Title: Unfolding
Author: halbeshaus
Other pairings/threesome: none
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 8058
Content/Warning(s): PTSD, mentions of abuse.
Prompter/Prompt: No. 16 from smirkingcat: Harry was certain, that if it wasn't for his mother's green eyes, Severus would have never given him any chance in the first place. Even years after they announced their relationship, Harry still feels like he is living in the shadow of his mother. But then Severus managed to find a way to lay all his worries and doubts to rest (you can totally switch and tell it from Severus' pov).
Summary: "Dying men are desperate, Mr Potter." Snape's fingers drummed against his glass as he spoke. "I clearly wasn't in my right mind – and neither were you as it seems. I thought I had failed your mother. It wasn't your eyes I wanted to see, but hers."
A/N: A massive thank you to my beta thegreatsnapescape, who kept me sane throughout this process. Your thoughts and ideas were invaluable.

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( Unfolding )

Week One is under our belts and we're off to a great start! Thanks to everyone reading and commenting. The authors and artists really appreciate it!

Also, we're looking for recs! And if you want to let us know that you've recced any Secret Snarry Swap fic or art on your journal in an unlocked post or on Tumblr, comment to this post, or drop us an e-mail at the mod email (spfestmod@gmail.com). Anything that collects three or more recs will be forwarded to the newsletters and all recs will be forwarded to the authors/artists. Thanks!

Lastly, a quick reminder than all chan entries and any NC-17 artwork are always locked. Please join snape_potter to see all of our fest entries.


FIC:
•Halfway to Hornsea NC-17, 30,000 words
Summary: As Auror Potter's first mission goes terribly wrong in Atwick, Yorkshire, will Severus Snape's curse-breaking knowledge and family roots be enough to save the day?
LJ, IJ, DW

•Magic and Mixology at McCauley's Pub R, 8,712 words
Summary: A new bartender shows up in Harry's favourite bar. He looks vaguely familiar, but only if viewed from the corner of the eye. It's just enough to spark Harry's curiosity.
LJ, IJ, DW

•Of Toadstones and Indecent Toggery NC-17, 6,736 words
Summary: Severus is in a bit of tight spot. He needs a Toadstone for a potion he is brewing. Toadstones cure nearly any affliction and negate any poisons, but the only problem is…they are exceedingly rare...and the side effects cause strong, drugged hallucinations, therefore heavily regulated by the Ministry. A certain twenty-one-year-old and newly single Auror is the only one Snape knows who has access to such things at the Ministry. Severus is quite desperate, and admittedly hasn’t had a decent shag in nearly a decade. Potter has grown to be quite the stud, and Severus decides that maybe a little seduction might help his cause, even if they may have put the past behind them.
LJ, IJ, DW

•Error 404 G, 1,280 words
Summary: Welcome to the Auror Corps Technical Support. We thank you for your patience. An agent will be available shortly!
LJ, IJ, DW

•Winter Song G, 5,000 words
Summary: "... I don't think we can fit eight thirty-foot trees in here."
LJ, IJ, DW

•All I Want for Christmas Is You NC-17, 2,000 words
Summary: All Harry wants for Christmas is Severus Snape.
LJ, IJ, DW

•Five Steps to Surviving Cabin Fever NC-17, 6,566 words
Summary: Harry's worst nightmare comes true, instead of spending his days off lounging around his apartment he's been called in for a case. It all gets worse when the case drags on for longer than expected and Robards decides he'll need help.
LJ, IJ, DW

•Alone R, 3,600 words
Summary: Harry loses his way, and nearly takes the whole of Wizardry down with him.
LJ, IJ, DW

•Latex, Lace, Leather and Six Inch Stilettos, a Recipe for Happily Ever After PG-13, 3,287 words
Summary: Newly married Ginny Malfoy has decided that her “brother from another mother” has been lonely long enough. With the help of Narcissa Malfoy (who quickly commandeers the effort), Molly Weasley, and Hermione Granger, prospective brides are interviewed, and a list of seemingly suitable witches is compiled. They are to meet Harry and his extended family, where Harry will meet the candidates and choose his bride. Rita Skeeter eavesdrops on their plans and they become headline news. Severus Snape “reads all about it” and decides to add his name to the list. Severus Snape makes quite an entrance, Snarry ensues. And there is a crazy pub crawl with magical Cher impersonators.
LJ, IJ, DW

•A Radical Change in (Self) Perception NC-17, 57,000 words
Summary: Harry should know better than to touch museum exhibits, especially in a magical museum. Now he's in trouble...
LJ, IJ, DW


ART:
•A Family Christmas G
Summary: Harry has nowhere to go after he tells his cheating, no-good boyfriend that he is pregnant. Not wanting to intrude on his friends, Harry asks Severus if he will take him in, and romance blossoms between them as Severus takes on the role of the supportive other father.
LJ, IJ, DW


We'll be back tomorrow with another week of new entries!

