Title: a scratch for every itch
Author: bleedcolor
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: Teen
Word count: 11,475
Content/Warning(s): None
Prompt: Harry keeps kissing Severus every time they meet. It's a curse. No, really.
Summary: Severus Snape is an itch that Harry just can't scratch.
A/N: Many, many thanks to Likelightinglass who kept me going when I wanted to give up, and to Likelightinglass, Hippocrates460, and Galixidrop for looking this over and assuring me it wasn't as terrible as I thought. Also, special shoutout to the Snarry discord for all your moral support! I wanted to do something a little more lighthearted for Snarry-a-thon this year and I'm not sure I succeeded, but if nothing else I now know a lot more about certain types of bugs than I wanted to, thanks to an ill-advised wikipedia spiral while researching.

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(a scratch for every itch)

Title: Eighth Year Untitled
Author: OliverWilde
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: Teen
Word count: 5924
Content/Warning(s): Hogwarts 8th year, Hurt/comfort, Canon-divergence, Snape Lives
Prompt: In August, Severus and Harry celebrate after Severus is exonerated and wake up to find they have had sex. Severus leaves without a word, but Harry is determined to pursue a relationship and returns to Hogwarts September 1st as an 8th-year student.
Summary: In August, Severus and Harry celebrate after Severus is exonerated and wake up to find they have had sex. Severus leaves without a word, but Harry is determined to pursue a relationship and returns to Hogwarts September 1st as an 8th-year student.
A/N: Beta read by the lovely Rexluscus and Hippocrates460 (Thank you), which was exciting! They helped me out guys, super fun!

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( Eighth Year Untitled )

Title: 2019 Breathe Christmas – Part 3
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating : Teen
Author: lilyseyes
Word Count: 100 x 7
Prompt: Written for adventdrabbles Prompt15: Warming with Hot Chocolate / Prompt16: Christmas Kittens / Prompt17: Christmas Pines / Prompt18: Teddy Bear / Prompt19: First Snow / Prompt20: Heart Shaped Gates
Warnings: * past Mpreg*
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.
Summary:Glimpses of Christmas with the Potter-Snape family. Another in the Breathe Series

Title: "For There is Nothing Lost but May Be Found"
Author: myfirstisthefourth
Other pairings/threesome: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: Teen/General
Word count: 4000
Content/Warning(s): Pining, Loneliness, Very Minor Angst, Fluff, Romance, Humor, Men Kissing.
Prompter/Prompt: No. 45 from torino10154: With his kids grown up and moved away, Professor Potter is especially lonely during the long, cold winters at Hogwarts.
Summary: The holiday break is proving to be a lonely one for Professor Potter until a surprising turn of events makes for a very Happy New Year.
A/N: Many thanks to the mods for the gracious extension so that I could manage to participate this year. I have struggled with my writing for over a year now but truly didn't want to miss writing for the Swap again. I hope you enjoy. My constant gratitude to IrelandSpades for standing by me through the struggles and being a Terrific beta to boot. Lastly, the title is taken from "The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser. Ten points to the readers who know how the quote and Our Professor are connected. ;) :)

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( For There is Nothing Lost but May Be Found )

Title: Like Sand Through Fingers
Author: xenadragon_xoxo
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 18,000~
Content/Warning(s): Language
Prompter/Prompt: No. 21 from suitesamba: Harry's been an Auror for five (or more) years when the new Director of the MLE reviews his files and realizes he never earned an O.W.L. in Potions. Harry is forced to go back to Hogwarts and take 7th year Potions - with Professor Snape. Snape can also be headmaster, or not, but I'd like to see grown-up Harry in class with Hogwarts' best 7th-year Potions students.
Summary: When the new Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement finds out that Harry never achieved an O.W.L. in Potions, she takes him off Auror duty and sends him back to Hogwarts to take Seventh year Potions. Harry thinks it can't get any worse, but then he finds out that the Potions teacher is still Snape.
A/N: Thank you so much to my beta for getting all this done despite having a last-minute life thing crop up! And thank you to the prompter for such an interesting prompt.

