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The best angst Snupin (Remus Lupin/Severus Snape) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Sometimes you want to feel deeply - angst delivers emotional catharsis and meaningful character exploration.

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1

Colours of Redemption

Angst

by RainforestAkiie

Severus Snape was meant to die.Instead he was placed into hell. Trapped in timeloops, Severus tries to make sense of the future knowledge he suddenly had. If he made one bad move, everything is reset for him to try again. Being placed into a new house and everyone being nice to him, Severus is doing

6,044 kudos 374,996 words 29/35 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
2

Love They Haven't Thought Of Yet

Angst

by Anonymous

Boy Who Lived, Saviour of the Wizarding World, Defeater of Grindelwald, never received his Hogwarts Letter. Five years later, a 16-year-old Harry Potter is found on the streets of London and immediately sent to Hogwarts, where he catches the eye of one Professor Tom Riddle. When Harry is sorted into

5,209 kudos 84,566 words 75/75 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Lily's Boy

by SomewheresSword

Before his third year of Hogwarts has even begun, Harry faces three whole weeks of unsupervised time in Diagon Alley. In that time he takes a trip to Gringotts - and that changes everything.Burdened with the knowledge that Dumbledore has been blocking his family magic, and manipulating far more than

88,293 kudos 746,386 words 109/109 chapters Explicit
4

F**k your lemon drops

by Lenessia

It was over. Harry had done it. Voldemort was dead. The death Eaters had backed down. He looked up catching sight of platinum hair. Draco and his mother had helped in the end. The light probably would have lost if not for them. Harry caught his eye and smiled. Draco returned the gesture with a nod o

15,934 kudos 128,462 words 36/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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The Meaning of Mistletoe

by Endrina

“Just… tell me. Tell me what is going on, Snape.”What was going on was that Severus Snape had no trouble tracking down one Petunia Evans, now Dursley, to a little town in Surrey where he saw how exactly she was treating her nephew. Which somehow led to last night and Severus knocking on Lupin’s door

14,379 kudos 30,708 words 3/3 chapters Mature
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Porcupine Quills & Potion Spills: The Second Life of Severus Snape

by ShenYuan_did_not_transmigrate_for_this

A time-travel fix-it centered around Severus Snape from before Hogwarts to after.A potions accident sends a discontent and bitter Severus Snape back in time to his childhood years before Hogwarts. Seeing an opportunity to alter the future for the better, Severus' actions bring about more changes tha

12,185 kudos 48,149 words 43/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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The Meaning of Dandelions

by Endrina

The stupid hat was stupid and refused to help Harry. The whole school and its division in houses was stupid too, and the teachers.Harry was in Hogwarts, but he didn't want to be. He wanted to go back home.

11,798 kudos 72,013 words 10/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
8

The Fury Within

by NinjaPandaScholar

After an unexpected birthday surprise, Harry Potter finds himself suddenly very different from what he was just a day before, and somehow taking care of a baby in need. However, his short and painful life has taught him that no one is safe around Harry Potter. So, how else can be protect this innoce

11,154 kudos 120,310 words 27/27 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
9

Prized

by Nahiel

Severus Snape's loyalty has always been to Harry, not to Dumbledore or the Order. When he finds out that Harry is a horcrux and Dumbledore intends to have him killed, Severus goes to the Dark Lord with the information in an effort to save Harry's life, and in doing so changes the fate of the world.

10,361 kudos 120,217 words 49/49 chapters Mature
10

The Meaning of Geranium

by Endrina

With adulthood comes the realization that parents can’t fix all. That there are dangers that are too big.This is the story of a war and the people who didn't want to fight in it but did anyway.

9,331 kudos 239,162 words 24/24 chapters Explicit
11

Onyx

by geoffaree

Harry and Jax’s second summer at Spinner’s End and third year at Hogwarts. One filled with new and exciting classes, a surprisingly competent Defense Professor, and a few revelations that nobody saw coming, least of all Harry himself.

8,823 kudos 139,576 words 27/27 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
12

White Lies

by cassisluna

Draco drinks a potion that makes him know if a person is lying, and Harry, apparently at fault that Draco is this way, is forced to 'help' him with the effects of the potion. For the first time, they deal with each other with no lies to hide behind. HPDM RWHG BZNL SSRL

8,743 kudos 171,013 words 32/32 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
13

Floriography

by Endrina

Epilogue to "the secret language of plants" series in the form of an advent calendar.

7,619 kudos 31,194 words 24/24 chapters Mature
14

Save Me

by NinjaPandaScholar

“Potter…why is a horcrux of the Dark Lord sitting in your living room in muggle Surrey?” Severus Snape slowly and calmly asked as if he was holding onto his last thread of sanity while waiting for the answer. “Well, we met back in my second year at school, became friends since I didn’t know who his

7,076 kudos 235,251 words 36/36 chapters Mature
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Bloodstone

by geoffaree

Harry and Jax's third summer at Spinner's End and first as part of his new family. With fourth year comes a few surprises and an exasperated Harry that wishes for once that he could just have a regular school term. Or at least one that did not involve actual dragons, too many people trying to nose t

6,788 kudos 110,472 words 21/21 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
16

Harry Potter and How One Choice Changed Everything

by TheCheshireBat

What would have happened if Petunia Evans Dursley had made another choice on first November when she found her nephew on the doorstep instead of the morning paper?

6,655 kudos 275,880 words 74/74 chapters Explicit
17

That Awful Boy

by paracosim

Petunia lets slip a twenty-year-old secret, and Harry is sent to Spinner's End to study Occlumency early. Severus Snape can see no way in which this could end in catastrophe.

6,349 kudos 98,288 words 29/29 chapters Mature
18

Breaking the Mold

by Komodo_Butterfly

Everyone knew Severus' future. Everyone knew he'd become a death eater, maybe get his mastery in potions and eventually die at his master's hand. But what if they didn't know Severus as well as they thought they did? Rather than conform to the role people expected him to play, Severus takes action.

6,174 kudos 71,199 words 19/19 chapters Mature
19

A Twisted Second Chance

by kingof_princes

Severus Snape was ready to embrace death, bleeding out on the cold floor of the Shrieking Shack after Nagini's deadly attack. He had made peace with his end—relief, even, at the thought of escaping a life of torment and regret.So why, in the ever-twisted fabric of fate, did he wake up in his fifteen

6,018 kudos 73,445 words 16/? chapters Not Rated
20

Azurite

by geoffaree

The Dark Lord has risen. An unexpected ally returns to deliver troubling news. As Voldemort gathers power it is a nerve wracking summer for Harry and Jax as they are sequestered away from their home and Spinner's End. With fifth year also come O.W.L.s and a new Defense teacher that seems more intere

5,908 kudos 122,510 words 26/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences

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Why Angst Snupin Fanfiction Works So Well

Remus Lupin/Severus Snape — The werewolf professor and the man who brews his Wolfsbane share a poisoned history stretching back to the Marauders' worst prank. One of HP fandom's classic ships, Snupin trades in wary truces, wartime loneliness, and two outcasts who understand being feared.

Angst — Stories focused on emotional pain, drama, and intense feelings.

Snape keeps Lupin human once a month whether he likes it or not, an intimacy neither of them ever asked for. Sometimes you want to feel deeply - angst delivers emotional catharsis and meaningful character exploration. That's why angst Snupin fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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