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It’s 1985, and Severus Snape is bracing for another year of teaching and dodging staffroom chatter — until Pomona Sprout arrives, dragging sunlight, soil, and emotional chaos into his carefully guarded life. 🌱
Their grumpy/sunshine friendship blossoms into something deeper, as love, magic, and emotional healing weave through the quiet corners of the castle. ✨
Snape thought love was behind him — it wasn’t. As he and Sprout navigate post-war trauma and meet the Boy Who Lived, Snape confronts his past to forge a new bond with young Harry Potter. The prequel ends just before the boy turns eleven…
Note: canon-divergent Pomona Sprout! She’s three years younger than Snape in this story. I know it’s an unusual pairing. Please give it a chance 🌱🖤🧪
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It’s 1977, and Severus Snape has started his final year as a Hogwarts student. The announcement of the revival of the Triwizard Tournament and the inclusion of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft & Wizardry throws all his plans for the year into disarray as he puts his name in the Goblet of Fire for a chance at
eternal glorymoney, and meets a kindred spirit from across the pond who just might change his life forever.Note: canon-divergent Pomona Sprout! She’s one year younger than Snape in this story, FYI. I know it’s an unusual pairing. Give it a chance 🌱🖤🧪
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The second time Severus met Kasimir, the man was wearing a dress.
Severus didn’t recognize him initially as he entered the Hog’s Head—the willowy youth had let his hair down from the messy pile usually stacked on top of his head, secured in a bun. Instead, it spilled over his shoulders in smooth waves. He’d also shaved the ever-present stubble from his face and wasn’t wearing his reading glasses, on his face or perched atop his head.
And he was wearing a dress, of course.
It fit him well. Long-sleeved with a high neck, a loose fit skirt that fell to the knees, it wasn’t a particularly enticing ensemble.
(not that Severus was evaluating it thusly; it was merely an objective, distant observation, disentangled from subjective preference because Severus Snape didn’t have a preference, subjective or otherwise, for men in dresses)
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Twenty-three year old Severus makes a friend and falls in love. Learns to love himself a bit. Puts on a strand of pretty, pretty pearls. Takes place over three years.Series
- Part 1 of Pearlescence
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07 Oct 2025
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“Glassy eyes snapped into focus for the singular purpose of glaring at Severus.”
💀“Severus felt he deserved a fucking Order of Merlin.”
Yeah he does 😅“Should I add capable of fucking knowledge of Arithmancy concepts out of people to my curriculum vitae, you think?”
💀“…now his skin glowed, a thin sheen of evaporating sweat making him dewy, like he’d been painted into Severus’ life in watercolor. Severus, a muddy blur, all bleeding edges and contrasting colors that ran together on soaked, disintegrating paper. Kasimir, softly rendered washes and delicately lined in dry brush, slowly, surely, clearing the waters between them, lifting the stain from the page as he crept ever closer, revealing the under sketch that lurked beneath, obscured for all these years.”
Yessssssssssssssssssssssss. The level of perfect accurate technical detail without derailing the sentiment just kills me here.NLB rec 🖤
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Severus blinked at his fingernails, realizing that when he’d made this promise to Dumbledore, he didn’t think he’d live very long, not even to middle-age. At the time, he hadn’t even wanted to live to his next birthday, but now…at the far end of the hall, through his tented fingers, Severus watched Kasimir stroll into the Great Hall, wand between his teeth, tying his long hair up in a messy bun as he walked—and Severus realized he no longer wanted to die young. When had that happened? And what did that mean for him? For him and for Kasimir? For Albus? And for Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived?
A sequel to Perfect Poison Pearl, taking place during the books.
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- Part 2 of Pearlescence
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In the sixth year of the war, as the Golden Trio races against time to find the final Horcrux, Nagini, Draco Malfoy has become something unrecognizable. His magic has grown darker and more powerful than anyone imagined, elevating him among the highest ranks of the Death Eaters with terrifying skill in Legilimency.
When Draco plucks a single word from a dying Order member's mind—Horcruxes—the Order is desperate to silence him. As they debate his fate, Hermione Granger discovers a chain of secrets her fallen friend died protecting. She makes an impossible choice: Reach Malfoy first and offer him a bargain.
Trading secrets in shadow, a dangerous game begins between enemies. As their dance of intellect and suspicion deepens, the real threat emerges. It was never about what Malfoy could tell Voldemort—but what Voldemort had already stolen from him.Bookmarked by the_leapling
20 Aug 2025
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Apparently I’m a Dramione fan, now. Thanks Bukessi!
The writing is SO compelling. Setting, drama, internal thought process. Literally everything about the Malfoys.
B writes women SO WELL. (Think they might actually *be* Narcissa Malfoy.) But gets Hermione, McGonagall — everyone.“I have seen you come home with men’s blood on your cuffs, their borrowed thoughts trailing behind you. You dust them off in the conservatory while sipping tea.” 🖤
Come back to Ch. 5
Look forward to Cokeworth in Ch. 7! -
All Those Ilyichs | In which Tom reads Tolstoy. by aphry0d1e
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Aug 2025
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"Death is finished, it is no more."
Tom was silent. Then, his lips curled. Head tilted back. Eyes to the vaulted ceiling as if some invisible audience hovered above.
And then—he laughed.
Loud. Sardonic. The kind of laughter that rang hollow and full all at once, built from something sharp and joyless. Madam Pince looked up from her dog-eared Witch Weekly, brows pinched. Tom didn’t notice. Or didn’t care.
The bouts came in steepled waves, each one louder, stranger than the last. Not mirthful, not mad—just cold.
“Finished?” he muttered between breaths, amusement dragging across his voice like a dull blade. “That’s all it took to die well?”
He slammed the book shut.
In which Tom Riddle's voracious appetite for knowledge brings him to Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" | Tom Riddle ponders (painfully and obsessively) over muggle philosophy and literature.
Bookmarked by the_leapling
20 Aug 2025
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Omg yesssss.
Riddle.
Tolstoy.
Obsession.
Brilliant character study.
What could be better?
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1981 is a year of great change in the Wizarding World. But before that fateful Halloween, Hogwarts undergoes a sweeping change of its own. Severus Snape, a fresh 21 and now a turncoat, begins what will eventually be a long teaching career.
Everyone starts somewhere, but not everyone starts off well.Bookmarked by the_leapling
16 Sep 2025
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Snape Snape Severus Snape
Just trying to survive his first year of teaching at Hogwarts.
Character interactions are perfect.
Staff meetings are amazing — want to explore this.
Botanical mystery that will eat my brain until the end of time. Or until I’m clever enough to figure it out. Orrr until story is updated lol
Need more Sprout. That is all.(Come back to ch. 20)