Doghead13
Grumpy Old Scottish Biker
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My main problem is that the (I'm guessing) very interesting Americas plotline (which I'm guessing is much more heavily connected to shadowrun, something that I was interested in learning about) starts at the same exact time. My interest in Hermione's well-being and my curiosity (and slight worry) on how her relationship with Harry will develop far outweighed my fledgling interest in the fluff that was going on in Harry's side.
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 dragon do that; big powerful character gets home and discovers that someone they care deeply for has been through An Badde Tyme while they were running around with their head in the clouds. Fairly common in fiction, major difference here is that the Ann Badde Tyme is going on on-screen because the small and squishy character is a secondary protagonist.
It advances multiple subplots - some taken from Shadowrun, some not - really gets the magical North America I pieced together a fragmentary form of (mostly from Shadowrun references and the contents of some discussions on the old Yahoo iteration of the Caer Azkaban mailing list) introduced which is important 'cause that'll be important later, and drops a massive and very much needed wake-up call on Our Protagonists heads. At least, that was ten-years-ago me's rough thought process as far as I can remember.
Course, I don't know what Dunkelzahn is planning with it: this is pretty close to where I started to peter out.