If you keep picturing Ron or Hermione or Draco when you are writing these characters you're going to unconsciously write them as those characters. And then you aren't just shooting yourself in the foot, you're opening up on it with a minigun and freaking rocket launcher! Giving your characters their own appearance not only helps the reader see them as characters in their own right it helps you differentiate them. A sizeable chunk of humanity are highly visual creatures - if a picture is worth a thousand words then making a good amount of your cast look like characters you're trying to tell us they aren't is like writing a thousand words telling us that they are exactly those characters before you even start. But you aren't going to escape the comparisons so if you want the book(s) to be successful you need make them your books, not JK Rowling's with different colour curtains. So does that mean you shouldn't bother? Not at all. Heck, works written substantially before it still get compared to it and accused of riding on it's coat tails. To a certain extent this is going to be par for the course for some time for any books dealing with school-based magic shenanigans, in the same way that any space saga is going to face comparisons to Star Wars or Star Trek. Some readers might pick it up on that basis - an attempt at scratching the itch for more Potter where none exists but I think it would be relatively few, and for them and everyone else it would likely never escape the shadow of it. And from the description it feels like that's what you're doing - honestly it feels like a off-brand Harry Potter. But there's a difference between drawing inspiration and merely imitating. There's very little new under the sun - many of the elements and themes of the Harry Potter series are drawn from preceding works and that's not really a problem. While it's difficult to say from the description alone whether you'd have any outright legal issues with the similarities I think there's another problem here - whether the book is too similar to stand on it's own merits. P.S: in my novel, Wizards are rare but the non wizards know that there are wizards. Will readers discredit and always compare a magic school to Hogwarts? Will people like it no matter if it's a bit different? Will anyone read a novel on a magic school? I won't go in too detail! I editted it whole to make out my point! In the gurukul system of India, students were trained hard but I don't want them to suffer a lot. In the first book, I plan to write about Ryan and his friends struggling in the school due to it's strict rules and finds about a book which guides them to make Wanthlers like before. I thought sometimes to change the idea of a school but my heart reminds me that I want to write about teenagers and them training at a magic school! They use wands but before they buy them, they do something like a ritual so that the wand becomes loyal to it's owner. Also JKR was not the first to write about a magic school but Harry Potter is too popular. I have a fear that will anyone read my book. I develop my system and character in every book. I planned a novel series of 7,wherein in the early books, wizards fight for their rights. Situated in Netherlands, The school of Wanthlers is too strict, residential. The school has houses wherein wizards are sorted into houses which have different subjects upon their ability. It is called Wanthlers! The school is a castle wherein young wizards go for learning magic. My book includes a magic school which is more like the gurukul system of India.
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