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Right, I have decided to give up fanfiction. I really don't have a definitive reason other than it feels like the right thing to do. So, I am going to post the fanfc ideas that I will never finish. 

Number One: A young!Hogwarts-age!Severus:

Notes:

Summary: Ten-year-old Severus Bertram Snape and his mother move to Diagon Alley when Eileen Snape hears that Tobias Snape has been released from jail. She gets a job in the Black Widow Bookstore and is allowed to live in the storage room in the back for 2 Galleons a week. She earns 30 Galleons a month, which is really around 20 or 22 after she pays her rent. The owner lives in the flat above the shop. Severus spends his day running around the alley with the urchins and reading spell books from the store.

Background: Tobias Snape leaves when Severus is three after his first display of accidental magic. He returns for a month when Severus is six, spends the time using all the money Eileen made on beer and hitting Eileen when he was drunk. He left when the money ran out and stayed away for another three years, returning for two weeks when Severus is nine, spending all the money and hitting Eileen. Story starts in July of 1966. Severus was ten years old on January 9^th, 1966.

1967-1968 – Snape’s First year, Bellatrix Lestrange’s Fifth (she’s a prefect)

1968-1969 – Snape’s second year

1969-1970 – Snape third year

1970-1971 – Snape’s fourth year

1971-1972 – Snape’s fifth year

1972-1973 – Snape’s sixth year

1973-1974 – Snape seventh year

1974-1979 – Potions apprentice

1979 – Joins Voldemort

1981 – Becomes a double agent, gets Potions position at Hogwarts

Physical Appearance:

Severus is small for his age at four feet, four inches tall. He weighs 67 pounds. His black hair is greasy because he doesn’t get a chance to bathe often and it is to his shoulders because that is how his friends have it. His nose is hooked because it was broken when he was six by his father and not treated properly. His clothes are worn and patched and he only wears shoes in the winter time.

School:

Sorted into Slytherin, best at Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Charms, above average at Herbology and Astronomy, average at History, not so good at Transfiguration. He chooses Latin and Dueling as his electives.

Potions – Professor Horace Slughorn

DADA – Professor Daniel Wilkes, first year, study Dark Curses

Charms – Professor Filius Flitwick

Herbology – Professor Pomona Sprout

Astronomy – Professor Marie Nettles

History – Professor William Binns

Transfiguration – Professor Minerva McGonagall

Latin – Professor Filius Flitwick

Dueling – Professor Filius Flitwick
Outline:

Chapter 1 – July, 1966: Eileen and Severus move to Knockturn Alley. They meet Mrs. Sadie Arachne, the owner of the bookshop, their second day there. Mrs. Arachne offers Eileen a job, which she accepts. Chapter ends with: Eileen has a nightmare about Tobias and Severus comforts her.

Chapter 2 – July, 1966: Severus meets some of the Knockturn Alley urchins, makes some friends (John, Malcolm, Davis, and Weston) and some enemies (Frank, Eustace, Cornelius). He gets into a fight with the enemies and is saved by the friends. Chapter ends with: Severus resolves to learn as many hexes, jinxes, and curses as he can so he’ll never get hurt again or have to let the people he loved get hurt (i.e. his mother).

Chapter 3 – Early August: Severus steals his mother’s wand and sneaks into an alleyway to practice spells at night. One night, after about a week of doing this, he gets careless and is caught by his mother. She is angry and worries that he could have been killed either by a backfired spell or by a resident of Knockturn Alley who wanted to rob him or rape him. She punishes him and makes him promise to never touch her wand again. He does so but only if she promises to buy him a wand for his eleventh birthday, which she does. Chapter ends with: Severus smarting from his punishment and thinking that even though he can’t practice magic, he can still learn it.

Chapter 4 – August-November: Severus discovers an advanced Potions book in the shop. His interest is sparked and he gets a job at the apothecary to earn money to buy a beginning potions book from Flourish and Blotts. The book costs 5 Galleons or 85 Sickles. He is paid 10 Sickles a week. The apothecarist, Mr. Jenkins, also teaches Severus about Potions and how to properly handle and use the ingredients. Mr. Jenkins gives Severus an old Potions book as a gift for his hard work. Chapter ends with: Severus decides he wants to make potions for a living.

Chapter 5 – December: Severus decides to buy his mother a nice set of robes for Christmas. Robes cost 10 Galleons or 170 Sickles. He has 180 Sickles saved. He goes to buy the robes, but they refuse to serve him because of his urchin-like appearance. Feeling dejected, he heads back to Knockturn Alley. On his way back to his home, he is robbed by a grown, drunk wizard. He loses all the money he worked so hard for. When he tells Mr. Jenkins what happened, the man tells him that he will help him make a potion for his mother’s Christmas present and will not charge him for the ingredients used. Severus makes her a Strengthening Solution. Christmas presents he receives: a money-pouch from Mr. Jenkins and a Crup puppy from Eileen. He names the Crup Daisy because the daisy flower is used as a basis for all healing potions. Chapter ends with: Severus and Eileen sitting happily together enjoying each other’s company.

Chapter 6 – January: Severus’ 11^th birthday. Mr. Jenkins gives him a book on Herbology. Eileen takes him to buy his wand. His wand is made of Silver Birch, dragon heartstring core, 10 and ¼ inches. He immediately begins practicing the hexes and curses that he has read about, hiding in a corner near the pub and hexing unsuspecting drunks.

