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* BroughtDownToNormal: All of Severus' skill in dueling, in alchemy, even in brewing potions, is useless when [[spoiler: he loses his right hand; he hasn't trained in off-hand nor wandless casting]].
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* AbusiveParents: Tobias and Eileen Snape get screen time. Eileen is grossly neglectful, only reacting to Severus' return at the end of the school year by criticising him for not knocking (and she's perpetually drunk). Tobias attacks both Severus and Lily. However, both of them later find a measure of conciliation with Severus.
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** Tobias and Eileen Snape get screen time. Eileen is grossly neglectful, only reacting to Severus' return at the end of the school year by criticising him for not knocking (and she's perpetually drunk). Tobias attacks both Severus and Lily. However, both of them later find a measure of conciliation withSeverus.Severus.
** Barty Crouch Sr is not physically violent, but is unreasonably perfectionist and intolerant, putting his son under more pressure than he can handle and driving him toward rebellion.
** Tobias and Eileen Snape get screen time. Eileen is grossly neglectful, only reacting to Severus' return at the end of the school year by criticising him for not knocking (and she's perpetually drunk). Tobias attacks both Severus and Lily. However, both of them later find a measure of conciliation with
** Barty Crouch Sr is not physically violent, but is unreasonably perfectionist and intolerant, putting his son under more pressure than he can handle and driving him toward rebellion.
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* NotSoDifferent: Severus is given some of Albus' own memories to take to the past, and as a result, he learns about the champion of the Light's own regrets, his flirtation with darkness and culpability for his sister's death. This is implied to be a deliberate move on the future Dumbledore's part, to facilitate trust and cooperation between them.
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* PartingWordsRegret: As per his canon motivation, Dumbledore wants to cleanse the Ring Horcrux without destroying the Resurrection Stone attached to it, so that he can apologise to his sister and parents. [[spoiler: When he succeeds, he learns that it was his own curse, in the fateful duel, that struck Ariana down, as he had always feared; yet still, the opportunity for closure brings him some peace.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: Severus has always made it clear that he would die to keep Lily alive. [[spoiler: When Voldemort is using the [[MindControl Imperius Curse]] to make him kill her, Severus [[HeroicWillpower resists just long enough]] to cut off his own wand hand to stop it from happening.]]
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* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: Inverted; Severus is at last getting a chance to make those memories, after having seen what would happen without them.
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* DramaticIrony: After all that Severus has done for the school, James Potter arranges for him to anonymously receive new school robes for his graduation (since Severus' robes were thin and full of patches). When he works out who sent them, Severus is resentful of accepting a gift from his old enemy, but restrains himself from lashing out for Lily's sake. Instead, after graduation, he sells the robes to a second hand store and uses the proceeds to buy ingredients for Lily's contraceptive potion.
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* DramaticIrony: After all that Severus has done for the school, James Potter arranges for him to anonymously receive new school robes for his graduation (since Severus' robes were thin and full of patches). When he works out who sent them, Severus is resentful of accepting a gift from his old enemy, but restrains himself from lashing out for Lily's sake. Instead, after graduation, he sells the robes to a second hand store and uses the proceeds to buy ingredients for Lily's contraceptive potion.potion (which doubles as BestServedCold).
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* DramaticIrony: After all that Severus has done for the school, James Potter arranges for him to anonymously receive new school robes for his graduation (since Severus' robes were thin and full of patches). When he works out who sent them, Severus is resentful of accepting a gift from his old enemy, but restrains himself from lashing out for Lily's sake. Instead, after graduation, he sells the robes to a second hand store and uses the proceeds to buy ingredients for Lily's contraceptive potion.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Snape's first life, in canon, ended with him losing everything, not even being able to keep Harry alive, despite all his efforts and all his suffering. In his second try, he is able to find happiness with Lily, although he faces many new hardships along the way, from the opposition of her friends and family, to the hostility of the Death Eaters whom he didn't join this time, [[spoiler:and even the loss of his wand hand]]. At one point, he even [[spoiler: is able to tell Lily about his first life, deepening their friendship and assuring her of the strength of his feelings for her, but then he later has to erase those memories for her safety, setting them back to almost square one]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Snape's first life, in canon, ended with him losing everything, not even being able to keep Harry alive, despite all his efforts and all his suffering. In his second try, he is able to find happiness with Lily, although he faces many new hardships along the way, from the opposition of her friends and family, to the hostility of the Death Eaters whom he didn't join this time, [[spoiler:and even the loss of his wand hand]]. At one point, he even [[spoiler: is able to tell Lily about his first life, deepening their friendship and assuring her of the strength of his feelings for her, but then he later has to erase those memories for her safety, setting them back to almost square one]]. In the end, though, he's happier than he has ever been.
