DD, LV, Chess and War

[bleckybecs]

No: HPFGUIDX 124373


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?


Becky:

Just to add my few thoughts to this. My chess playing experience is 
fairly limited due to the fact that my brother well and truly beats 
me every time we play (just to point out for my own reputation, my 
playing isn't all that bad, but his *is* all that good. He has an 
impressive record for 19 yrs old - Primary school champion 3 times, 
Island Junior Champion twice, high school champion more times than I 
care to count and he has beaten the Island Adult champion before he 
became too ill to play regularly. Highly depressing for me then
) 
however, I will try to say something helpful. 

According to my brother, the way I play is obvious and open. He is 
*not* obvious. He can clearly see which way I'm looking, where I'm 
expecting attack. He gives me good reasons to think those things, 
when all the time it is a completely different piece that is going 
to do the damage. It's very rarely, if ever, a pawn that does the 
final damage, but in the case of HP we are saying that he will reach 
the other side to become another queen. It is very often this piece 
that is my downfall.  I don't realise it until I can't do anything 
about it.

However, your question was about SS. Again, I go back to the idea 
that the final moves come from somewhere unexpected, a piece that 
either doesn't outwardly appear to be doing much or a piece that 
doesn't seem to have a place in the final moves at all. It is that 
piece that becomes the decider. That piece is the one that ruins any 
of my plans.  It may look to me as though it has cornered something, 
but in actual fact it is there protecting something else, either by 
physically blocking the `something else' or by diverting attention 
from it. (I'm normally sat there saying 'what is the deal with that 
piece!!', much like the theories about whether SS is ESE! or not).

My guess is that this is the role SS is playing. He turns up as a 
black piece because of this blocking idea, to `through you off the 
scent' sort of idea. Just as an example of this in action, in PS I 
don't understand what he was doing. His trailing of Quirrell doesn't 
appear to work for either side. From the light side point of view, 
he doesn't look to be reporting to DD and would appear to have blown 
any cover as Spy!Snape. From the dark side point of view, he gives 
the impression of working for DD. You (Vaulky) seem to be saying 
that he turns up here as a black piece, but I would say that, from 
canon, it would seem to render him useless to both sides!

However, I do believe him to be working for DD and I do believe that 
in some way he *will* set the final moves up. He will be 
instrumental. He is clearly hiding something and I'm sure that he is 
working in a protective role (probably by spying or similar, judging 
by his reports in OOTP). I think he will be that deciding piece. He 
won't win it though, that has to be Pawn/Queen!Harry (well duh!). 

Becky who hopes this is useful and makes sense!