After the Battle of Hogwarts, Snape walks free and promptly vanishes from Wizarding society. Six years pass, and when he shows his face again, a romantically disillusioned and inebriated Harry hits him up for a friends-with-benefits arrangement. Their liaison works surprisingly well until Harry's reckless behaviour as an Auror leads to unethical practices and personal calamity.

Minerva McGonagall has outlived most of her contemporaries and resides in peaceful retirement on a Scottish hillside. Aware that her life is nearing its end, she agrees to share her memories with a sympathetic biographer. This means facing a period of her life she has chosen to forget: that terrible year under Headmaster Snape and the truth about what happened between them.

If Snape is the tempter, the serpent in the garden seducing Harry away from his family, then what is Al? His father's rival, or the only one strong enough to save him? But as Al will find out, you can't save everyone. Sometimes you have to choose - and sometimes magic chooses for you.

Harry's love life has been dismal, and he finds himself checking into a therapeutic massage clinic just to get off - the same clinic to which Snape had been delivered three years earlier for physical therapy.

Severus still suffers the after-effects of Nagini's venom, especially in winter. Harry knows just how to warm him up.

Severus creates a prison of his own making, and the stars bear witness to it. He cannot speak of love, but as always in his life it becomes the key to both freedom and death.

"I have complete faith in you, m'boy. In your judgement." The blue eyes blazed awake for a startling second. "Just get him." Contrary to Harry's expectations, finding Snape isn't the problem; figuring out the definition of 'get' is.

Ab has never been fond of his brother's protégés, but he's always had a weakness for goats. He's not entirely sure what to make of Severus Snape.

His son may have found the garden, but Harry's the one who keeps going back.

It's one thing to deny oneself; it's another to be denied. In which Albus learns again that sins of omission have consequences, even unto the next generation; and that what he denied to Severus shall be visited upon Harry. May be disturbing; please read the author's note for content warnings.

Albus Dumbledore never makes the same mistake twice. Certainly not in love.

Harry's haunted by guilt. Snape's warded by roses. Each must free the other in order to free himself.

One day, comfortably set up in the afterlife, Lily Evans Potter switches on the telly and gets hooked on the Harry Potter show.

Severus finds it hard to let go.

There's a Boy Who Lived and a boy who didn't, and even a mother can't always tell them apart.