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* UnableToSupportAWife: Despite wanting her, Severus is more reluctant to marry than Lily is, because he has no home or employment or savings. He does have good employment prospects for the future, at least.
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His life had been a mockery, so too his death it seemed. For what kind of twisted humour would force Severus Snape to relive his greatest regret? To return him to the point in his life where the only person that ever mattered in his life had already turned away.
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Lily herself doesn't let this influence her thinking much, although she can't help but feel the crimp when [[spoiler: her father passes away, leaving her with only a house that she has to sell to clear the mortgage, and she and Severus start out so poor that they decide against even attending a cinema together]]. Severus, however, is perfectly aware that in another lifetime she married James Potter and would never have had to worry about money again. Still, he has good prospects for future income [[spoiler: until he loses his right hand]].
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* WeaponOfXSlaying: Since alchemical focus stones are intimately connected with memories, Severus tries making one using the memory of his own death and his brief glimpse of afterlife. The resulting stone becomes a connection between life and death, which can [[spoiler: give ghosts temporary corporeality]], and kill [[spoiler: Horcruxes.]]
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* IHaveYourWife: Severus was never going to be able to resist following Lily into a trap. [[spoiler: He does assist her escape, though at a heavy cost to himself; he loses his wand hand and Voldemort becomes aware that he has future knowledge.]]
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* IAmNotMyFather: Severus struggles to persuade Lily's father of this, especially since he knows that he actually made every mistake and more than his abusive father did. He's only learned better by hard experience, which he can't share with unprotected minds.
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* TheChessmaster: Dumbledore already was this in canon, but his game is greatly improved by the delivery of Severus' memories of his first life, allowing him to plan a different path for the war. However, he still has to decide when to let people die vs when to intervene.
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* GuileHero: Although he retains most of his adult dueling skill, Severus uses it only sparingly and surgically, and isn't recruited for the front lines of the war.
** He initiates a reform of Slytherin House by demonstrating his superior skill over the upper years, then using that to pressure the Prefects into doing their jobs and protecting every House member. This brings about greatly improved unity and garners widespread support and admiration from the younger years. Once his policies start producing results, rescuing several younger students from tight spots, he declares independence from the Death Eaters, shocking the House but retaining many followers and giving many others a feasible way to stay neutral.
** Severus becomes aware of the Diary horcrux as soon as [[spoiler: cockerels start dying]]. However, he and Dumbledore decide to bide their time, rather than make an immediate move on it, [[spoiler: so that they can destroy the basilisk permanently, as well as obtaining its venom]].
** When [[spoiler: Regulus Black]] approaches Severus, willing to defect, Severus advises him to do nothing rash, but strike back carefully and secretly.
---> '''Snape''': Do you know why patience and subtlety are a Slytherin's weapons? Why we deal with information, threats and measures considered underhanded by those of rash dispositions? A wound struck in silence and left to fester will always cut deeper than one detected and allowed to heal.
** He initiates a reform of Slytherin House by demonstrating his superior skill over the upper years, then using that to pressure the Prefects into doing their jobs and protecting every House member. This brings about greatly improved unity and garners widespread support and admiration from the younger years. Once his policies start producing results, rescuing several younger students from tight spots, he declares independence from the Death Eaters, shocking the House but retaining many followers and giving many others a feasible way to stay neutral.
** Severus becomes aware of the Diary horcrux as soon as [[spoiler: cockerels start dying]]. However, he and Dumbledore decide to bide their time, rather than make an immediate move on it, [[spoiler: so that they can destroy the basilisk permanently, as well as obtaining its venom]].
** When [[spoiler: Regulus Black]] approaches Severus, willing to defect, Severus advises him to do nothing rash, but strike back carefully and secretly.
---> '''Snape''': Do you know why patience and subtlety are a Slytherin's weapons? Why we deal with information, threats and measures considered underhanded by those of rash dispositions? A wound struck in silence and left to fester will always cut deeper than one detected and allowed to heal.
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* TheLostLenore: Although Lily is alive and well, Severus can never forget that in a former life his choices killed her, and that remembrance shapes everything he does.
