The Potter Twins and the Sorcerer's Stone

Ron's Noble Gambit

Ron's POV:

After comforting Rose and allowing her to release her inner thoughts and emotions about her dear friend Faith, we continued down the corridor of the trap door. We then came across a huge hall filled with black and white colored squares, and life-sized pieces of something. I had trouble figuring out what it was....and then I realized.

"Um....guys where are we?" Harry asked.

"Harry......it's a chessboard." I replied nervously.

And indeed it was; a giant, human sized chessboard filled with one color on each side, and correctly placed in order.

"Hey! Look, there's a door on the other side!" Rose shouted. She tried to walk over to it through the other side's chess pieces. Suddenly, the statues came to life and blocked her from going past them; Hermione grabbed her out of the way and prevented her from getting injured.

"So....what do we do now?" Hermione asked timidly.

I walked to the center of the board, studying the chessboard. "Alright, Harry, you'll take the empty bishop's square, Hermione.....hmm.....you'll be the Queen's castle. Rose, you'll take the king's-side castle space by Harry.....and as for me.....I'll be a knight."

Everyone moved to their assigned space on our side and prepared for battle.

"Wait...your saying we're actually going to play the game??" Rose asked me.

I looked at her with a saddened expression, "That's exactly what we're going to do. White moves first, and then.....we play." 

Just like that, white's pawn moved to C4. 

"Wait Ronald...." Hermione started.

"What Hermione?" 

"You don't actually think this is....real....wizard's chess do you?"

And then it hit me.....perhaps she's right...maybe this is a real wizard's chess. "Pawn to D4......Let's see if it's true then."

The pawn I called moved to D4. My heart basically stopped when the opposing piece smashed my pawn to bits. I could tell everyone was terrified at this point.

"To answer your question...yes Hermione....I think this is a real wizard's chess.."

I took a breath and a moment to calm myself.....I examined the board and began to make a plan...the only way for the others to get to Snape, will be for someone to make a sacrifice to move over and check the king.....and that sacrifice would be me. 

And so it began. I called out my second move....and a long, courageous battle began. It took a while for my plan to finally get to where I wanted it and now the time has come.

"Harry...I am going to move my knight to check....then you are free to claim the king."

"No! Absolutely not!" Harry replied.

"Harry, what is it?" Hermione asked.

"Ron's going to sacrifice himself so that I can checkmate the king!"

"No! There has to be another way!"

"Please, don't do it..." Rose said.

"For bloody sake. Harry, do you want to prevent Snape from getting that stone or not?...Look, it's you and Rose that need to do this. There's a reason you were chosen to be You-Know-Who's number 1 enemies. Not me! Not Hermione! You two!" I said confidently.

The twins looked at each other and then nodded at me in agreement.

Rose was trying to hold back tears so I smiled at her, saying; "It'll be okay. I'm tougher than you think."

She smiled sadly before I turned to the board again. 

"Knight to A5..", the knight piece moved to the square and came into line of the queen. My breathing stopped as she began to get closer and closer to my space. She stopped right in front of me and I swear, I think she had a gleam in her marble eye. She picked up her spear and pulled it back. And all I remember was being hit, and darkness all around.

Third-person POV:

"Ron!!" Hermione and Rose shouted worriedly in sync. They tried to even move to get to him.

"NO! Don't move! Don't forget, were still playing!" I then took it upon myself to move to the king. I looked up at his stiff figure and made my move. "Checkmate!"

The king's sword dropped and the game was over. I looked up at him once more before rushing over to get to Ron. The three of us checked his unconscious body before agreeing upon a plan. Hermione said she would bring Ron up to the Hospital Wing and send an urgent owl to Dumbledore, while Harry and Rose continued their way to the stone. And so it was settled; the twins went through the now opened door, and Hermione stayed behind to help Ron.