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(Like Sand Through Fingers)

Title: Severus Snape, and Horns, and Males, and Veelacorn Tails
Author: drwritermom
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: Teen and up
Word count: 2270
Content/Warning(s): Innuendo, implied mpreg
Prompter/Prompt: No. 18 from themightyflynn: Severus realised who his Veela (or whatever other creature) mate was the first time he and Harry met after Harry's twenty-first birthday. Now he just has to work out how to convince Harry that a relationship with him wouldn't be a bad thing.
Summary: Severus Snape makes his obligatory appearance at The Brat Who Slew Snakeface’s twenty-first birthday gala. Who knew that they were mythical equine creature soulmates? Watch the hooves fly as two Hogwarts residents reveal their secrets to the bewildered pair. And why is Albus in time out?
A/N: Any day that I can parade my favorite, homegrown mythical creature is a good day. I thank the clever prompter for this delightful prompt. And my profound thanks to badgerlady, for her beta generosity, and our swap moderators, for the work you do, corralling all this creativity. And Happy Winter to you all!

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( Severus Snape, and Horns, and Males, and Veelacorn Tails )

Title: your name, a pale ghost
Author: halbeshaus
Other pairings/threesome: none
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 12,000
Content/Warning(s): memory loss, implied/referenced violence, implied/referenced minor character death
Prompter/Prompt: No. 42 from pluperfectsunrise: In a world where Voldemort never existed, Severus never taught at Hogwarts. When they finally meet, Harry falls in love with him at first sight.
Summary: After an accident at work, vast swathes of Harry's memory are gone, but one seemingly inconsequential, fragmented memory haunts him. Three years ago in his mother's kitchen, he met Severus Snape.
A/N: A massive thanks to everyone who had to cope with the short-lived, but increasingly weird version of this fic that had a donkey as an integral character. May that draft never see the light of day. Thanks to Cithara for giving this a once-over.

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(your name, a pale ghost)

Title: I Saw Harry Kissing Santa Snape
Author: drwritermom
Other pairings/threesome: Ron Weasley/Hermione Granger
Rating: Teen and up
Word count: 1650
Content/Warning(s): Mild innuendo, possibly dangerous amounts of caffeine, fluff
Prompter/Prompt: No. 37 from maraudersaffair: After the war, Severus opens a bakery (or coffee shop) that goes all out for Christmas. Harry is a frequent, and smitten, customer.
Summary: Harry is addicted to the sublime signature brew at Prince’s Perfect Perks, the peppermint mocha. He is head over heels for the Slytherin sex icon brewmaster, Severus Snape. How will Harry snare his snarky Prince when he’s cut off from his favorite brew?
A/N: Many thanks to the prompter for this delicious prompt. Thanks to badgerlady, for her generosity, dredging through my digital chicken scratch and making it sing. And thanks to our moderators, who do a tremendous job, jingling those Snarry bells!

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( I Saw Harry Kissing Santa Snape )

Title: Bottled Thoughts
Author: sheankelor
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: PG-13
Word count: +/- 6.2K
Content/Warning(s): None
Prompter/Prompt: No. 44 from alisanne: Severus reluctantly agrees to attend The Weasley Christmas party with Harry, but he'll be damned if he doesn't take some of his homemade brandy to survive the evening. What happens when he's persuaded to ~share with other guests?
Summary: For seven years, whenever Severus went to the Weasleys for a birthday party, he watched the children and avoided the adults. This year, Harry convinces him to come for Christmas, he planned to do the same. His hostess gift changed that, and some honest - if inebriated - conversations flowed.
A/N: Thank you, my dear friend, who took the time out to beta this.

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( Bottled Thoughts )

Title: Perfect Life
Author: lilyseyes
Pairing: Severus Snape / Harry Potter
Word Count: 100
Rating : PG-13
Challenge: snarry100 686: History / 687: Close
Warnings: *AU, EWE, established relationship*
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.
Summary: After the Battle of Hogwarts, happiness has found Severus