Idea Number 2:

Dumbledore sends Harry a letter one week after he arrives back at Privet Drive. He offers to take Harry to a place where he can train to defeat Voldemort. Harry accepts and he is whisked away to a place simply known as Acropolis.

Trainers

Brutus – physical

Oliver – archery, horse riding, flying, etc

Adonis – Spells, Magical theory, history, etc

Aretha – Healing

Caelan – Tracking, hunting, stealth, etc

Polycarp (Poly) – Meditation

Schedule:

5:00AM-6:00AM Poly

6:00AM-7:00AM free

7:00AM-9:00AM Brutus

9:00AM-11:00AM Adonis

11:00AM-1:00PM free

1:00PM-3:00PM Oliver

3:00PM-5:00PM Caelan

5:00PM-5:30PM free

5:30PM-7:30PM Aretha

7:30PM-9:00PM free

9:00PM-11:00PM Poly

11:00PM-5:00AM free

Other people

Maximus – the groundskeeper, has a dog named Fido

Finny – Head House-elf

Joosie – Head House-elf of Kitchens

Martha – Keeper of Books

Chapter One: The Question

The smallest bedroom of number four, Privet Drive was only in use two months out the year. When it was in use, the room was the typical mess of a teenage boy, which was perfectly natural, seeing as its occupant was a teenage boy. The teenage boy however was far from typical, no matter what his room might say.

The teenage boy that occupied the smallest room of number four, Privet Drive, was none other than fifteen-year-old Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived. Harry had been orphaned at the age of one by the dark lord Voldemort. The dark lord had tried to murder Harry as well, but the curse didn’t work due to his mother’s love. Voldemort was severely weakened and disappeared. Thirteen years later he returned again, using an ancient ritual that Harry had been forced to be a part of. Harry had dueled with Voldemort after the wizard had regained his body, and had barely gotten away. Just a few weeks ago, Harry had dueled with the dark wizard again, only winning because Dumbledore had stepped in and dueled with his former student.

Now Harry was once again at his relatives’ house, where he had lived since his parents had been murdered. It had been a week since the Hogwarts Express had arrived at King’s Cross and he was already itching to leave and join his friends at the Burrow. He lay on his bed, staring blankly at the white boring ceiling, his thoughts far away in London at the Department of Mysteries.

Idea Number 3: AU 5th year (mainly I just like how I started the fic. The idea isn't very original.)

Summary: On his fifteenth birthday, as per instructions in his father’s will, Harry James Potter comes into his inheritance. He inherits Potter’s Place, the ancestral home of the Potters, and number seventeen, Leonis Lane in Godric’s Hollow; the house they were staying in when they were attacked. He also inherits G50,000, James’ old dueling robes and a few other articles of clothing, a three-lock trunk that holds potion ingredients, books, and a small dueling room, and their school trunks. Tonks and Lupin go with him to claim the inheritance. The Potter family house-elf was sold by the Ministry of Magic when the last adult Potter died. The owners refuse to sell Harry the original house-elf, but they are willing to sell him the house-elf’s son, who is called Sprout, for G300.

The  summer had been a hot one. It hadn’t rained for almost two months and the residents of Privet Drive were getting frustrated with their brown, dead grass and the ban on hosepipes. All the adults spent their days indoors with the fans running while the teenagers spent their time at the Little Whinging Club pool and the little children ran around the park all day, not caring the least about the heat.

There was one teenager who didn’t spend his time at the pool. For one reason he didn’t have a membership, and two, he didn’t even know how to swim. The boy’s name was Harry Potter and he was considered a hoodlum by the inhabitants of Little Whinging. They disagreed with his ratty, baggy clothes, his untamable hair, and his scarred forehead. However, it was the scar on his forehead that made him very special in his world. Harry Potter was a wizard; and not just any wizard, but a famous one. When he was only a year old, his home was attacked by the Dark Lord Voldemort.

Voldemort had killed his parents and then had tried to kill him, but couldn’t. Voldemort’s spirit had been torn from his body and he had wandered in the wilderness for thirteen years, inhabiting the bodies of snakes and other animals until one of his servants came to help him. He regained his body only one month previous using an old, forbidden ritual that had been created by a necromancer during the Dark Ages. Bone of the father. Blood of the enemy. Flesh of the servant. Voldemort was mortal once again and determined to finish what he had started.

Harry Potter spent his days wandering around Little Whinging ignoring the dirty looks and mutterings of the Muggles who thought badly of him. He wandered around, digging through trashcans for pages of old newspapers and listening to the rumors spread by people at the local pub.

Idea Number 4: AU Snape growing up

Summary: Eileen Prince had an affair with a lesser pureblood, Gregory Hayes. She becomes pregnant. When the boy is born, her family takes her son from her and casts her out of the family. Her son is named Thaddeus Prince. Thaddeus grows up hearing about his mother, a witch gone wrong, and how good his Uncle Harper is to raise his sister’s mistake. On his seventeenth birthday he goes to visit his mother. He finds her living in a squalid home with a Muggle husband. He also sees their son, Severus Snape, his half-brother, six-years-old, and his heart goes out to the boy. He takes him away from his filthy, abusive lifestyle and raises him to be a proper pureblood.

Idea Number 5: Harry is sent back to the founders' time, but instead of being raised by one of the founders, he is taken in by the Bloody Baron, who I named Baron William Morrow. I also made him the Potions Master, but you don't have to.

 

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