Read a Book; Create a Mate: Anastasia's Wizard Mate

One day, I suppose there will be a Harry Potter Checkmate.  Did you see that live chess battle in the first movie?  Looked like fun!  Anastasia, like Harry, was a character in a book.  I'm pretty sure she wasn't a wizard actually, but that's okay.  Clearly anyone can play chess.

This checkmate kind of looks like a Back Rank Mate or Side-File Mate (sometimes called "sci-fi mate").  Notice how the knight cuts off the king's escape squares, while the rook gives checkmate.  You always need some piece giving check, otherwise it can't be checkmate!

Now try a mate in two.  Sometimes you get to sacrifice to open up the h-file, or side-file, for the other rook.

Anastasia Romanov's Family

Have you made your own checkmate yet?  Try another Anastasia's Mate in three. Each move is forcing (check).

(Ron as a pretty seriously hard-nosed knight.)

Voila!  You ready for a tough one?!  Really?  Okay, this puzzle is both white to play AND black to play.  When white goes first it's a mate in two.  It's a variation on the Anastasia's Mate, also called Sci-Fi mate, here. 

I'm not going to tell you the answer for black to move!!  It's a mate in five, and you have to sac twice, then give up the exchange!  Do you have the answer?