Title: Dragons, Half-Goblins, and Soulmates, Oh My! (A barely-Snarry fairytale, narrated by the short attention span storyteller)
Author: drwritermom
Other pairings/threesome: James/Griphook, OMC/OM dragon (no slash)
Rating: Preteen and up
Word count: 4400
Content/Warning(s): Dragon mistreatment, Snarry innuendo, implied mpreg
Prompt: Wild card Number One, no prompt except this thought - What if Harry had a goblin half-brother. And Harry's father was this half-brother's Mother.
Summary: A very lonely, mistreated dragon unites two Potter half brothers, Harry and his younger, half-Goblin brother. Their friendship ultimately saves Magical Britain, with minimal casualties. Gather round as this storyteller tells the tale.
A/N: JKR owns everything but Petyr, who captured this writer's heart and refused to let it go. My thanks to the mods, of course, and special thanks to badgerlady, who selflessly edits the unbetaed works of this somewhat low self-esteem writer.

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( Dragons, Half-Goblins, and Soulmates, Oh My!  )

Title: Cutis Fame Morbus
Author: Lilian
Other pairings/threesome: Harry Potter/OFC
Rating: T
Word count: 12k
Content/Warning(s): Hurt/Comfort, mentions of vomiting, dub-con cuddling
Prompt: Wildcard.
Summary: Sometimes, redemption comes with the face of a deadly wizard-disease and its only cure: forced cuddling.
A/N: Enormous thank you for being my beta, hippocrates460, and thank you mods for organising this event! :)
Dear Reader, 1: hope you enjoy the fic, 2. please remember that this is fiction. If a real life forty-something tells you they are attracted to you while you are a minor, be sure to run the hell away.

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(Cutis Fame Morbus)

Title: head full of doubt
Author: bleedcolor
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: PG-13 - Maybe? I didn’t even use a swear word. How did that happen?
Word count: Approximately 11,000
Content/Warning(s): Brief mentions of suicide, nothing graphic.
Prompt: 79: A retelling of Beauty and the Beast but with Snarry. It would be interesting if Harry was the beast and Snape was beauty.
Summary: Severus spends his days methodically searching empty rooms, from the shadowy winding halls of the dungeon to the top of each spindly tower, and finds nothing more than the languishing splendor of places once well-loved, now abandoned to the vagaries of time and neglect.
A/N: So right around the time I should have been knuckling down on finishing this story, you know for deadline reasons, life got a little crazy, as it does. This fic wouldn’t have come to fruition without the cheerleading of ladyshadowphyre and strypgia, the wonderful mods for allowing me an extension, or the songs “Happier” by Marshmello and “Monster You Made Me” by Pop Evil on repeat. I think it went a little sideways from the prompt and doesn’t follow the traditional fairytale, but I feel like I could write this prompt again in at least 3 more ways, so if you don’t enjoy this version maybe I’ll revisit it some day. I’d certainly like to. Still, I hope you do enjoy it.

Title from “Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise” by The Avett Brothers.

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(head full of doubt)

Title: The Only Crime
Author: deirdre_aithne
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 3,478
Content/Warning(s): Gen/pre-slash
Prompt: 28. Familiar old trope: Snape is forced to serve several years in Azkaban for his role in the war. On his release, he struggles to care for himself on his own, partly out of pride but mostly because he has no choice. Finally, under an alias, he agrees to do something illegal for pay. The Aurors track him down, and the officer sent to arrest him (guess who) is confronted by a seriously ill, exhausted, furious and penniless Snape.
Summary: The plan was supposed to be simple. Offer the deal, make the arrest, and get another villain off the streets. That's was Robards' plan, anyway. So, of course, when it all goes wrong, it's Harry's job to clean up the mess.
A/N: Many thanks to P for the beta work on this, I appreciate it so much! Any remaining mistakes are entirely my own. The title is taken from the quote "All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride." - Sophocles, Antigone

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( The Only Crime )

Title: Boxing Day
Authors: Acid & Sinick
Reader: AnyaElizabeth
Cover Artist: Original Art from the fic by Acid & Sinick, adapted for cover art by anya_elizabeth
Other pairings/threesome:None
Rating: Teen and Up / PG-13
Content/Warning(s): PTSD, Hurt/Comfort, Post-War
Prompt: Wildcard 1
Length: 36:51 minutes
File Size: 33.7MB .mp3
Link to Text: Boxing Day at AO3
Summary: Harry doesn't need a Christmas present. He receives one anyway.
A/N: My first attempt at podfic or voice work of any kind, exciting and scary! I loved reading this story, especially because it threw some real challenges at me. It's intense and close-in on Harry's emotion and experience!
Mod Note: While the rest of the entries in the fest are anonymous, the nature of this contribution means that it is not.

