Hey guys, this is just a quick update on my story for any of you who have been wondering where I've been for the past 8 months. I know that some of you are really looking forward to this story and I really appreciate your feedback, but the reason I haven't updated in so long is because I've struggled with what direction I should take this story in. I found it quite difficult deciding whether the story should feature more aspects of the svtfoe tv series or the harry potter books. As you can probably see I've leaned more toward the harry potter books because they are more popular and have more story to build on than the svtfoe series presently does. I also felt as if I wasn't really enjoying how this story was written so far, which caused me to be hesitant to make a new chapter. I feel as though I made a bit of a mistake doing the huge time skip from the sorting ceremony to Halloween, and the original purpose of this was to get through first year rather quickly, as I don't find it all that exciting, but I later realized that there could be a lot of potential for first year since so many things have changed from canon.
I'm gonna use this update to answer the few questions I've gotten and tell you all how I plan to approach the rest of this story. First of all, I will most likely be continuing it, but don't get your hopes up for common updates, in the future I will try to make sure that each chapter meets my expectation before publishing. However, now that it's summer I should have a lot more time on my hands to work on my fics. I've been working more on other ideas right now involving the Percy Jackson universe however which takes up most of my writing time. I'm attempting to have at least ten premade chapters though before I start publishing so that I don't leave you guys with too long of a time period between updates.
On to reviewer questions. As for Ron being in the story, I didn't plan on including him, but if I get enough requests to include him, I will try to add him into the group eventually. My original plan was to have a group of four friends, with one from each house so that it would have a theme of house unity throughout the book and also strengthen each of their friendships since they would be getting constant backlash from the other houses for their friendship. As for Star's family heirlooms and stuff, those won't be present for a while if at all. The reason is that Star only receives these things when she turns fourteen in the series and obviously she isn't fourteen yet. I might put something in before the fourth book starts about Star maybe getting her spell book but I'm not sure how to approach the wand situation considering that she already has one. I could do something like her having both wands, and the family wand will be able to cast only family spells or Star's own made up spells, while the normal wand will be able to cast spells from the Harry Potter universe.
Finally, I would like you guys to give me feedback on whether you want me to slow first year down and maybe fix some of the stuff or if you want me to stick with the big time skips until second year so we can skip the first year fluff. Again I write for you guys, so I don't want to start working on anything new until I get some feedback from you all about what direction you want this story to take. Unfortunately it usually takes a while to get feedback since this is such a small genre and I know that many of the people who read this story may not find it all that interesting but it would help a lot.
Thank you all for reading. I will try to get another update out about how this story will move forward as soon as I have decided.