Pardon, but your tie is not symmetrical.

AU where snape, minerva, black, and lupin all go rogue on the order and team up and successfully take down the dark lord before harry potter has to deal with him. (This can be before his first year, during the first war, just after the dark lord was resurrected, or whenever you see fit.) Extras with Lucius and Narcissa helping in the background and Albus bring flabbergasted

Anything

This is supposed to be a plot for a multi-chap anonnnn,, I don’t think I can write it properly but here’s some hc. I kinda got carried away

- When Severus said he would do “Anything” to keep Lily and her family(yes, even if it included the toerag Potter), he meant anything. Dumbledore broke their pact so Severus took it upon himself to protect her child.

- When he learned from Minerva’s rants that the young Potter was placed with Petunia and her family of all people, he had to restrain himself from marching there himself. 

- He went to Lucius and Narcissa. They had a son just recently and if Draco was born just a bit later, it could have been their son who was nearly killed and it would have been them on the end of the Dark Lord’s mind. It took a lot of scheming but Lucius eventually relented. He wanted the Dark Lord gone. Lord Voldemort may have started just a tad insane but as he grew more paranoid, so did his penchant to torture his followers for no reason. A Malfoy does not bow and Lucius knew that his ancestors would spit his name when they learn he kissed the hem of the robes of a false lord.

- Narcissa was easier to convince. She was a mother and would do everything to protect her son. Severus was there as they worried about their child. And he knew that despite all the blood supremacy propaganda the Blacks spouted, Narcissa wasn’t as insane as her aunt Walburga nor her sister Bellatrix. She wasn’t above scoffing at muggles nor saying Severus’ most hated word, but she has enough grace decorum not to do so in polite company. And she was from the most ancient and noble house of Black. If Malfoy’s don’t bow, the Blacks won’t even acknowledge a false lord.

- Despite everything he has against the Marauders, he sought out Lupin because even a werewolf would be a better guardian than Petunia.There was always the Malfoy’s but Severus was hesitant to leave young Potter to them.

- Lupin was still grieving and they nearly drew their wands against each other. Severus just punched him in the jaw to calm him down. As Lupin sported a sore jaw, Severus found out that Lupin was under suspicion and was therefore not chosen as a Secret Keeper and he wondered just what else Potter and Black were scheming between themselves. 

- So Severus asked Malfoy for a favor and found himself roaming Azkaban and found he enjoyed the place more when he was the one outside of the bars. He took several calming potions and occluded beforehand so when the warden opened an interrogation cell with a chained Sirius Black, he barely raised a brow as the moron shouted himself hoarse. 

- He forced some Veritaserum on his enemy and asked him if he killed the twelve muggles and Black laughed and said yes. Severus didn’t fly into a rage with righteous fury. He knew Sirius Black and it was easy to see the worst him during the best of times but he knew how much Black liked to brag. And he wasn’t bragging now. He asked if he was the Secret Keeper and Black laughed in a maniacal way saying that Pettigrew was the Secret Keeper. How Black may as well have killed all those muggles and had his best friend and his wife killed because it was his idea in the first place to switch secret keepers. Severus walked out even while Black was hurling insults towards him.

- Trusting Minerva was a shot in the dark. She didn’t trust him enough and she was an old friend of Dumbledore. He was her friend before Severus was even born. But he heard her rant about leaving Potter to his relatives. How horrid they were and how she was unsure about Albus’ choice of guardian.

- So Severus decided to risk it. He approached Minerva and let her motherly lion instincts to fill in the blanks. He planted the seeds of doubt in her and allowed her some time to think about his words.

- It took some planning but Severus approached Lupin again, this time without any hexes nor fists and told him the truth. Lupin admitted that his other friends were animagus’ and Severus wanted to scoff at him. That was the best nicknames they could come up with? Severus remarked how obvious who the traitor is in hindsight and had to talk Lupin out of telling Dumbledore. Despite everything, it all seemed a bit too convenient that nobody tried Black, how they only asked if h killed those muggles, how Potter was sent to muggle relatives despite other blood relations from distant families like other wizarding children.

- Severus returned to Lucius and discussed legal matters with him, letting the Malfoy get lulled into a familiar battle field before throwing him into the fire. He asked about why the Dark Lord was so confident he wouldn’t die, why he was paranoid with the prophecy despite his self proclamation of immortality. 

- After some time Lucius showed Severus a diary the Dark Lord asked him to keep. Severus did the wise thing and examined it for curses and his eyes widened when he saw just how dark that artifact was. Despite his better judgement, he needed to find out why it was so dark so he wrote on it. The things he found out were alarming. When he noticed that he was getting weaker and that his magic felt too drained, he destroyed the diary in an empty lot in another manor of Malfoy outside of Britain.

- A shard of the Dark Lord’s soul in an object? Severus searched high and low in the Malfoy and Black libraries. He shuddered as he found out that it was a horcrux but thanks to the text in his hand, he knew how to deal with it.

- Planting the seeds of doubt in Minerva paid off. She approached him one day and asked about the Dursleys again. She admitted that she did not fully trust him but she was also beginning to doubt Albus’ judgement.

- Severus believed he had enough pieces to finally play and so decided to bluff his way to a win.

- Sirius Black escaped and stirred the public into panic. Dementors were sent and the public grew even more upset. Lupin was the first person they suspected of harboring a criminal but he wasn’t there. He was somewhere in cokeworth hiding.

- Narcissa of all people begin to speak up for her cousin. Telling the public that she didn’t believe his sentence to be legitimate and went off to tell tales of being in school with him, where he was a prankster but wished no harm to anyone. She spun a tale of how he chose to be disowned by his family rather than turn his back on his best friend. That got the people thinking and had Severus nearly vomiting as he read the article.

- Lupin began whispering to a lowly newspaper called the Quibbler. Xenophilius was only a few years in the business but took on the tale of a poor werewolf wondering how his friend suddenly changed and how out of character it seemed. Minus the gnargles and other creatures apparently making your mood sour and eating up your common sense, the article was fairly decent. It planted some seeds of doubt in the mass’ heads and soon enough some demanded a real trial.

- Sirius Black surrendered himself to the ministry accompanied by Lupin and Narcissa with the deal that they use veritaserum on him and without violence. After proving himself innocent and damning Pettigrew’s name, it only took a few days before Harry was transferred to his godfather. 

- Dumbledore tried his best to sway Sirius’ decisions but being left to rot in Azkaban isn’t forgiven lightly. Minerva stepped in and got Dumbledore away from Sirius’ back. Severus silently patting himself on the back for that one. On the way out, he spoke to Minerva of his ‘suspicions’ of the Dark Lord’s true state. He revealed a barely visible dark mark and saw her pale. Honesty was always a plus with a lion, despite how queesy it makes them. He confirmed that the Dark Lord isn’t truly gone and once again left her with a question of how far is she going to go to be rid of such a monster.

-  Getting Potter away from Petunia is done. Severus planned to go about the second phase alone but considering they were now having ‘secret meetings’ in his house now and seeing Narcissa speak to Lupin and Black snarking at Lucius, it seemed he didn’t have to. 

Shit now I want an AU of this. 

Thanks for the wonderful angst anon, there’ll be a part two sometime soon. Send some asks on what you want to see if you feel like it.