I have this HUGE smile on my face: You have never read Tira Nog! It's like saying I have never had ice cream, I have never tried chocolate... If you like sshg, I am guessing you are not interested in slash, But luckily, one of the most wonderful stories by Tira is not slash: A Nick In Time. http://tiranog.southroad.com/harry_potter/A_Nick_In_Time.htm Now, I do not know what you are doing right now, but unless you are giving CPR to a baby, drop everything, and RUN to read it. That will kill 2 birds at once: you will get an idea of the Snape I am talking about, and you will have sampled some of the best storytelling in fanfiction. (Your Snape portrait is, IMO, the portrait of the Severus Snape in "Whispers of intent", but it contains hard core gay porn, and might no be to your taste...)