Art: Nineteen Years Later (G)

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I am adding the final touches to a short Snape/Brynhild fic for the current challenge at romancingwizard, as well as working on a rewrite of my pre-DH post-HBP Snape family saga, and all the Snape shipping on my mind finally got me to draw a picture of which I had been thinking for a while - a joint portrait of Snape and Brynhild's children *g*. Here they are, nineteen years after Voldemort's defeat: Alba and Alexander Snape.









If I had invented the Snapelings after DH, I don't think I would have had Snape and Brynhild call their firstborn Alba, but up to HBP it still looked as though Dumbledore had been a kind of substitute father to Snape... Ah well.

Snape wishes that his daughter would stop smoking, but as he keeps smoking himself, Alba does not feel obliged to listen to him. He also wishes that his son would wear his hair short, but as he wears it long himself, Xander thinks there is no reason to obey.

This was done with Faber-Castell PITT pens, Tombow markers and Koh-I-Noor watercolour pencils.

Comments

[bluestocking79.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic! Alba's still stunning in red, and I like that they both have Brynhild's curls. Xander's topknot is particularly cool.

I like the echoes of both parents here. Xander,in particular, looks like Snape without the biiterness--but he also strikes me as being a touch more masculine than his father. Maybe it's because Alba's the one who inherited her father's taste in shoes? ;-)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait a minute! I never made Snape wear stilettos, you must be confusing me with someone else! ;P

...Nah, I know. Alba is closest to her father in terms of character as well. Xander is more relaxed and confident.

It's fun to imagine the younger generation. Almost makes me understand why JKR wrote the Epilogue ;-)...