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  1. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    For some reason the term 'hamlet' isn't used in Scotland, I don't know why - we include places on that size range in the term village. You'll sometimes see places such as where I grew up referred to as 'crofting townships', though I've never heard that term used by a local and in fact first...

  2. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Been on a bit of a mental spiral around the description of the terrain in the early parts of the latest segment of fic. That rabbit hole led me to a couple of photodiaries from tourism in the area of Scotland I established for Hogwarts back when this was my fic. For anyone interested, here's...

  3. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    As ever don't take my word for it, this hasn't been my fic in a decade plus, but the contrast in tone was very deliberate. Take the big powerful character and have them going on a wild carefree gallivant because, hell, why wouldn't a kid (even a nice kid) who found themselves turned into a big...

  4. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Sorry it took me a while to respond, been caught up in RL. It's over ten years since I read any canon Shadowrun material so there's a very good chance I'm utterly misremembering. ANYWAY almost certain it munging up oil production is canon (this being what I was referring to in that post) and...

  5. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    It's taken directly from Shadowrun. As a side note, this entire subplot started out via taking the cod-fanon 'head of house privileges' thing to the exceedingly nasty logical conclusion a lot of authors seems to ignore when they throw these things out. It's one of the first times I took a...

  6. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    (SNIP the list) Huh. I did indeed thoroughly misremember it. Useful.

  7. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Am I misremembering what was on the list in Harry's acceptance letter? IIRC that letter was the nearest thing we have to an actual description.

  8. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    The films are not in keeping with what JKR wrote, save for the first few. As soon as Harry and company start turning up at the school wearing street clothes, there's where it diverges from the books on that front. As usual JKRs descriptions aren't very tight, and most of what we know from...

  9. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Unlikely. Dunkelzahn is American; this is far from the only blatant Americanism in his version of the fic. The first one I noticed was use of the word 'fall' to describe autumn. At some point I may go through Britpicking the entire thing, but I'm not sure I can be arsed.

  10. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    What the hell does a reptile have to do with a creature made out of iron, hot-blooded to the point of 'hot enough to boil lead', and aptly described as 'a living blast furnace', whose body flat out doesn't run on the same laws of physics as the rest of the universe? Do you seriously think...

  11. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Bear in mind that you grew up human, while this Harry is very distinctly not. He is, at the end of the day, a member of a very alien species and his resulting physiological development (and the development of sexuality is very definitely a part of that) isn't the same as it would have been if...

  12. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Blame Rowling for that one, it's taken directly from Potter canon.

  13. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Are you seriously promoting the derpiest possible form of authorial masturbation?

  14. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Except that one of the most revealing anomalies - specifically the Chamber of Secrets, and no I don't just mean its entrance - we know existed virtually unchanged from the time of the Founding. That's a fifteenth century vault. And, um, the fabric of the Great Hall is about a century too new...

  15. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    The statement in canon is a thousand years, I forget where it's stated in the books but it's canonical info. That puts the most likely date of construction sometime in the tenth century - giving it some flexibility in both directions call it somewhere between about 940 and 1040, though as ever...

  16. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    I don't know about this fic, but what I built out for my current stuff is, because at the time the castle was constructed Hogwarts was the first modern-style school of magic in western Europe, possibly hands-down the first ever - the catchment area at the Founding included most of Scandanavia...

  17. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Not in hiding: asleep. The level of magic in the world is too low for them to be up and about quite yet - in that sense, Harry's running on the dragon equivalent of a jumbo-sized can of Red Bull courtesy of Avebury. They're from Shadowrun, their ages are in the low tens of thousands, and...

  18. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    Consider the entire theme of the story: change. The Wizarding World is in a state of monumental population boom and has been since Krakatoa went up. Those circia 66,000 muggleborns? That's not the children of muggleborns, not 'halfbloods', that's wizards and witches with two nonmagical parents...

  19. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    You seem to be operating under the impression that magic is on/off, that you either have it or do not, that everyone is playing at the same power level and capable of throwing around the same level of destructive magic. Short version: it's not. They're not. This has been discussed in-story, and...

  20. Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter/Shadowrun)

    What, exactly, do you think some 75+% of 'dark lords' are?
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