Wizard’s chess in the Harry Potter movie – Euaas Niaz’s goosebump moment

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The magical chessboard

One of the most curious scenes in the first of the movie “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” is the magical chessboard. After a hard first year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter has made two good friends: Hermione Granger, a very nice girl, and Ron Weasley, a young man somewhat absent-minded but very fond of chess, specifically magical chess.

The fact is that chasing the elusive Professor Snape, who they believe wants to steal the philosopher’s stone which will give him immortality, the three little wizards must go through several tests that keep the powerful treasure. One of them is none other than a life-size magical chess.

Each of the characters is placed as a piece to play taking the black ones since the white ones are the ones guarding the passage. Hermione occupies the queenside rook square, Harry the position of a bishop and Ron gets on a knight. The game goes on with a dedicated Ron leading the black side, deciding the moves, and trying to defeat the white pieces commanded by the aggressive queen.

“The Philosopher’s Stone”

The plot of this movie begins when Harry Potter, as a baby orphan survivor of an evil curse employed by a dark wizard, is left at his aunt and uncle’s house, the Dursleys. Harry grew up in the house of his aunt and uncle who hid his true family history from him, and shortly before his birthday he began receiving letters from Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but his uncle would not allow him to read them, and they moved to a house in the middle of nowhere so they would not be found.

However, the night Harry turned eleven, Hagrid appeared to take him to Hogwarts, and that was how Harry learned that he was a wizard and that his parents did not die in a car accident as his aunt and uncle had told him, but were killed by Voldemort, the same one who used the curse on him and as a result he got the scar on his forehead.

The Dursleys tried to prevent them from leaving for school, but Hagrid and Harry managed to get out. That same day, they went to Diagon Alley to buy the school supplies Harry needed to begin his studies in magic and there he discovered that he was famous among wizards.

Sometime later, Harry takes the Hogwarts Express train to Hogwarts, where he meets Ron Weasley, a red-haired boy son of wizards, and Hermione Granger, a very intelligent girl daughter of Muggles. When they arrive at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the three of them enter the same Gryffindor house, after being chosen by the Sorting Hat.

The Saga

The film saga, inspired by the books written by J.K. Rowling, became a success since 2001, when the first Harry Potter movie was released. This is thanks to the story that grew along with its protagonists, the unforgettable trio of Harry, Hermione and Ron, played by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. The vision of various directors endowed the films with a singular magic.

According to the demands of writer J. K. Rowling, the main characters, and most of the rest of the characters, had to be played by actors of the same nationality as their fictional counterparts. Thus, the auditions for the trio of protagonists were focused on finding three children of English nationality. In the case of the adult actors, this requirement was also respected, with a few exceptions.