[HPforGrownups] Wizard Photographs

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 7373



Snuffles MacGoo wrote:

> I've been wondering this for some time - about the Wizard pictures - what
> happens when someone dies? Does their image stop moving? What is it that moves?

No, it doesn't stop - harry specificially notes that his parents are waving to him
from the photos in the album hagrid makes for him.

>
> - Gilroy Lockart's photographic image appeared to share his vanity, What else
> might they share? How is they linked? Are you spread to thin if you have
> multiple copies of the same picture made - what effect would it have on you?
> Would your image become sluggish (the more their were)

interesting pondering!

> Some Aboriginal communities believed that photographs 'stole' the soul and
> either photos are forbidden or strongly regulated in those communities. What
> kind of laws (if any) would the wizarding community have around photo's. Can
> you imagine trying to grieve for someone who had recently died only to see
> their image moving around and acting like them? - very weird!

Or very sweet, if that's what you're used to - it's a good, poignant reminder of
how they were whent hey were alive - the same as watching videos -and in the muggle
world, we're going to have something like this within the next year - picture
frames that play digital video clips - so you can have people waving from your
living room end tables.

> And is it only photo's that move - surely some of the people mentioned on the
> collecting cards must have died before the invention of the camera (and its
> subsequent adoption by the Wizard/Witch world). Same sort of process?

I think it's the same thing that animates the painted pictures, like Sir Cadogon &
the Fat Lady in the castle.