Secret Snarry Swap: Pre-reveals Wrap-Up...
That's a wrap for Secret Snarry Swap. But below the cut is the full list of fic and art for our combined exchange and prompt fest! Everyone who left a prompt and those who participated in the exchange all have at least one gift or prompt written with them in mind.
For those of you who like statistics, this round of Secret Snarry Swap yielded 421,000 words of fic and 9 pieces of art in 64 entries by 43 individual creators!
The reveals won't go up until Friday, January 10, so if you haven't had time in the holiday rush, we hope you're able to catch up on any entries you may have missed or, if you haven't already, please take time to leave some feedback. The authors and artists will appreciate it! A little encouragement & love go a long way and it's never too late to let someone know how much you enjoyed their work.
FIC:
•A Brave New World, NC-17, 4,300 words Summary: ‘I believe in nothing. Not in peace and not in war, but the truth of who we are’. DW, LJ, or IJ
•A Fateful Letter, PG-13, 7,084 words Summary: A Slytherin’s manipulations might be subtle but they should be careful not to fall into their own trap. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Auld Lang Syne, PG-13, 2,242 words Summary: Harry and Severus’ developing relationship in the months after the Battle of Hogwarts, told through Minerva’s eyes. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Baby, It's Cold Outside, PG, 831 words Summary: For years, Harry has followed the Weasley traditions when it comes to Christmas, but this year, it might be a bit too cold outside to leave the warmth of his bed… and Severus. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Banshee, R for violence, 30,400 words Summary: Harry's first case as a homicide detective takes him to Hogwarts where nightmares beyond his imagining await him. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Best Laid Plans, R, 5,500 words Summary: It’s coming up to Christmas. Harry is free from work commitments and he and Severus have decided to spend their first Christmas Day together, without anybody else around. Harry is determined to make everything perfect, but as is often the case, things don’t quite go according to plan. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Calamus Root, PG-13, 2,100 words Summary: Harry does what he can during the holidays to try to give Severus what he needs. This year, Severus reassures Harry that he already has everything he wants. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Castles of Sand, NC-17, 20,000 words Summary: Harry tries to find a reason to live. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Christmas Plans, NC-17, 5,100 words Summary: Harry discovers Severus' Christmas check-list and panics. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Christmas Whiskers, R, 1,790 words Summary: Severus brings home a kitten at the beginning of the Christmas holiday, when Harry is busy trying to make their first Christmas perfect. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Circe's Tears, R, 13,000 words Summary: There's a deadly potion on the South Bank, and Chief of Potions Purity Harry Potter should be in on the hunt for the brewer; why are the Aurors keeping him in the dark? DW, LJ, or IJ
•Closing Time, PG-13, 3,000 words Summary: Everyone knows what he used to be: a condemned criminal, who couldn’t handle the time in Azkaban and agreed to the memory-removal program to enable him to start a new life. For all intents and purposes, he’s a new man. Nobody seems to fault him for that. Except perhaps for one man named Potter. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Comfort and Joy, NC-17, 5,700 words Summary: Snarry Severitus, family Christmas DW, LJ, or IJ
•Crazy Christmas, PG, 1,100 words Summary: Severus just cannot take another minute in the madness that is the Burrow at Christmas. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Cross Your Heart, NC-17, 3,700 words Summary: Kingsley sends Harry and Severus on a research mission. While they are supposed to check an area for plants used in an illegal potion, they are attacked – and things speed up more than they expected. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Darkest Corner, PG-13, 2,601 words Summary: While Harry is unable to experience fear anymore, Severus is unwilling to feel it, ever again. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Dear Father Christmas, PG, 2,000 words Summary: Almost every year Severus writes a letter to Father Christmas. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Falling is Sometimes the Best Route, NC-17, 16,642 words Summary: In order to get out of having to take an Eromenos, Severus asks the one person he's sure will say no—except he says yes. DW, LJ, or IJ
•From Memory, NC-17, 19,250 words, Chan Summary: “Fifteen years or more after the Final Battle. Harry is the deputy headmaster at Hogwarts and makes a visit to a Muggle-born incoming first-year's family to find himself face-to-face with an Amnesiac Severus Snape and his son Harry.” DW, LJ, or IJ