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* MetaphoricallyTrue: Severus is able to partially explain his nightmares to Lily, by telling her that Voldemort tested him by implanting a memory of her dying and it being his fault. In reality, Voldemort gave him the (accurate) memory of her death as a very twisted "gift".
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: In his first life, Severus joined the Death Eaters, committed or contributed to many horrible crimes including personally murdering his parents as a test of loyalty, and unintentionally but directly brought about Lily's own death. Since he can't risk telling her about all of it, especially the time travel, Lily is sometimes confused about how he managed to fit so much darkness and trouble and trauma into the six months they were estranged.
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* AbusiveParents: Tobias and Eileen Snape get screen time. Eileen is grossly neglectful, only reacting to Severus' return at the end of the school year by criticising him for not knocking (and she's perpetually drunk). Tobias attacks both Severus and Lily. However, both of them later find a measure of conciliation with Severus.
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* TheAtoner: Severus begins as this, with his whole focus on preventing Lily's death, after his mistakes killed her the first time. He eventually comes to accept that not just her life, but her friendship and love, are within reach.
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* UnfinishedBusiness: The Grey Lady is trapped as a ghost by her regret at refusing to visit her mother's deathbed. [[spoiler: She finds peace by using the Resurrection Stone to speak with her mother, after which she passes on.]]
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: For a while, most of Lily's friends are hung up on Severus' shabby looks, dark past (which they're not convinced he's truly abandoned), acerbic personality, and poverty for good measure. As time passes, she's able to hold his achievements over their heads, such as his gold medal for groundbreaking contributions to alchemy.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: For a while, most of Lily's friends are hung up on Severus' shabby looks, dark past (which they're not convinced he's truly abandoned), acerbic personality, and poverty for good measure. As time passes, she's able to hold his achievements over their heads, such as his gold medal for groundbreaking contributions to alchemy.alchemy [[spoiler: and slaying Slytherin's Basilisk]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Severus, naturally. The gold gets to shine through a little more under Lily's tender care.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: This is basically the story of Severus' second life. [[spoiler:He does gain more self-confidence after they're married and graduated.]]
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* LoveRedeems: As per canon, Severus' love for Lily caused him to turn against Voldemort. But further, her loving him back gradually softens his sharp edges and makes him a little more tolerant and forgiving. Eventually.
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* LoveRedeems: As per canon, Severus' love for Lily caused him to turn against Voldemort. But further, her loving him back gradually softens his sharp edges and makes him a little more tolerant and forgiving. Eventually.Eventually.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: For a while, most of Lily's friends are hung up on Severus' shabby looks, dark past (which they're not convinced he's truly abandoned), acerbic personality, and poverty for good measure. As time passes, she's able to hold his achievements over their heads, such as his gold medal for groundbreaking contributions to alchemy.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: For a while, most of Lily's friends are hung up on Severus' shabby looks, dark past (which they're not convinced he's truly abandoned), acerbic personality, and poverty for good measure. As time passes, she's able to hold his achievements over their heads, such as his gold medal for groundbreaking contributions to alchemy.
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* LoveMartyr: Several of Lily's friends worry that she's becoming this, and she isn't able to talk them out of it for quite some time. It doesn't help that Severus really is a gruff and prickly person, sometimes even with her; she just also gets glimpses of his softer side and his strength of character.
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* ForWantOfANail: Severus is able to nudge many students away from becoming Death Eaters, often with quite small interventions. Even those who initially resist his efforts, such as [[spoiler:Avery and Regulus]], often come to him later when they are faced with the harsh realities of serving Voldemort. [[spoiler: Barty Crouch Jr]] is a particularly notable example of redemption through early intervention and sympathy.
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* ForWantOfANail: Severus is able to nudge many students away from becoming Death Eaters, often with quite small interventions. Even those who initially resist his efforts, such as [[spoiler:Avery and Regulus]], often come to him later when they are faced with the harsh realities of serving Voldemort. [[spoiler: Barty Crouch Jr]] is a particularly notable example of redemption through early intervention and sympathy.sympathy.
* LoveRedeems: As per canon, Severus' love for Lily caused him to turn against Voldemort. But further, her loving him back gradually softens his sharp edges and makes him a little more tolerant and forgiving. Eventually.
