DD, LV, Chess and War

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 124343


Valky:
Oh Good thoughts Tonks and Kemper.!

> 
> "Tonks" wrote:
> anyone ever considered the possibility that the series taken as a 
> whole is a game of chess?  

> Kemper now:
> The White Side of the Board [Black Pieces]
> King     - The Dark Order: fear, power, deceit
> Queen    - Voldemort
> Rooks    - Belatrix and Lucius
> Knights  - Wormtail and ?
> Bishops  - Crouch Jr. and ?
> Pawns    - Draco? and 7 others
> 

Valky: 
I'll just first fill in one of your blank spaces, Kemper. 

Bishops - Crouch Jr and Quirrel

If the whole series is the game, then it follows that some chess 
pieces are probably taken from Voldemorts side already. Quirrel was 
definitely a bishop he was able to get *very* close to the 
Victory/King in one move, as was the case with Bart Jr, too.

Kemper:
> The Black Side of the Board
> King     - The Idea of the Light: love, pure, truth
> Queen    - Dumbledore: the most powerful piece
> Rooks    - SS and MM: used mostly in the end-game, quite powerful, 
> especially together
> Knights  - Black and Lupin: used early to develop the board
> Bishops  - Molly and Arthur: see 'Knights'
> Pawns    - Harry, who will reach the eighth square... 
> .... edited... Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Ginny, Fred and George



Valky:
Hmmm, mostly I agree. Except I am not sure of all the pawns. I 
mostly agree with Harry, he is an unfortunately necessary inclusion, 
but in a way he is also the King, so therefore has a great deal of 
protection. 

Now lets look at the actual moves of the game to try and gain more 
perspective.

PS/SS - pure and simple opening attack by the Black Side. LV simple 
moved a few of his pawns/pieces aside/around and sent his Bishop 
straight at the opponent. Dumbledore, didn't 'move' his Harry!Pawn 
though, he created a scenario around Harry!Pawn which set him up to 
be the eventual taker of the Black!Bishop.

COS - hmmm a castling move perhaps? The Rook!Lucius doesn't 
literally come on the attack does he. He does, however, appear to 
have 'taken the position of the LV/King piece', I think this is a 
castling with some pawn/(knight?) attacks from the other side. 
Trying to go for the throat of DD's Bishops. (Retaliatory move after 
DD's pawn claims LV's Bishop?)In which case, Draco is most 
definitely a Black Pawn.

POA - Far more interesting. It *appears* LV has made a big move of 
one of his Knights (Sirius), DD reacts with his best move, drawing 
out his own Knight (Remus) to patrol the squares in front of his 
Harry!Pawn. Both sides chase ghosts in POA, note carefully that Pawn!
Draco and Rook!Lucius go after Hagrid, who isn't a fighting chess 
piece, (Pawn!Hagrid).  
BlackKnight!Wormtail is revealed, and WhiteKnight!Remus with 
WhiteKnight!Sirius go after him but he gives them the slip [Knight 
peice speciality] WK!Remus and WK!Sirius both end up in a pickle, 
where WK!Sirius looks to be immediately taken by BlackPieces... 
(Thats the third time Snape has shown up as a Black piece BTW, look 
it over) so Pawns!HRH are whirled in a cute little sleight of hand 
which allows WK!Sirius to also give the slip.

GOF - OK from the start pieces are all over the board, Rook!Lucius 
left the cosy back squares sometime at the end of COS, and  Bishop!
Arthur soon after, so it follows that these two head on again at the 
beginning of the next set of moves. Rook!Lucius does a dance here, 
he's really not doing anything interesting, but in the background, 
of his dancing there is preparing of a new Blackpiece attack 
formation. The second Black!Bishop soon makes a very strong move 
straight at the Harry!Pawn, wiser now after the last Bishop was 
unpredictably removed by DD's little star pawn-piece, this Bishop 
goes straight at taking Harry !first! this time round. Ok so Harry 
must have been positioned so well defensively, that it wasn't 
actually obvious (speaking strictly chess there) because he manages 
to manouvre back out of the trap, and leave the Bishop unprotected 
for the Queenpower!DD to knock out of the game.

OOtP - Again the pieces are scattered fairly much and some are 
obviously missing from each side. To start with there is an attack 
on Pawn!Harry but it's *not* a game ender (just looks that way. Good 
Chess strategy) so perhaps what we should be looking more closely at 
are the other pieces moving at that time. Lucius is up to no good 
circling some vulnerable white pieces such as Arthur, and some 
plotting goes on to corner Pawn!Harry. DD, OTOH, seems to be 
strategically setting up the board to draw out the LV!Queen. 

When Harry is cornered out comes the big guns, and the WK!s face off 
with the BB!s in an almighty battle shuffle, WK!Sirius is 
taken/sacrificed, and, as the other Knights and Bishops come to a 
draw in their ranks, the Queen Power Pieces face off for a while. 
Suddenly, and surprisingly LV!Queen sets *himself this time* 
straight at Pawn!Harry. By a miracle Pawn!Harry was able to do a 
*tiny* surprise move to save himself, or perhaps it could be that 
some piece was actually within striking distance because of the 
Knight!Sirius sacrifice... either way LV!Queen rushes straight back 
to his home squares, and the next war begins with the pieces this 
way.


Kemper:
> As we approach the end-game, who will be sacrificed in order to 
> capture the White Queen?  And remember, the object of the game is 
to kill the King.


Valky:
And I want to know why Snape keeps turning up as a black piece. 

In PS/SS - Snape followed Quirrel around but DD was never reported 
to about it.
In COS - The opening move to the Parseltongue Harry!SlytherinHeir 
Rumour.
In POA - One of the pieces cornering the WhiteKnight!Sirius in his 
danger spot.
In GOF - The first one where he appears to be *directed* by DD.
In OOtP - There is now a big question mark over Snapes side. He 
moves around in the Whitepiece Home squares but is not *all that 
obviously* part of their strategy of attack. 

Any explanations?