•Going Concern, NC-17, 26,700 words Summary: Tired of the work they are doing, Harry, Ron, and Hermione take over a small business together, running a magical antiques shop. When his marriage begins to fall apart, Harry turns to an unlikely confidant. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Goodnight, Severus, PG-13, 1,561 words Summary: Severus never sleeps as well when Harry isn't in bed beside him. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Halfway Through the Journey of Our Life, NC-17, 23,120 words Summary: When Ron and Hermione are killed in a car crash, Harry finds himself juggling his new responsibilities as guardian to Rose and Hugo with both his career and his relationship with Severus. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Harmony, R, 2,200 words Summary: It’s the last day of term, the children have all gone home on the Hogwarts Express, and Severus wants to relax with a glass of scotch and a lapful of Harry Potter. Unfortunately, Harry has committed them to a night of Christmas caroling with the Weasleys. A holiday fic in which Severus sings a solo, Harry sings for Severus, and the house-elves sing along. DW, LJ, or IJ
•His, NC-17, 4,300 words, Chan Summary: In detention with Snape during the final Quidditch game of the year during his sixth year, Harry Potter is given a choice between scrubbing cauldrons, and something else. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Hope for Christmas, PG, 1,290 words Summary: Prompt #32 - Even though he knew it was senseless and a complete waste of time, every year since he was four, Severus wrote a letter to Father Christmas. DW, LJ, or IJ
•In the Still of the Night, PG, 2,767 words Summary: Severus never sleeps as well when Harry isn't in bed beside him. DW, LJ, or IJ
•It's Always Potter!, PG, 2,581 words Summary: Something along the lines of the old trope, Snape finds out about Harry's horrible childhood and is filled with rage/empathy. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Kiss of War, PG-13, 15,000 words Summary: The dance of two souls around each other through the horrors of war, and the intrigues of London’s polite society. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Learning the Language, R, 1,450 words Summary: Severus may have known them to be true, but he has been waiting to hear these words for some time now. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Let Me Show You Heaven, NC-17, 30,000 words, Chan Summary: During Harry's sixth year, Dumbledore wants him and Snape to work closely together in order to defeat Voldemort. They become friends of a sort with mutual respect on either side, but they hadn't been prepared for everything Dumbledore wanted them to do. Trying to make up for failing his best friend, Lily, Severus decides it's time that Harry Potter was given what he never had before: the truth. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Let it Snow!, PG, 1,200 words Summary: Let it Snow! DW, LJ, or IJ
•Life in Motion, R, 14,600 words Summary: Harry and Severus' lives have always been entwined but when it becomes official, neither one finds that they are as upset about it as they might have once thought. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Lucid Dreaming, PG-13, 1,300 words Summary: Post Voldemort’s defeat. Severus is dead, and the only way Harry can be with him is in dreams. Each night he dreams of the man he never really knew, and falls in love with him. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Marks, PG, 5,200 words Summary: Harry's a computer science student, but he needs a writing credit to qualify for an internship. All the writing classes are full, so he ends up in Snape's lit class as a substitute. Snape is a hardass, but no one passes his class without learning to write, and it turns out they have something else in common. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Meeting at the Headmaster’s Office, NC-17, 1,626 words Summary: Headmaster Snape summons Harry Potter to a meeting to talk about his eldest son, James. Or not… DW, LJ, or IJ
•Morning, PG, 900 words Summary: Harry's and Severus' first Christmas as a couple brings some surprising news. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Nightbreak, NC-17, 4,800 words Summary: In an Auror raid before Christmas Harry is captured by vampires and turned. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Nobody’s Savior, NC-17, 56,843 words Summary: Albus Dumbledore is dead, Severus Snape is the leader of the Order of the Phoenix, Minerva is the spy inside the castle, and the war wages on. When the Boy Who Lived, who died in an accident before he was old enough to go to Hogwarts, is found going about his business in the Muggle World, everything changes – for the Order, for the Wizarding world and especially for Severus Snape. As Severus tries to discover why Albus hid Harry Potter, Harry Potter discovers magic, friends and a godfather, but nothing interests him more than Severus. A retelling of the final destruction of Voldemort, by the Boy Who Lived for quite a different reason. