Chess Flint?

[rick824 at webtv.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 19009

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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 

  Whats a Flint?... Rick