[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Photos

No: HPFGUIDX 23636

 --- Sofie  <sofie_elisabeth at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > --- In
HPforGrownups at y..., jll3sonex at h... wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps the photos are like a 5-second time snippet - and the 
> > feelings are recorded as well as the image.  Heck, I think I'd 
> refuse 
> > to be seen with Lockhart too...
> 
> But didn't Percy's girlfriend's photo hide under the frame when she 
> got spots on her nose, this suggests that photos change as their 
> subject does. I haven't got the book with me but I think that quote 
> is in the first couple of chapters of POA, but I could be wrong. And 
> when one of the twins poured tea on the photo she hid again, I think.

It seems fairly well established that wizard photographs move, where
muggle photographs do not. I can't quote chapter and book, but there
was also the case of a student at Hogwarts born of muggle parents who
brought a poster of his favourite football team, and the wizarding
children were amazed that the picture *didn't* move.

One thing that hasn't been brought up is the difference between
individual photographs (the one of Harry and Lockhart), mass produced
photographs (chocolate frog cards), and painted portraits.  Making a
wizard photograph does seem to stamp a certain amount of the sitter's
personality into the image, but it does seem that individual
photographs appear to have more of their sitter's "personality" than
the mass produced ones (not discounting that the original that the mass
produced image was replicated from might be more individual).

Producing a painted portrait takes a considerable amount of time. It
does not seem surprising that the Hogwarts portraits have more
individuality, personality, and volition than a mere photograph.  But
once the portrait is painted, does it retain the personality of the
sitter, or does its singular experience as a portrait affect that
personality as time goes on?  Was Sir Cadogan, the sitter for the
portrait, as mad as his image, or did the image go mad after being
placed on canvas?

I don't have any answers, but I do wonder.

Likewise, another question: do you suppose it rains/snows &c. in wizard
landscapes?


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Respectfully,
Morgan

"Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes."

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