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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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!
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!