When 13 year old Harry Potter is diagnosed with a serious illness, dark secrets come to light. With no safe place to call home for the summer, he is entrusted into the care of one Severus Snape. But with a boy on the verge of a breakdown, and a potions master still harbouring a school-day grudge, will they be able to put aside their differences and learn to trust in each other?

DISCONTINUED What if Harry had been saved from the Dursleys By Snape? Was he the hero or the villain? NOT SNARRY EW I DONT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS. ALL RIGHTS GO TO JK ROWLING. I DONT GET ANYTHING FOR WRITING THSES JUST THE THRILL OF THE COMMENTS AND THE VOTES

Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived. How Severus Snape hated him. Always showing off, too much like Potter. Why can't Severus find an inkling of Lily in him? Pompous, a brat, and adored by his fans. But when Harry Potter faints in the middle of his assigned detention and Snape finds out that the boy had cancer, everything changes in the blink of an eye.

11 yr old Harry misses the Hogwarts Express. Snape is sent to find out why. What he finds changes any preconceived notions he might have had about the Boy-Who-Lived. AU, manipulative!Dumbledore, DE's, Voldy, but no horcruxes.

Harry's ready to leave his relatives and go back to Hogwarts for his second year. When the wizarding world discovers how the Dursley's have been treating him though, there is only one solution. The question is who will take the young wizard in? **Heavily based off of the books** *Contains both abuse and spanking of preteens/teens*