When wizards breed - the Wunderkinder
Leading a love story to the point where the happy couple is going to have a baby is actually a cliché in itself - and it's even one I can talk competently about because I do that all the time. Yet by reading through a few fics in the last day I discovered something I actually found quite funny.
In HP fanfiction it's obviously not enough that the more or less happy couple breeds - no. It has to breed a Wunderkind. Especially Severus Snape and Hermione Granger seem to be prone to that. However Hermione comes to the kid (I remember one story where Snape - of course under Imperio raped her and got her pregnant) - this certain kid (and of course it's sibling - and one wonders how much siblings it sometimes gets! The record I remember was seven and Hermione whining because she couldn't have more what made me wonder if she were in a kind of contest with Molly Weasley) mostly seems to be a mixture between Shirley Temple and all the four founders of Hogwarts. It's - and yes, it is mostly a girl - incredibly cute (if I'd get a pound for every time the kid has got raven hair, falling down in shining curls over her back, I'd be a rich woman now), promising to become a breath taking beauty once; endless charming and so talented in matters of magic that it could defeat Voldemort before having breakfast without losing her appetite.
And even more: While children in canon mostly develop their magical abilities at the age of four or five (and some even later as the story Neville tells about his relatives shows) the Snapelings seems to crawl out of mommie's womb and greeting the world in doing some rather elaborate magic. Other people - like poor Harry - need to learn Occlumency in hard training sessions, but a kid from Hermione and Severus can become born as "natural legilimens".
Besides of the great magical abilities I'm always blown away by the charm of some Snape-children. In canon we learn that he actually isn't someone who likes children. And to imagine canon Snape bent over a cot, making "tut-tut-show the uncle your cute little nose!" is a hard job. Nevertheless: His own children always get him. Even if he doesn't know they're his because Hermione ran away as soon as she discovered her pregnancy (running away when pregnant is another Potter cliché I hate, especially when it is connected to woman like Hermione or young Minerva. I think both of them would be able to deal with the fathers of their child and both of them would know that a father has a right to know about his child and a child has a right to know about its father) - one day Mummy Hermione comes back to Hogwarts with the cutie and before you can say "Run, Severus, run!" the little sweetheart bumps in him, shows him her most charming smile - and there goes our sour Potions master, becoming replaced by Fluffy Severus, the doting father who befriends the child and obviously loses his ability to count by it because he often enough isn't able to count two and two together for getting that the child is his.
This fate he shares with Dumbledore. He obviously missed the lesson about the bees and the flowers too and therefore never gets the idea that a child born nine months after he enjoyed a passionate night with Minerva could be his. Yet what always wonders me even more: These guys learning at least that the sweetheart is their own flesh and blood never get angry at the mother. Obviously it's connected to hormones - though I can't remember Rowlings mentioning a certain "fatherhood hormone" for wizards which switches their brains down - but they never tell the mothers that they found it rather irresponsible keeping a child away from the father or something like that.
But back to the kids and their abilities. I know a bit about genetics and looking at canon Hermione and canon Snape I find it hard to believe that a kid of them would look like a little angel (with black hair of course. And shiny hair, of course. Because Snape actually has shiny hair. Or better said: Silken hair. Or was it shimmering hair? Well, in any case: His kid would inherit this shiny, silken, shimmering hair). And as far as the magical abilities are concerned: The Snape fans may want to tar and feather me for that, but I can't remember where in canon he's described as the wizard with the outstanding abilities. One could even speculate about his skills with a wand being rather average because of his dismay of "silly wand waving". So even Hermione's outstanding abilities wouldn't necessarily make for their child becoming the uber wizard.
As much as I like babies and all our favourite characters becoming happy parents: Let them have "normal" kids! I'm sure that Hermione would be able to love a child to pieces even if it doesn't look like the model child and even if it isn't able to do Legilimency while it still wears nappies.
PS: I beg your pardon for all the mistakes in this post. English isn't my native language ...
In HP fanfiction it's obviously not enough that the more or less happy couple breeds - no. It has to breed a Wunderkind. Especially Severus Snape and Hermione Granger seem to be prone to that. However Hermione comes to the kid (I remember one story where Snape - of course under Imperio raped her and got her pregnant) - this certain kid (and of course it's sibling - and one wonders how much siblings it sometimes gets! The record I remember was seven and Hermione whining because she couldn't have more what made me wonder if she were in a kind of contest with Molly Weasley) mostly seems to be a mixture between Shirley Temple and all the four founders of Hogwarts. It's - and yes, it is mostly a girl - incredibly cute (if I'd get a pound for every time the kid has got raven hair, falling down in shining curls over her back, I'd be a rich woman now), promising to become a breath taking beauty once; endless charming and so talented in matters of magic that it could defeat Voldemort before having breakfast without losing her appetite.
And even more: While children in canon mostly develop their magical abilities at the age of four or five (and some even later as the story Neville tells about his relatives shows) the Snapelings seems to crawl out of mommie's womb and greeting the world in doing some rather elaborate magic. Other people - like poor Harry - need to learn Occlumency in hard training sessions, but a kid from Hermione and Severus can become born as "natural legilimens".
Besides of the great magical abilities I'm always blown away by the charm of some Snape-children. In canon we learn that he actually isn't someone who likes children. And to imagine canon Snape bent over a cot, making "tut-tut-show the uncle your cute little nose!" is a hard job. Nevertheless: His own children always get him. Even if he doesn't know they're his because Hermione ran away as soon as she discovered her pregnancy (running away when pregnant is another Potter cliché I hate, especially when it is connected to woman like Hermione or young Minerva. I think both of them would be able to deal with the fathers of their child and both of them would know that a father has a right to know about his child and a child has a right to know about its father) - one day Mummy Hermione comes back to Hogwarts with the cutie and before you can say "Run, Severus, run!" the little sweetheart bumps in him, shows him her most charming smile - and there goes our sour Potions master, becoming replaced by Fluffy Severus, the doting father who befriends the child and obviously loses his ability to count by it because he often enough isn't able to count two and two together for getting that the child is his.
This fate he shares with Dumbledore. He obviously missed the lesson about the bees and the flowers too and therefore never gets the idea that a child born nine months after he enjoyed a passionate night with Minerva could be his. Yet what always wonders me even more: These guys learning at least that the sweetheart is their own flesh and blood never get angry at the mother. Obviously it's connected to hormones - though I can't remember Rowlings mentioning a certain "fatherhood hormone" for wizards which switches their brains down - but they never tell the mothers that they found it rather irresponsible keeping a child away from the father or something like that.
But back to the kids and their abilities. I know a bit about genetics and looking at canon Hermione and canon Snape I find it hard to believe that a kid of them would look like a little angel (with black hair of course. And shiny hair, of course. Because Snape actually has shiny hair. Or better said: Silken hair. Or was it shimmering hair? Well, in any case: His kid would inherit this shiny, silken, shimmering hair). And as far as the magical abilities are concerned: The Snape fans may want to tar and feather me for that, but I can't remember where in canon he's described as the wizard with the outstanding abilities. One could even speculate about his skills with a wand being rather average because of his dismay of "silly wand waving". So even Hermione's outstanding abilities wouldn't necessarily make for their child becoming the uber wizard.
As much as I like babies and all our favourite characters becoming happy parents: Let them have "normal" kids! I'm sure that Hermione would be able to love a child to pieces even if it doesn't look like the model child and even if it isn't able to do Legilimency while it still wears nappies.
PS: I beg your pardon for all the mistakes in this post. English isn't my native language ...