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Present Continuous, NC-17, 15,700 words Summary: Severus is brought in to collaborate on a case with Harry. A late night session is more productive than either man thought possible. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Rouge, R, 4,300 words Summary: Every year at Christmas, Severus secretly buys himself something special. This year, Harry finds out. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Shower Time, NC-17, 4,100 words Summary: Harry likes the showers at work. Severus finds this annoying. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Sneaking In, R, 3,711 words Summary: Harry is the year's Defence professor, but he and Severus both receive more. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Someone to Come Home To, PG-13, 7,595 words Summary: A Savior walks into a bookshop... but that's a story for another day. Today, Harry has asked a reluctant Severus out for dinner. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Something Like Peace and Quiet, NC-17, 2,700 words Summary: Snape likes it quiet. So he has no idea why he still works at Hogwarts, why he's opened up his chambers to Harry Potter, and (most of all) why he's buying Potter a bloody cat. DW, LJ, or IJ
•The Appeal of Dancing, R, 5,400 words Summary: Harry is forced to rethink his insistence on privacy when he sees his secret lover dancing with another man. DW, LJ, or IJ
•The Fairy Light Fiasco, PG, 1,150 words Summary: Fixing the Fairy Lights DW, LJ, or IJ
•The Jingtingler's Waltz: A Christmas Tale in Three Steps, PG, 3,600 words Summary: Severus just cannot take another minute in the madness that is the Burrow at Christmas. DW, LJ, or IJ
•The (Not Very) Big Freeze, PG-13, 800 words Summary: Trapped in a snowstorm. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Things I Cannot Change, NC-17, 3,325 words Summary: Harry can change his mind, change his career, change his marital status. But there are some things he cannot change, and maybe, just maybe, he really doesn't want to change them at all. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Through Magics In Thy Present Mind, PG-13, 4,600 words Summary: Harry goes on a journey to understand the fundamentals of magic only to discover his own self and life with Snape along the way DW, LJ, or IJ
•Valse Sentimentale, PG-13, 856 words Summary: Prompt #36: New traditions. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Visual Learning, R, 1,450 words Summary: Harry in conversation with Snape's portrait. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Waiting Hopefully for Christmas, NC-17, 2,800 words Summary: Harry wants more than he has. Severus too. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Way to a Man's Heart, PG-13, 9,100 words Summary: Harry wants to meet his match. He's willing to try anything to find him, even embarrassing things like place personal ads, but what he doesn't think to do is look right before his eyes. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Widdershins, PG-13, 5,015 words Summary: Removing the Horcrux from Harry resulted in damage to his amygdala. Consequently, he cannot feel fear. This makes him an amazing Auror but a terrible boyfriend/husband. DW, LJ, or IJ
FIC & ART:
•I Choose You, PG-13, 3,300 words Summary: When Harry is captured during a raid, Severus decides that he doesn’t want to keep their relationship secret anymore. DW, LJ, or IJ
ART:
•A Very Snarry Christmas, PG-13 NWS Summary: Harry didn't quite get around to mailing all of the holiday cards this year.... DW, LJ, or IJ
•All is Well, PG-13 Summary: What really happened at Christmas nineteen years later ... DW, LJ, or IJ
•Decorating the Winter Wonderland, G Summary: As the youngest two teachers at Hogwarts, it is Severus and Harry's job to decorate the trees for the "Winter Wonderland" out on the grounds – somehow they don't mind too much. DW, LJ, or IJ
•Go Home, Harry, PG Summary: "Sometimes a wide abyss separates Tuesday from Wednesday, but twenty-six years may pass in a moment. Time is no straight line. but rather a labyrinth. and if you press yourself against the wall, at the right spot, you can hear the hurrying steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walking past on the other side." - Tomas Tranströmer, Reply to a Letter DW, LJ, or IJ
•In Dreams, PG Summary: "In dreams, I'll walk with you, in dreams, I'll talk with you, in dreams you're mine all of the time" DW, LJ, or IJ
•Mistletoe, PG-13 Summary: Kiss under the mistletoe DW, LJ, or IJ
•Reconciliation, PG Summary: "Sometimes a wide abyss separates Tuesday from Wednesday, but twenty-six years may pass in a moment. Time is no straight line. but rather a labyrinth. and if you press yourself against the wall, at the right spot, you can hear the hurrying steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walking past on the other side." - Tomas Tranströmer, Reply to a Letter DW, LJ, or IJ
•The Unfreezing Kiss, PG Summary: Written for prompt #6: frozen out, wayward magic, icicles. Caught by a freezing curse and cast into a far away ice cave, Severus calls on the deepest Light magic to defeat the spell that threatens Harry's life. DW, LJ, or IJ