Severus Snape

Name:	Severus Snape
Occupation:	Hogwarts professor, double agent
Title/Rank:	Potions Master, Slytherin Head of House
Location:	Hogwarts (Britain)
Status:	half-blood; deceased
Relationships:	Dumbledore (professional/paternal) Lily Evans Potter (friendship, unrequited love)
Fandom:	Harry Potter
Other:	born 9 January 1960 Severus Snape, art by Bohemian Weasel
Click here for related articles on Fanlore.

Severus Snape is the potions master at Hogwarts and one of Harry Potter's teachers in the Harry Potter books. He has been a somewhat contentious fan-favorite since the first book was published. Although Harry was always hostile to him within the books, fan speculation on Snape's true loyalties was rampant and occasioned many theories, fanworks, and flame wars.

In later books, as Snape's difficult childhood and adolescence became canon, some fans aligned themselves against characters who were hostile to Snape in canon, like James Potter. The penultimate book left Snape's status extremely unclear, and some theorists felt that the final book did not live up to their hopes. (See also EWE and Potterdämmerung.)

Tropes

Although Snape's attractiveness is described very negatively in the book, he was often perceived as having a certain sexual magnetism, by fans.

Shipping

The main Snape ships are somewhat controversial--Harry/Snape and Snape/Hermione, both pairings with a significant age difference. Some fans enjoy these pairings only when the younger party had graduated, or grown older, whereas other fans explored the pairing during the time-period depicted in the books. (See also chan.)

It is also common to pair Snape with characters from the Marauders' generation, such as with Lily Evans, whom he was canonically in love with, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, or James Potter.

Notable Snape-centric Fanworks

Fanfiction

• Blood Magic by Gateway Girl (Gen)
• The Other Side of Darkness by Abby (Snape/Hermione)
• Snape: The Home Fries Nazi by Pir8fancier (Snape/Harry)
• The Tea Series by Telanu (Snape/Harry)
• Tyger! Tyger! by Bloodcult of Freud (Snape/Hermione)

Fanart

• Erised by Sakata
• Hogwart's Staff on Holiday by ildi
• More Gently the Second Time by Rex Luscus NOT WORK SAFE
• Professor Snape by BlackMe
• Severus Snape, Sex God by chicxulub

Fanvids

• In Exchange For Your Tomorrows by lim
• Maneater by jarrow, a crackalicious Snarry vid

Essays and Meta

• The Union of the Snake by arionrhod at idol_reflection

Snape-centric Communities

• SnapeNews - a LiveJournal newsletter for anything and everything to do with Severus Snape
• Snapecast - "the only podcast that is guaranteed all Snape, all the time," and the affiliated convention, Snapefest

LiveJournal Communities

• bottomsnape (also on IJ) - bottom!Snape fanworks
• do_me_profsnape - "anything goes," but especially adult fanworks
• prof_snape - anything Snape related
• snape_fic - any Snape fanfic
• snape_rarepairs - fanworks with rare Snape pairings
• snape_the_hbp - post-Half-Blood Prince Snape fanworks
• snapesupport - Snape writers' support group
• sufferingsev - Snape Hurt/Comfort fanworks

Challenges

• The Severitus Challenge - posited a father/son relationship between Snape and Harry, and spawned the Severitus genre of HP fanworks
• Severus Big Bang (on LJ) - a Big Bang for Snape's 50th birthday
• Severus' Shorts (on LJ) - "ficlet and drabble party" for Snape's 50th birthday
• Severus Snape Fuh-Q-Fest (website) - the first Fuh-Q-Fest in Harry Potter fandom, ran 2002-2003
• Snape After Deathly Hallows Fest (on LJ, on IJ) - for exploring new information about Snape's character from Deathly Hallows
• Snape Showcase (on LJ) - anonymous fest to celebrate Snape "throughout his ages"
• Snapely Holidays (on IJ) - holiday Snape art and fic exchange

Archives

• Potions and Snitches (website, LJ comm) - Snape and Harry gen relationships
• Snape Slash Fleet (index) - index of Snape slash pairings archives
• Snape Mpreg Archive (via Wayback) - Snape mpreg