The chess game in SS/PS, quidditch, and Snape's potion puzzle...

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 109553

> "K":
> I'm a huge Snape fan but I must admit I've been putting 
> together a list of reasons why I believe my favorite character is 
> nothing more than a pawn.  :-( 
> 
> Pawn: A person used by another to gain an end.
> 
> Wouldn't you know one of my reasons involves a chess game between 
> Harry and Ron in OoP. Ron and Harry are playing chess when Mrs. 
> Weasley walks in the room 
> and tells Harry that Professor Snape is there to see him. Harry at 
> first doesn't pay attention to what Molly has said. Harry and Ron 
> continue with their chess game.
> "Harry dear, said Mrs. Weasley, poking her head into his and Ron's 
> bedroom..."
> "Professor Snape would like a word with you." 
> Harry did not immediately register what she had said. One of his 
> castles was engaged in a violent tussle with a pawn of Ron's, and 
> he was egging it on enthusiastically.
> "Squash him --- **squash him**, he's only a pawn, you idiot.Sorry, 
> Mrs. Weasley, what did you say?"
> 
> "Professor Snape, dear."
> oop/ch 24/pg 517/us
> 
> Yes, the most exciting character in the book is nothing more than 
a pawn.  ::sigh:: 
> ~Harry fretted about this next to the fire in the Gryffindor 
common room, while Ron and Hermione used their time off to play a 
game of wizard chess.
> 
> "For heaven's sake, Harry," said Hermione, exasperated, as one of 
> Ron's bishops wrestled her knight off his horse and dragged him 
off the board. "Go and *find* Justin if it's so important to you."
> cos/ch 11/pg 197-198
> 



Valky:
REALLY Good "K"!

By this comparison are you saying that Justin Finch-Fletchley is one 
of the two pieces mentioned here on the board?
I am seriously intrigued.