THE HOGWARTS UNDERGROUND CHESS SOCIETY    Hogwarts castle morphed along with its inhabit

THE HOGWARTS UNDERGROUND CHESS SOCIETY     Hogwarts castle morphed along with its inhabitants’ secrets. Whims and wars lay groundwork for hidden rooms and protection spells that trickled silently through the generations, forgotten until some intrepid student dared to push a little further into the shadows.    Twenty years passed before the underground chambers were uncovered again. Their purpose fulfilled, the chambers protected little but rubble and rusted keys… and an impressively large chessboard that filled the fourth room, complete with life-sized pieces that sprang to life with a touch.    But they would obey no commands until a player took the place of one of the pieces.    Playing the board became a rite of passage for daring Wizard’s Chess enthusiasts. The best—and some say, the most merciless—of such students formed the Underground Chess Society, the school’s first secret society since the war. Ascension was bloody, for rising in their ranks required playing head-to-head games to completion, and a win no longer necessarily required felling a king; having a knight draw its sword on a classmate forced to stand in for the bishop would do just as well. And the more one played, the less one hesitated to make the move…[ ficlets by hpedit ] -- source link

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