Title: A Year Like None Other
Author: Aspen In The Sunlight
Rating: PG
Genre: Snape/Harry mentor story Angst/Action
Pairing: None
Chapters: 97
Words: 760,446
Updated: March 25, 2007
Published: December 3, 2004
Status: Complete
Summary:

A letter from home? A letter from family? Well, Harry Potter knows he has neither, but all the same, it starts with a letter from Surrey. Whatever the Durleys have to say, it can't be anything good, so Harry's determined to ignore it. But then, his evil schoolmate rival spots the letter and his slimy excuse for a teacher intercepts it and forces him to read it. And that sends Harry down a path he'd never have walked on his own.

It will be a year of big changes, a year of great pain, and a year of confronting worst fears. It will be a year of surprising discoveries, of finding true strength, of finding out that first impressions of a person's true colours do not always ring true. It will be a year of paradigm shifts.

And from the most unexpected sources, Harry will have a chance to have that which he has never known: a home ... and a family.

A sixth year fic, this story follows Order of the Phoenix and disregards any canon events that occur after Book 5.​

Link: http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=5036
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/742072


Part 2:

Title: A Summer like none other
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Chapters: 24
Words: 225,007
Published: July 17, 2006
Updated: February 2, 2008
Status: Completed
Summary: COMPLETE. Family isn't everything, as Harry, Snape, and Draco discover in this sequel to A Year Like None Other. How will a mysterious mirror and a surprising new relationship affect a father and his two sons?

Link: http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=13093
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/836478


Part 3:

Title: A Family Like None Other
Rating: PG
Genre: Angst
Chapters: 43
Words: 412,484
Published: May 21, 2008
Updated: October 20, 2014-10-20
Status: Work in Progress
Summary:
Third story in the "Like None Other" universe. During his final year at Hogwarts, relationships will splinter as Harry confronts secrets long-buried and faces the greatest challenge of them all.

Link: http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=17466
Link: (not on AO3)


Checked by Minion, June 28, 2015
Added the sequels and AO3 link and summary for the first entry

 

I'll have to check this out soon, could be a winner.

77 chapters and no pairing yet for Harrikins? Awww, all work and no play makes Harry a dull boy

 

Haha, yeah, it's refreshing to find a story without any pairings. If you read the story, you'll understand why Harry hasn't been with anyone. I'll just tell you this, he missed much of his sixth year due to a loss in his magic. He gets it back in an interesting way. Well, he doesn't exactly lose his magic, he just has trouble getting it out.

 

Yeah, to bad its still not on FF.Net, makes it a whole lot easier if its there. Still... Harrikins still needs SOME action

 

It was on FF.Net, but for some reason FF.Net tore it down, and now the author refuses to post it there again.

 

I second that

 

Well, yes, in this case it was stupid. But there are stories out there that deserve to be deleted. I dunno, I heard someone was trying to get a group together to check all complaints before they are deleted. That might work.

 

Yeah, this fic was really going down the drain in the last, uh, 10 chapters or so. But the last one was good. I can't believe anyone liked the chapters before though, they were all filler. It was full of extranneous shit like Harry getting picked on by his Defense professor because he speaks Parseltongue. Her followers full of sheep are starting to annoy me so much that I avoid her Yahoo group.

And that new video that that lady made for her with Kelly Clarkson's song, "Because of You"? That was fucking stupid. For one thing, it had nothing to do with AYLNO. The song is about how lost a little girl is because her father left her and her mom ignores her. I swear, people just see Alan Rickman and Tom Felton and cream their pants. Does anyone actually listen to the lyrics? They're all sheep I tell you, all sheep. :evil:

 

The beginning chapters were great, she updated regularly almost every few days, and they were pretty long chapters as well. I think she made the transition from Snape acting like Snape to Snape getting to know Harry and start liking him as a person. What I liked was that the change wasn't immediate, and it was almost imperceptible. But after her fic went off ff.net she seriously started acting arrogant because of her huge following from just that fic. I don't think she knew before, but when she started her Yahoo group people started joining and talking almost immediately.

Yes, it does only cover one year. But to be fair, most of the fic is taking place outside of Hogwarts, or at least, outside of Gryffindor Tower and classrooms. So it's interesting, becomes average, then becomes tedious just to read it. It picked up the last chapter, but I'm not really interested in reading it anymore, that's how boring it has got.