Title: A Radical Change in (Self) Perception
Author: AnyaElizabeth
Other pairings/threesome: Background Ron/Hermione.
Rating: Explicit/NC-17
Word count: ~57000
Content/Warning(s): EWE. Oral. First Time. Christmas fluff. Touches on past childhood abuse/neglect/trauma, domestic violence and grief. Vague allusions to under-18 sexual activity.
Prompter/Prompt: No. 9 from ladyofsd: Freaky Friday the movie meets Snarry. After the unexpected switch, they both find out the other is gay. Harry also discovers Snape is a brilliant flyer, and Snape learns how excellent Harry is at teaching.
Summary: Harry should know better than to touch museum exhibits, especially in a magical museum. Now he's in trouble...
A/N: So my left brain said 'Oh, twenty thousand words of fluffy comedy, a reasonable proposition', but my right brain heard '50,000 WORDS OF PERSPECTIVE HOPS, BODYSWAP SEX AND FEELINGS, COMING RIGHT UP'. Also, I have to confess to my prompter, I have only seen the 2003 Freaky Friday, and I'm not sure this fic has kept as much of the flavour as I originally intended. Although it may be at least partially responsible for Punk!Snape...

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(A Radical Change in (Self) Perception)

Title: Latex, Lace, Leather and Six Inch Stilettos, a Recipe for Happily Ever After
Author: drwritermom
Other pairings/threesomes: Ginny Weasley/Draco Malfoy, Other pairings will be revealed below
Rating: Teen and above
Word count: 3287
Content/Warning(s): Mpreg
Prompter/Prompt: No. 49 from suitesamba: Newly-married Ginny Weasley has decided that Harry, too, needs a spouse. She begins interviewing candidates, and Severus decides to give it a go and schedule an interview. The problem is, Ginny doesn't know Harry is gay and is interviewing only women.
Summary: Newly married Ginny Malfoy has decided that her “brother from another mother” has been lonely long enough. With the help of Narcissa Malfoy (who quickly commandeers the effort), Molly Weasley, and Hermione Granger, prospective brides are interviewed, and a list of seemingly suitable witches is compiled. They are to meet Harry and his extended family, where Harry will meet the candidates and choose his bride. Rita Skeeter eavesdrops on their plans and they become headline news. Severus Snape “reads all about it” and decides to add his name to the list. Severus Snape makes quite an entrance, Snarry ensues. And there is a crazy pub crawl with magical Cher impersonators.
A/N: The characters belong to JKR, Bloomsbury Books, and Warner Brothers. The prompt belongs to the prompter (bravo), the direction I took said prompt is all my doing. No performance enhancers (or inhibitors) were used while composing this piece of fluffy crack, unless you count caffeine - I’ve had plenty of that. I think it shows.

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( Latex, Lace, Leather and Six Inch Stilettos )

Title: Alone
Author: Lilian
Other pairings/threesome: past Ginny Weasley/Harry Potter (mentioned)
Rating: M
Word count: ca. 3600
Content/Warning(s): mentions of suicide, mental health issues, morally ambiguous!Harry, cursing, sexual content
Prompter/Prompt: No. 50 from amanitamuscaria: After his battle with Voldemort, Harry is the only person left in the world with magic.
Summary: Harry loses his way, and nearly takes the whole of Wizardry down with him.
A/N: Thank you hippocrates460 for awesome advice and for looking over this, thank you mods for organising this event, thank you all you beautiful people who ship snarry for reading. :)

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( Alone )

Title: A Family Christmas
Artist: Eriador117
Other pairings/threesomes: None
Rating: G
Media: Sims 4 and Gimp
Prompt/Prompter: No. 11 from leontinabowie: Harry has nowhere to go after he tells his cheating, no-good boyfriend that he is pregnant. Not wanting to intrude on his friends, Harry asks Severus if he will take him in, and romance blossoms between them as Severus takes on the role of the supportive other father.
Summary: See prompt.

