Post DH meaning of PS/SS chess game.

[potioncat]

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> Zara:
> Well, if it did nothing else, it dramatized for the first time a 
> motif (? hope I used the right word there...) that is repeated 
> through the series - someone making a sacrifice so that others could 
> go on to achieve hoped for successes. Regulus, dying in the hope that 
> when Voldemort meets his match, he is mortal, and Harry, making sure 
> there are survivors who know to kill Nagini, and facing death in the 
> same hope, are notable later examples.


Potioncat:
This chess match did generate a lot of threads in its time! I agree 
with all of above, snipped and unsnipped.

But the motif of sacrifice reminded me, Ron thought he would die when 
the Queen destroyed the knight. Harry protested, but Ron insistend that 
Harry had to be the one to go on.

Potioncat (hoping she remembers canon and not TMTMNBN.)