I asked, and now you may enjoy the bounty. Painless_j's picks for Harry/Snape.

[icarus]

I asked, and now you may enjoy the bounty.

I asked painless_j what she thought were the must-reads of the Harry Potter fandom. She felt only qualified to pick the Harry/Snape and Harry/Draco pairings.

So, drumroll please... for Harry/Snape.

Snarry, long.

Civil War series, by Sushi
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewseries.php?seriesid=3

Cambiare Podentes: Invocare, by Jordan Grant
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewuser.php?uid=1073

If You Are Prepared, by Cybele
http://www.swish-n-flick.netfirms.com/images/coverpages/iyap_cover.htm

The Mirror of Maybe, by Midnight Blue (gah! but it's a fic that everybody read)
http://www.greyblue.net/MidnightBlue/story.php?storyid=2

A Nick In Time and sequel, Growing Pains, by Tira Nog
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=799
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=80&warning=4

The Same Coin, by Meri
http://solo4.abac.com/CircuitArchive/TheSameCoin.html

Sanguis-Vinculum, by Meri
http://solo4.abac.com/CircuitArchive/SanguisVinculum.htm

Tea Series, by Telanu
http://telanu.thirteenblackbirds.net/

Medium-length

Absolution, by Rushlight
http://slashcity.org/rushlight/hp/absolution.htm

Clipped Wings, by Teka Lynn
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=100

Consanguinity Arc, by Jay Tryfanstone
http://tryfanstone.co.uk/warning.htm

Contemporary Magical Innovations, by H. Granger, by Kai
http://www.squidge.org/~kali/hp/cmi.html

The Courtship of Harry Potter, by Diana Williams
http://diana.slashcity.com/Potter/courtship.htm

The Dreaming Spires, by DementorDelta
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=4559

Hall of the Mountain Kings, by Tara Tory
http://inkstain.inkquill.net/isf/archive/12/hallof.html

A Life More Ordinary, by Lexin
http://inkstain.inkquill.net/isf/archive/5/alife.html

Parseltongue-tied, by DementorDelta
http://www.skyehawke.com/archive/story.php?no=386

Snape: The Home Fries Nazi, by Pir8fancier
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=12372

So Lonely Without Me, by Calligraphy
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=5658

Shortish

The Care Of Infants, by Perfica (Stellahobbit)
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=2228

The Challenge, by Cybele
http://www.swish-n-flick.netfirms.com/stories/thechallenge.htm

The Cure, by Nimori
http://www.the-archive.net/viewstory.php?sid=55

Disarmed and The Key to the Kingdom, by Luthien
http://luthien.ebonyx.org/docs/fic/disarmed.html
http://luthien.ebonyx.org/docs/fic/key.html

Edited, by Predatrix
http://predatrix.slashcity.org/fiction/edited.htm

The Familiar, by Resonant
http://trickster.org/res/familiar.html

Fly-fishing for Beginners, by Jay Tryfanstone
http://tryfanstone.co.uk/warning.htm

Fool, by Kass
http://www.trickster.org/kass/fool.html

The Life Debt, by Rushlight
http://www.slashcity.org/rushlight/hp/lifedebt.htm

The Love Song of Bastard and Idiot, by Predatrix
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=151&warning=4

Comments

[blue-underwing.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the list! I'm still feeling rather new the HP fic (even after more than half a year) so I really appreciate lists like this. ^_^

I'm have pretty much the same reaction as a couple people up stream: I love half of them and hate the others. Actually, it's more I stopped reading half of them when I determined they were running in the direction of my squicks (a policy I wish everyone would follow) but all the ones I finished, I loved to bits. I'd say that makes it a very good list indeed.

Now off to explore the ones I haven't read.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Marvelous. I have the Harry/Draco list to post this weekend. *nods*

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

a policy I wish everyone would follow

Heh. Guilty as charged. I read Cambiare all the way through, even though it horrified me. (Please note: I did not comment/email the author re: my aversion.) Egad. Squick city. (And not just the rape squick; it also hit my "awful characterisation" squick bang on the head.)

Given that, it seems a little... specialised in its following, to me, to qualify as the "HP/SS Canon". But maybe it is, and I just don't know all those people who love it?

Eh. (Was very surprised to see "The Fourth Year" wasn't on there, though! And "Courage Under Fire"!)