[HPforGrownups] Re: Chess Flint?

[devika261 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19024

In a message dated 5/19/01 8:04:10 PM EST, blpurdom at yahoo.com writes:

<< Oops.  Should have read all my mail before I asked. 
 But I do think I have a possible explanation for the
 chess situation.  Perhaps the real problem with
 getting past McGonagall's chess set is that the pieces
 were already arranged in such a manner that only a
 grand master could have worked out how to win.  If the
 pieces weren't in the starting position, this would
 explain the odd placement of the bishop and castle
 whose roles Harry and Hermione played.
  >>
IIRC, Harry, Ron, and Hermione took the place of the black players, and Ron 
pointed out the fact that white would move first.  That would imply that the 
pieces were in the starting position.  

Amanda wrote:
<>

I think that could be right.  Ron could just have been specifying which 
castle Hermione should be, which would make sense regardless of which side 
she was standing on.
:)  Devika