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(Boxing Day)

Title: Him
Author: hdwriter
Other pairings/threesome: past Harry/Ginny
Rating: PG-13 (language/suggestion)
Word count: ~6800
Content/Warning(s): Non-magic AU
Prompt: AU: Narcissa Malfoy opens a matchmaking business. Her first client is the very high-profile, very rich, divorced father of three, Harry Potter. He comes with a ton of baggage and is in the closet. Her plans to match him with a quiet gay pillar of society is scuttled by the arrival of an old friend who is a famously queer artist: Severus Snape.
Summary: Narcissa Black Malfoy schemes to set up her old friend Severus Snape, a queer artist, with Harry Potter, a divorced father of three (and famous footballer), despite the fact that Harry hasn't quite come out of the closet yet and Severus has a messy history with Harry's parents.
A/N: I took a few liberties with Narcissa's original plans (there's no 'quiet, gay pillar of society'), but I hope this works, regardless. I had fun with the AU-ness and the overall idea. I enjoyed the prompt, though my focus might have been a bit different than you'd first suggested, Prompter. Hopefully, it will still do. :) Also, I greatly appreciate Badgerlady's help with the beta work and edits -- you and Torino are the best!

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( Him )

Title: Desire
Author: hippocrates460
Other pairings/threesome: None
Rating: T
Word count: 4130
Content/Warning(s): None
Prompt: Snape loses his voice from Nagini's attack. Harry really, really needs to have a few conversations with him to be able to move on and put the past behind them. There could be a Sign Language course involved.
Summary: The one that would have many comments about this being the second time Harry frees a snake from a glass cage, had it been written from Harry's perspective.
A/N: Thank you Lilian for everything, as always.

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( Desire )

Title: Party Kiss
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Severus Snape/Harry Potter.
Word Count: 1070
Warnings: None.
Summary: Severus and Harry relive holiday memories.
A/N: Written for adventdrabbles/' prompt # 26: Christmas baby, 27: tinsel, 28: snowball, 29: gift giving, 30: reindeer, and 31: kiss at midnight. This is part 25, and the finale, of my How Harry Claimed Severus series (LJ/IJ/DW).
This is also for the snowflake_challenge's Challenge #10. :)
Also? Happy Belated Birthday, Severus Snape! ♥
Beta(s): torino10154.
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

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Tags: alisanne, fic, rating: pg-13

Title: His Designated Visitor
Author: Overlocked
Other pairings/threesome: N/A
Rating: Teen
Word count: 3004
Content/Warning(s): Implied mass-child murders
Prompter/Prompt: No 15 from avioleta: Wartime fic. The war didn’t end with the Battle of Hogwarts. Now survivors are holed up at the school (or at Grimmauld Place, etc.) strategizing on how to end things once and for all. Snape is there recovering and Harry finds himself spending more and more time seeking out the man’s company. Merlin knows why.
Summary: The war rages on and in the confines of Grimmauld Place Harry finds himself wishing Snape back to health.
A/N: I had to rewrite this story six times before I was satisfied – I had a hard time implying that there was a war going on from the perspective of someone who was not involved and effectively hiding in his room. I deliberately kept things vague so that the reader can impose their own interpretation in places. Happy Snarry Swap!

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( His Designated Visitor )

Title: Campfire Confessions
Author: drwritermom
Other pairings/threesomes: Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger, Horace Slughorn/Mystery Action Heroes
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1337
Warnings: Sexual innuendo
Prompter/Prompt: No. 2 from accioslash: New professor Harry Potter attends an educational conference with his former professors/now colleagues and makes some surprising discoveries.
Summary: The Hogwarts faculty are on their annual summer educational retreat. As a team building exercise, the staff is encouraged to share a hidden talent, ability or hobby. Things go to Hades in a handbasket. Enjoy!
A/N: To my giftee, the author of this clever prompt, I tried to incorporate a number of your requests. I hope you enjoy my offering!

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( Campfire Confessions )