Little Miss Mary

Little Miss Mary is a Harry Potter fanfic. Written and completed in 2004, it details Snape's rescue of Harry from Death Eaters who kill the entire Dursley family before going after him. To keep Harry safe, Snape conjures disguises for them and moves them to the town of York for the summer.

Sounds innocent enough, even an interesting premise for building on the complex relationship between student and potions master. Maybe even decent grounds for future shipping. Unfortunately, it is none of these things. Instead, Snape dolls Harry up like a cute little girl, poses as "her" uncle, and the two spend a few pages lusting after each other before the whole thing becomes a never-ending smut fest. And no, this is not portrayed as an older man taking advantage of a frightened teenager. It's meant to be romantic and consensual.

This squicked out many a reader back in the day, caught the attention of the PPC, and was subject to two sporkings. (One of which has sadly disappeared from the internet.)

The fic can be found at the author's home page as well as AO3. The surviving sporking can be found here.

Tropes present in Little Miss Mary

• Accusation Fic: Some of Snape's inner monologues are him lashing out at Dumbledore for a variety of missteps on his part, some of them mirroring fan criticism against the character. Thankfully, it doesn't last long as Dumbledore learns to accept the new Harry and his love for Snape.
• Angst? What Angst?: Harry doesn't mourn the Durlseys for very long, nor does Mary mourn her (ficticious) mother when she finally passes. Justified in the former case, though, as they treated him horribly while they were alive.
  • Draco, too. His father disowns him for refusing to support Voldermort, and his mother was unceremoniously killed offscreen. He barely seems to react to any of this.
• Anticlimax Boss: Voldermort, thanks to Harry and Snape gaining ridiculously powerful abilities by the time they fight him. The narrative even lampshades how easy a fight the guy was.
• Babies Ever After: The story ends with Harry giving birth to twins.
• But You Screw One Goat!: Averted with Remus when he makes love to Sirius in wolf form, it's portrayed as perfectly fine due to them being in a committed romantic relationship.
• Beta Couple: Draco and Ron, Sirius and Remus, Hermione and Blaise
• Bridal Carry: Snape carries Harry around like this constantly.
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Sirius raises valid moral concerns about Snape and Harry's love affair, but is seen as a grumpy old fuddy-duddy for it and made to come around at the end. Never mind that he's Harry's godfather and even if Harry consented, it's still technically grooming.
• Conveniently-Common Kink: Snape introduces Harry to cross-dressing, enemas, and butt plugs almost immediately. Harry's totally into it, of course.
• Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Primarily Snape and Harry, but we get a few scenes between Sirius and Remus, as well as one between Ron and Draco.
• Food Porn: Not only the descriptions of the prepared meals, but Harry and Snape can taste each other's food on their breath when they kiss. Goes into literal food porn when cake and chocolate syrup are used as part of the act in one scene.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: Snape uses his magic to fix Harry's eyesight. At first this seems a logical move; the Death Eaters will recognize Harry with his glasses, but Harry still needs to be able to see. However, Snape's inner monologue is absolutely livid that "those damn muggles" made a nearsighted boy wear glasses in the first place.
• Gothic Lolita: Mary's fashion sense in her younger teen years. She changes to sexier clothing as she gets older.
• Idiot Ball: Harry loses half his functioning brain cells and common sense so Snape can "teach" him about sex and doll him up in frilly clothes.
• Incest Subtext: Snape and Harry don't stop flirting with each other even under their John and Mary aliases.
  • Incest is Relative: Eventually, Snape tells everyone that Mary was adopted and shares no blood with him, making it okay for them to get married without a scandal.
• Insatiable Newlyweds: Snape and Harry are this before they even get married. Everything makes them horny for each other.
• May-December Romance: Harry is fourteen and his Mary alias is twelve when the story starts. Snape is in his mid-thirties.
• Mister Seahorse: Harry undergoes a spell to give him female reproductive organs, making him intersex. However, the story still refers to him as a male.
• My Biological Clock is Ticking: Harry's incessant desire to have Snape's babies comes off like this. He wants to be pregnant before he turns nineteen.
• The Power of Love: The romance of Snape and Harry is so grand and epic that it breaks down the barriers between the houses.
• Purple Prose
• Rape as Backstory: Harry believes this would have been in store for him had the Dursleys not bitten the dust when they did.
• Rescue Romance: Harry basically falls in love with Snape because Snape rescued him.
• Sex Equals Love: Harry tells Snape "I love you" in the middle of their foreplay, before their first day together is even done.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: Snape and Harry
• Skewed Priorities: Snape dolling Harry up like a Catholic schoolgirl while they're escaping. "Even though I'd rarely been in such danger, I couldn't resist indulging in my secret fantasy kink."
• Stuffed Into the Fridge: Narcissa Malfoy disappears sometime after Draco is disowned by Lucius, and her remains are eventually discovered in the family crypt.
• Teacher-Student Romance
• Virginity Makes You Stupid: Harry and especially his "Mary" alias in the beginning, all so Snape/John can introduce him to the wonderful world of kinky sex in a gentle, fatherly manner.
• Wife Husbandry: Especially in the case of John and Mary.