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I was messing about copying discussion questions out of the SS Always and SS Cliched (Severus/Lily ship) threads on Fiction Alley Park, and of course one of them is speculating about names of possible children. Usually this is something I turn away from, as children and domesticity is about my least favourite setting for Severus, but wotthehell archy, wotthehell.

My subconscious apparently keeps wanting to serve me up a relative of Severus's named Nathaniel, because that was the random "Okay, quick, write down the first thing that comes to mind" name it gave me for their son (also: a daughter named Janet). It had previously supplied this name for Eileen Prince's brother when I was writing a drabble (though he wound up not getting called by name).

You can imagine my double-take, then, when I saw this fanart of a "Nathaniel", even though it turned out to not be HP-related, because that's pretty much the picture I had in my head of what Nathaniel Snape would look like, except he wore his hair a little shorter. (I figure Lily's red-hair-green-eyes genes are recessive and hypothetical children of theirs would likely turn out dark-haired and dark-eyed like Severus is.)

EDIT: Okay, this is getting too weird. Another of the questions was about one of said children bringing home a boyfriend/girlfriend to meet the parents. I wrote a little scene where young Janet Snape (ca. age 14) brings home her friend Daniel. Then I see this post from severuslovesus (although I think she's also talking about non-HP fic there) where a "Janey" was interested in a Daniel.

Am I dipping into a great river of fic truth or something?

MORE EDIT: Here's an excerpt from a review of that Bartimaeus business:

I'm puzzled by those who call it a knockoff of Harry Potter. Having a boy magician as the main character doesn't make something a Harry Potter knockoff. Especially when that magician is Nathaniel, as different a character from Harry as you can imagine.

Nathaniel is bitter, ambitious, naïve, and hugely precocious.

...Okay! All right then!

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[nehalenia.livejournal.com]

My god. Someone else who knows about Don Marquis!!!!



Even most of my English teachers don't know who he is. Which is a crying shame.

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I wondered if anyone was going to ask me who "archy" was. :) I actually heard of him first when I was about eight years old, from a kids' 365-page book of daily activites. They were pretty simple, rebuses and crosswords and craft projects and the like, but in many places there were quotes from various poets and literary figures. That's where I first learned the "I'm nobody -- who are you?" poem by Emily Dickinson, too, and possibly even "Because I could not stop for death", which is pretty high-minded for a kids' book, if I'm correctly remembering that it was there.

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(I'd edit the comment, but I'm actually logged in as my other account at the moment, and in the middle of something)

I should point out that most of the book was on the level of a drawing of cut-and-paste magazine/newspaper letters (one of the craft projects) spelling out 4 million by dark or it's poison sauerkraut for your cactus, which is another bit that's always stuck with me. *wry grin*

[fenm.livejournal.com]

Hoy crapweasels, that's amazing! It does look like Sevvie...

(also: a daughter named Janet).

Dammit.

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What was amazing was that that character (whoever he is) was also named Nathaniel.

(also: a daughter named Janet).

Dammit.

HA HA HA.

I think Severus is probably the type of father who would forbid his daughter to see Rocky Horror until she was of age and he couldn't do anything about it anymore. ;)

edit: My brain, she is crazy. The other major association I have with the name Janet is "Tam Lin", so I get this:

O I forbid you, maidens a',
Who have your da's black hair
To come or go by Gryffindor
For Potters may be there...

[nemesister.livejournal.com]

Awww, see Snape *has* a son.

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I may have to read this "Bartimaeus Trilogy", whatever it is, just for the coincidental lulz. Get a load of this other sketch:

http://galleth.deviantart.com/art/Nat-thumbnail-79592752

Like father like son! Fer shure!

[nemesister.livejournal.com]

I'm checking amazon reviews as we speak... Gotta keep an eye on the family! :p

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Wait, wait, wait.

I'm puzzled by those who call it a knockoff of Harry Potter. Having a boy magician as the main character doesn't make something a Harry Potter knockoff. Especially when that magician is Nathaniel, as different a character from Harry as you can imagine.

Nathaniel is bitter, ambitious, naïve, and hugely precocious.

And there are "people also bought..." links for some series called "Septimus Heap", which is apparently the same general idea (adventures of a young wizard boy).

...

[nemesister.livejournal.com]

:D I said it was Sev's son! Obviously he inspires more than just free porn on the internet. I will go on a sacred quest to find the perfect Snape rip off, now!

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Obviously he inspires more than just free porn on the internet.

The man is an archetypal being, I swear. :P

(Wait -- there's more than Severus porn? ;) )