out of the plot and say, "wait, it would never happen like that." An excellent feel-good story, even though you might get a little teary at the end.

Enjoy :)