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( A Family Christmas )

*This artwork is the sole property of the artist who created it. Please do not use it or repost it, in whole or in part, on any platform without the express consent of the artist. If you would like to rec this image, please link to this post or the artist's journal after the reveals.

Title: Five Steps to Surviving Cabin Fever
Author: hippocrates460
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: Explicit
Word count: 6566
Content/Warning(s): UST, Praise kink, Sex
Prompter/Prompt: No. 17 from writcraft: Harry was looking forward to a relaxed Christmas with the Weasleys, drinking too much and eating too much. When a case at the Ministry takes on a new urgency, Harry's plans are turned upside down. Things go from bad to worse when he finds out he will be spending Christmas with none other than the Ministry's potions consultant, Severus Snape.
Summary: Harry's worst nightmare comes true, instead of spending his days off lounging around his apartment he's been called in for a case. It all gets worse when the case drags on for longer than expected and Robards decides he'll need help.
A/N: Thank you for the prompt, it was so much fun to write this, and thank you to the mods for organizing! To Lilian: Thank you for your help and support.

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( Five Steps to Surviving Cabin Fever )

Title: All I Want for Christmas Is You
Author: maraudersaffair
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 2000
Content/Warning(s): Pining, Christmas Fluff, Light Angst, Past Relationships
Prompter/Prompt: No. 30 from alisanne: It's his fifth Christmas after the war and Harry is done living for everyone else. He's finally going to go after what he wants: a life with Severus Snape.
Summary: All Harry wants for Christmas is Severus Snape.
A/N: Thanks for reading!

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( All I Want for Christmas Is You )

Title: Winter Song
Author: amanitamuscaria
Other pairings/threesome: nope
Rating: G
Word count: 5,000
Content/Warning(s): One drunken pass, nothing else to worry about.
Prompter/Prompt: No. 4 from lilyseyes: Harry has helped nurse Severus back to health after Nagini's bite and is determined to spend the holidays with him, but Harry realizes he knows nothing of Yule and little about Christmas traditions.
Summary: "... I don't think we can fit eight thirty-foot trees in here."
A/N: Thank you to all who keep the Snarry going.

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( Winter Song )

Title: Error 404
Author: MagicaDraconia16
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: Gen
Word count: 1,280-ish
Content/Warning(s): None
Prompter/Prompt: No. 40 from digthewriter: Non MAGIC AU. Tech support!HARRY. Annoyed and hates computers!SNAPE.
Summary: Welcome to the Auror Corps Technical Support. We thank you for your patience. An agent will be available shortly!
A/N: One of these problems came from the website Not Always Right, and two came from my own experience (one from the tech side, one from the client side). In double-checking for the answer to one of those problems, I found it on superuser.com (and from my own experience).

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( Error 404 )

Title: Of Toadstones and Indecent Toggery
Author: SireneNomdePlume
Other pairings/threesomes: Harry Potter/Justin Finch-Fletchley
Rating: Explicit
Word count: 6,736
Content: Blowjobs, frottage, sixty-nine
Prompter/Prompt: No. 48 from torino10154: Harry has something Severus needs (an ingredient? a magical artifact?). What is he willing to do to get it?
Summary: Severus is in a bit of tight spot. He needs a Toadstone for a potion he is brewing. Toadstones cure nearly any affliction and negate any poisons, but the only problem is…they are exceedingly rare...and the side effects cause strong, drugged hallucinations, therefore heavily regulated by the Ministry. A certain twenty-one-year-old and newly single Auror is the only one Snape knows who has access to such things at the Ministry. Severus is quite desperate, and admittedly hasn’t had a decent shag in nearly a decade. Potter has grown to be quite the stud, and Severus decides that maybe a little seduction might help his cause, even if they may have put the past behind them.
A/N: Well shucks, this one was fun to write! I hope you enjoy!!!

