Let's say..even if everyone writes 2 posts per week, if we're left to our own machinations we won't even get out of our initial "hello-nice-to-meet-you" conversations after a month. Had a casual RP and even after 6 months of everyone posting thrice per week we still didn't get past the first week of IC time. So I vote that we need time skips. Say, after an event is over, a few more conversations later there is a time skip to the beginning of our next event. We can discuss how our characters connected with each other during that time OOC. Now for the events. What were the things that captivated you while reading the books and/or watching the movies? The action, the mystery, the magic, the quest line. Each one of them had a main quest line. From finding the evil thing/person that resides in the castle and is killing students to fighting enemies out in the muggle world or finding a magical item crucial to the quest. From the beginning til the end, the main characters handled challenge after challenge not a moment of boring.