I know they're kind of common but I haven't seen a Harry Potter RP around here for a while [meaning I searched for when the last one was; I haven't actual been around on this site too long]. Anyways, I'm reading GOF and am jacked for the next movie and so I'm constantly in an HP mood, so I kinda want to start a Hogwarts RP... But I'm not really sure how to develop a defined plot around that. Like would it be too boring and lacking in plot to just have people go through the school year in whatever year they please mainly interacting with other students and experiencing the magic world, with occasional balls and organized Order/Death Eater skirmishes? Or would it be more plausible to gear the entire RP around being in the Order and constantly on missions fighting DE's? But that might just be too...strict and not offer that much freedom for RP'ing, ya dig? Would anyone even want to join something like those?
So the dilemma: chance the RP being too loose and uneventful, or too strict and high action/intense, or scrap it all together?
Woo for questions.