SV: [HPforGrownups] Wizard Photographs

[Sara Ludwig]

No: HPFGUIDX 7459

I think it's stored memories that make the pictures move.
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  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.



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