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( Of Toadstones and Indecent Toggery )

Title: Magic and Mixology at McCauley's Pub
Author: NestingHedwig_aka_LinW
Rating: Mature
Word count: 8,712
Content/Warning(s): AU, some profanity
Prompter/Prompt: No. 25 from themightyflynn: A new bartender shows up in Harry's favourite bar. He looks vaguely familiar, but only if viewed from the corner of the eye. It's just enough to spark Harry's curiosity.
A/N: Written for Secret Snarry Swap 2018. All characters depicted herein in adult situations may safely be assumed to be over eighteen.
Disclaimer: The story is based on characters created and owned by J.K. Rowling, various publishers including, but not limited to Scholastic Books and Warner Bros. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended; no monetary gain will be made from this story.

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( Magic and Mixology at McCauley's Pub )

Title: Halfway to Hornsea
Author/Artist: Acid
Rating: Explicit
Length: 30,000+
Warnings: Hurt/comfort, small towns, dark magic residue
Prompter/Prompt: No. 20 from maraudersaffair: During an Auror mission in a rural part of England, Harry is attacked and left for dead. The person who finds him is Severus Snape.
Summary: As Auror Potter's first mission goes terribly wrong in Atwick, Yorkshire, will Severus Snape's curse-breaking knowledge and family roots be enough to save the day?
Author's Note: Endless thanks to A and PK for their beta-reading effort! This story fought me like an angry dragon. They helped to steer it back on track. Thank you, also, to the creator of this wonderful prompt and to everyone reading. May you find your way to that one special doorway just in time for the holidays.

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(Halfway to Hornsea)

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The plan most weeks is for one or two entries a day, Sunday-Friday, with weekly wrap-up posts on Saturdays. Reveals will be on/around December 31st!

We hope you'll join us!

Entries for Secret Snarry Swap are due TODAY, November 18! Please submit your completed entry (or your extension request) to spfestmod at gmail dot com.

Posting begins on Saturday, December 1st!

Entries for this year's Secret Snarry Swap are due SUNDAY, November 18. You can find all the FAQs and headers here. If you have questions or concerns (or will need an extension) feel free to email us at spfestmod AT gmail DOT com.

Entries for this year's Secret Snarry Swap are due on November 18th, one month from today.

You can find all the rules, FAQs, and headers here.

If you have questions or concerns, feel free to email us at spfestmod AT gmail DOT com.

Secret Snarry Swap claiming posts are here: LJ/IJ/DW!

Remember you can claim even if you did not leave a prompt! Just a week in and we already have a wonderful group of creators signed up but there are still a bunch of great prompts left. Join us, won't you?

IS NOW OPEN!

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Secret Snarry Swap claiming posts are here: LJ/IJ/DW

Remember you can claim even if you did not leave a prompt!

CLAIMING IS NOW OPEN!

Below you'll find a list of all the prompts submitted for this year's Secret Snarry Swap. In order to make a claim, simply reply to this post and tell us the number of the prompt you'd like to fulfill and an alternate. Comments are screened to preserve anonymity.

<b>Username:</b> <b>Email Address:</b> <b>1st choice #:</b> <b>2nd choice #:</b> <b>I am willing to pinch hit - y/n:</b>

Each creator will only fulfill one prompt, but will be asked to identify 2 prompts you are willing to claim. If someone else claims your first choice before you get the chance to do it, you'll automatically get your second choice. Even though we will be striking out the sign-ups as soon as they're claimed, there's no guarantee you'll get your first choice. If you are willing to create something for any of the prompts, please indicate that in your claim and the mods will assign you a prompt. A mod will confirm your claim via e-mail. PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FILTERS!

Secret Snarry Swap Prompts!

The entry you create does NOT have to include all likes in the prompter's request. But it should include at least one as well as none of their deal-breakers. We ask participants to assume anything too kinky or too outside the box shouldn't be in the creation unless specifically requested. That means scat, necrophilia, bloodplay, watersports and Roman showers will be assumed to be a deal-breaker unless specifically requested. IMPORTANT Additionally, because it could be illegal for some to view anything with an under-18 character, chan will not be permitted UNLESS requested by the recipient. Please remember chan at snape_potter is anything under 18. This includes past and/or implied chan.

Completed pieces are due by Sunday, November 18 and should be emailed to spfestmod AT gmail DOT com. Full fest rules and information can be found here: LJ, IJ, or DW. If you have any further questions, feel free to email us.