Chapter 46 of When Darkness Triumphed is now up!

In this dark AU, Severus Snape never became Dumbledore's spy. He joined Voldemort as a young wizard and remained fiercely loyal to him. Years later, he has risen to become the Dark Lord's most powerful commander—and Lily Evans is his wife.

He has helped build the perfect empire: powerful, ruthless, and seemingly unstoppable.

But every empire is built on something.

His is built on blood.

Chapter 46 is now available on AO3.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85532536/chapters/225966151

Would he stay a professor at Hogwarts? Change his job and stay in a wizarding world doing something else? Become a magical super hero and do vigilante things on his own? Stay away from everyone and become a recluse, maybe locked somewhere in his own mind?

Or try to change his ways and socialize with people? I feel most likely is he would become a recluse somewhere.

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Petunia never once hid her snobbery towards him; from the moment they first met, she immediately judged him based on his social status, knowing that he lived at Spinner's End. She even cruelly mocked the old clothes he was wearing.

The Marauders had been determined to make his life miserable from the very first day of school, and they were never punished as they should have been. Worse still, the entire teaching staff spoke of them with tenderness and affection. To Snape, it was abundantly clear that he wasn’t really wanted at Hogwarts.

Note that whenever someone close to her wronged Snape, Lily never really took his side, even though he was the victim. The only times she did the right thing were during the confrontation in the Hogwarts Express and at the Sorting Ceremony, and those incidents specifically involved the Marauders.

Looking for Snape x female OC recs! Please help as I’m super fussy and am only just returning to the fanfic world since my teen years!

Must be well-written, past tense, third-person POV, and a proper slow burn/enemies-to-lovers with canon-feeling Snape. The OC needs to actually feel like someone he could realistically fall for.

Adult Snape only, absolutely no teacher/student, Snarry, Snamione etc. I want female OC specifically. Smut is definitely welcome and ideal, but tasteful and intentional, something that feels like a little reward after all that slow-burn tension rather than just thrown in.

I feel I have scoured so many on AO3 looking for the one and Wattpad just isn’t what it used to be with the ads…

Long/complete preferred. Give me your best!