* LoveRedeems: As per canon, Severus' love for Lily caused him to turn against Voldemort. But further, her loving him back gradually softens his sharp edges and makes him a little more tolerant and forgiving. Eventually.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Snape's first life, in canon, ended with him losing everything, not even being able to keep Harry alive, despite all his efforts and all his suffering. In his second try, he is able to find happiness with Lily, although he faces many new hardships along the way, from the opposition of her friends and family, to the hostility of the Death Eaters whom he didn't join this time, [[spoiler:and even the loss of his wand hand]]. At one point, he even [[spoiler: is able to tell Lily about his first life, deepening their friendship and assuring her of the strength of his feelings for her, but then he later has to erase those memories for her safety, setting them back to almost square one]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Snape's first life, in canon, ended with him losing everything, not even being able to keep Harry alive, despite all his efforts and all his suffering. In his second try, he is able to find happiness with Lily, although he faces many new hardships along the way, from the opposition of her friends and family, to the hostility of the Death Eaters whom he didn't join this time, [[spoiler:and even the loss of his wand hand]]. At one point, he even [[spoiler: is able to tell Lily about his first life, deepening their friendship and assuring her of the strength of his feelings for her, but then he later has to erase those memories for her safety, setting them back to almost square one]].one]].
* ForWantOfANail: Severus is able to nudge many students away from becoming Death Eaters, often with quite small interventions. Even those who initially resist his efforts, such as [[spoiler:Avery and Regulus]], often come to him later when they are faced with the harsh realities of serving Voldemort. [[spoiler: Barty Crouch Jr]] is a particularly notable example of redemption through early intervention and sympathy.
* ForWantOfANail: Severus is able to nudge many students away from becoming Death Eaters, often with quite small interventions. Even those who initially resist his efforts, such as [[spoiler:Avery and Regulus]], often come to him later when they are faced with the harsh realities of serving Voldemort. [[spoiler: Barty Crouch Jr]] is a particularly notable example of redemption through early intervention and sympathy.
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-> '''Dumbledore''': What if I were to tell you, that not all of that needs to be. If the loss of her friendship was the only regret you needed to relive. Everything else would be up to you.
His life had been a mockery, so too his death it seemed. For what kind of twisted humour would force Severus Snape to relive his greatest regret? To return him to the point in his life where the only person that ever mattered in his life had already turned away.
''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12369512/65/ The Peace Not Promised]]'' is a Harry Potter PeggySue fanfiction by Tempest Kiro, and is being actively updated as of June 2020.
Upon his canonical death, Severus Snape meets Albus Dumbledore in the afterlife, and is offered a chance to go back to an earlier point in his life (shortly after the breaking of his friendship with Lily Evans), to remedy his many regrets. He accepts in hopes of keeping Lily alive; everything else, he feels, is secondary to that. However, the changes in himself and the changes he brings about once he arrives in the past have the effect of softening her anger toward him and persuading her to give him another chance.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Snape's first life, in canon, ended with him losing everything, not even being able to keep Harry alive, despite all his efforts and all his suffering. In his second try, he is able to find happiness with Lily, although he faces many new hardships along the way, from the opposition of her friends and family, to the hostility of the Death Eaters whom he didn't join this time, [[spoiler:and even the loss of his wand hand]]. At one point, he even [[spoiler: is able to tell Lily about his first life, deepening their friendship and assuring her of the strength of his feelings for her, but then he later has to erase those memories for her safety, setting them back to almost square one]].
His life had been a mockery, so too his death it seemed. For what kind of twisted humour would force Severus Snape to relive his greatest regret? To return him to the point in his life where the only person that ever mattered in his life had already turned away.
''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12369512/65/ The Peace Not Promised]]'' is a Harry Potter PeggySue fanfiction by Tempest Kiro, and is being actively updated as of June 2020.
Upon his canonical death, Severus Snape meets Albus Dumbledore in the afterlife, and is offered a chance to go back to an earlier point in his life (shortly after the breaking of his friendship with Lily Evans), to remedy his many regrets. He accepts in hopes of keeping Lily alive; everything else, he feels, is secondary to that. However, the changes in himself and the changes he brings about once he arrives in the past have the effect of softening her anger toward him and persuading her to give him another chance.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Snape's first life, in canon, ended with him losing everything, not even being able to keep Harry alive, despite all his efforts and all his suffering. In his second try, he is able to find happiness with Lily, although he faces many new hardships along the way, from the opposition of her friends and family, to the hostility of the Death Eaters whom he didn't join this time, [[spoiler:and even the loss of his wand hand]]. At one point, he even [[spoiler: is able to tell Lily about his first life, deepening their friendship and assuring her of the strength of his feelings for her, but then he later has to erase those memories for her safety, setting them back to almost square one]].
