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Potions and Snitches is an archive dedicated to hosting good quality fanfiction that deals with Severus Snape and Harry Potter in a non slash relationship.

We have a few basic submission rules:

1. Stories must focus primarily on the relationship between Severus Snape and Harry Potter. You must post enough of your story at first to show that.
   
   
2. No SS/HP (slash) is allowed. Their relationship must be platonic.
   
   
3. No mature ratings are allowed (no NC-17 or MA scenes). Sexual scenes and graphic imagery must not be acted out. The rating must be correct for the content in the story. For ratings guidlines go here.
   
   
4. No plagiarism is allowed.
   
   
5. All original fictional characters must be well developed. (No Canon Sues or Mary Sues allowed.)
   
   
6. No bad crackfic please (a type of fanfiction that is intentionally unbelievable and insane).
   
   
7. Stories must have correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Poor gramma, spelling, or punctuation will be rejected. Double quotation marks (" ") are the preferred style for dialogue on this archive.
   
   
8. All classifications must be correct (warnings, genres, characters, ect.).
   
   
9. For chaptered stories, please aim for chapter length between 4 and 18 pages. The maximum number of words per chapter is 40,000.
   
   
10. Author notes are only allowed in the Story notes and Author notes boxes. If they are in the story text area they will be deleted. If story notes are used, then chapter notes should be avoided for the first chapter.
    
    
11. Please check the formatting of each chapter before and after you submit. Make sure that there are line breaks and spaces between paragraphs. Do not indent your chapters with spaces, because paragraphs will end up being indented halfway across the page. Do not justify your paragraphs except for special print-like sections. For formatting help, go here.
    
    
12. Do not make strings of symbols longer than 15 characters. For example, "Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" is 15 characters without any spaces. This rule includes dashes ------- or ________, use horizontal rules instead which will grow or shrink to match the width of the page. Any strings of characters longer than 15 will be shortened by site administrators to prevent horizontal scrolling of the page.
    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! This is why we don't allow such long words and lines... can you actually read this without scrolling from side to side? Imagine if the entire chapter was like this... It would be terrible, huh? Yeah, it would. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------__________________ThisIsn'tAHorizontalRule_______________________