Another subtle code that was used that month -- Sally-Anne did, in fact, bring a chess set to the Strettons with her, but she arranged with her friends to use the chess sets as a proxy for describing what was happening over hols, since PMs weren't an option.
Sally-Anne posted on the 23rd:
It started with the queen complaining that the queen's side knight wasn't doing a proper job of it. I think he'd taken an opposing piece but she thought he hadn't brandished his sword as much as he should. He called her an interfering old noserag, which is a pretty disrespectful way for a knight to talk to the queen, and the king must have agreed because he started shouting at the knight and that whole side of the board blew up, all the pieces shouting at each other. Meanwhile the white pieces just sat there and stared, they didn't know what to think.
This was about Mrs Stretton chewing out Jeremy for spending too much time on quidditch and not enough on his studies / the family business, Jeremy cursing her out, and Mr Stretton jumping in to shout at Jeremy for being insolent.
Neville, later in the month:
One of the white knights had been missing from the box for awhile, and now that it's back with the rest of the pieces, she seems to be quite intent on ordering it around. It's as if she doesn't trust it to make its moves properly.
And Pansy:
P.S. My Queen and one of the pawns in the chess set I took home keep getting into it, but what's so weird is the pawn is actually holding its own (the Queen is older than moss). The other pieces are just watching though I think the Bishop and the King are taking bets. Odds are pawn, right now.
I can't remember why I decided that some of the Hogwarts chess sets were mad. I think I just felt like the chess tournament needed something more interesting than actual chess.
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Date: 2015-09-23 03:19 am (UTC)Sally-Anne posted on the 23rd:
It started with the queen complaining that the queen's side knight wasn't doing a proper job of it. I think he'd taken an opposing piece but she thought he hadn't brandished his sword as much as he should. He called her an interfering old noserag, which is a pretty disrespectful way for a knight to talk to the queen, and the king must have agreed because he started shouting at the knight and that whole side of the board blew up, all the pieces shouting at each other. Meanwhile the white pieces just sat there and stared, they didn't know what to think.
This was about Mrs Stretton chewing out Jeremy for spending too much time on quidditch and not enough on his studies / the family business, Jeremy cursing her out, and Mr Stretton jumping in to shout at Jeremy for being insolent.
Neville, later in the month:
One of the white knights had been missing from the box for awhile, and now that it's back with the rest of the pieces, she seems to be quite intent on ordering it around. It's as if she doesn't trust it to make its moves properly.
And Pansy:
P.S. My Queen and one of the pawns in the chess set I took home keep getting into it, but what's so weird is the pawn is actually holding its own (the Queen is older than moss). The other pieces are just watching though I think the Bishop and the King are taking bets. Odds are pawn, right now.
I can't remember why I decided that some of the Hogwarts chess sets were mad. I think I just felt like the chess tournament needed something more interesting than actual chess.