Thanks for your comment, and I'm glad you liked it - good to hear from you again! It's quite true that Snape, as a character, has many literary antecedants; Kay, from "The Sword in the Stone" had occured to me as a jealous older brother; like many other readers, I'd also thought of Darcy, and Rogueravenclaw and Sigune repectively have mentioned "Wuthering Heights" and "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell". But what fascinates me about this particular influence (if it is one) is that Dominic strongly resembles both Harry and Snape.* This tends to confirm my own feeling that Harry and Snape are themselves very alike; so much so that they are practically aspects of the same person, even though both are strong characters in their own right. The other literary antecedants just don't make this point so clear. Nor is there the strong emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation in the other literary examples, IMHO.
(* note: As I said, Dominic is a great deal nicer, as a person, than either Harry or Snape. The people who seem to be translated to the potterverse with scarcely any change are uncle Ambrose, Rickie, and the spoiled children Neville and Diana - shades of Draco and Pansy, as well as Dudley.)
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Date: 2007-02-23 06:49 pm (UTC)(* note: As I said, Dominic is a great deal nicer, as a person, than either Harry or Snape. The people who seem to be translated to the potterverse with scarcely any change are uncle Ambrose, Rickie, and the spoiled children Neville and Diana - shades of Draco and Pansy, as well as Dudley.)