Yes! Snape as the dark yet good version of Malfoy was some of my favorite fics. He was delicious in a brooding, snide way, and really, if we are so unhappy with the way canon ended, why do we continue to write canon-compliant fics and do horrible things to the characters we once loved? Is it so hard to go back to those "classics" plots?
Also, a good non-magic AU is a refreshing change of pace, and the fics where magic has somehow vanished because Harry killed Voldemort are right there in that got-to-read pile, too.