Chess Flint?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 19007

Rejoice with me! My husband has finished book 1! And true to form, he of
course found something that I could not answer. [I've been on the group
a while, and I don't think I've seen this mentioned, but I don't catch
everything--apologies if it's known and/or discussed already.]

It's in the chess game at the end of the book.

<begin quote>
    'We're not offended,' said Harry quickly. 'Just tell us what to do.'

    'Well, Harry, you take the place of that bishop, and Hermione, you
go next to him instead of that castle.'
    'What about you?'
    'I'm going to be a knight,' said Ron.
<end quote>
p. 282, SS

Jan's observation was that on a chessboard, the bishop is not next to
the castle. The lineup is
[castle]-[knight]-[bishop]-[K/Q]-[K/Q]-[bishop]-[knight]-[castle].
Jan said that it sounded as though Ron's directions have it
[castle]-[bishop]-[knight], if Hermione-the-castle is next to
Harry-the-bishop. But on neither end are bishops next to castles.

I pointed out that Hermione could have been standing toward the other
end of the lineup, so that Ron was saying for her to take the castle
nearest to Harry, instead of at the other end. This sounded weak,
though, even to chess-unsavvy me. Any thoughts? Has he spotted a Flint?

--Amanda