Thanks! So glad the Ron/Lucius dynamic works for you as well as for me :). And you really put the finger on something here... The two are on the same wavelength, in a way, both for wanting to be chess masters (anyone writing a chess battle fic between those two will have my everlasting love and adoration!), but they're also flawed ones, hampered in their ambitions by the 'higher power' of Harry and Voldemort, and both plagued by temper...