Advanced Potion-Making

[maraudermods]

Title: Advanced Potion-Making
Author: fire_everything
Beta, cheerleader and all-around facilitator: brighty18
Artists: lilmisblack (banner), niccc (all other art)
Pairing: Snape/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Authorial presumption, profanity, magical dub-con, mild kink, possibly disturbing reproductive issues/procedures, angst, excessive length
Word Count: Um…shorter than Half-Blood Prince

Comments

[fire_everything]

The question of what Snape's middle name was is actually not one that keeps me up nights (Bad fangirl! Bad!!), and I wasn't planning to address it at all until, ironically, I wrote myself into a situation where it became necessary to do so (since Harry's middle name is mentioned during his parallel hearing). I needed a dummy name, and naturally "Tiberius" leapt out of my pop-culture-steeped subconscious and popped itself in there.

But given that I originally came to LJ as a Star Trek reboot movie fan, I figured "Tiberius" would be an appropriate tribute to my half-forgotten original fandom, so I kept it. If it gets a few cross-fandom snerks, I'll be happy. ;)

(Now that I come to think of it, "Tobias" probably would be a more logical choice in the context of this story. Eileen would have still been thinking favorably about Tobias at the time of Snape's birth, not to mention tickled by the fact that the Muggle she loved happened to have such a wizardy name. And if her marriage to Tobias caused most of her family to disown her, as I've proposed, it's unlikely that she would have named Snape after any of them. All of this is completely negated, however, by the fact that choosing "Tobias" would have been unacceptably boring.)

I do so enjoy overthinking these things. :)

[shyfoxling]

and naturally "Tiberius" leapt out of my pop-culture-steeped subconscious and popped itself in there.

Also, like "Severus", it's both the name of a Roman emperor and a Catholic saint, so why not?

(Now that I come to think of it, "Tobias" probably would be a more logical choice in the context of this story.

Eh, I know, and it seems pretty common for wizards (like Muggles) to carry their father's names as middle names. But something just rubs me the wrong way about it in Severus's case, and it's such a common choice for authors that I'm always pleased to see someone change it up a little bit (so long as they don't give him an alliterative middle name!).

not to mention tickled by the fact that the Muggle she loved happened to have such a wizardy name

My understanding is that it was a perfectly normal Muggle name in context - not, I guess, that he would have gone by the full "Tobias" very much, but "Toby" would have been considered a good, hearty, friendly name for a man in that place and time. (I could be wrong - this is just a paraphrase of what I've been told.)