[HPforGrownups] Portraits again

Sun Dec 23 03:41:20 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 32106

--- Elizabeth Dalton 

> I was just reading the Christmas scenes in GoF and
> the Fat Lady and her friend
> Vi are tipsy from chocolate liqueur cordials.
> 
> Eh?? How does one give cordials to a painting? 

   Logically by painting a still life of a box, or
boxes of chocolate cordials which the various portrait
figures can then enter and retrieve at will.

Does
> Dumbledore have someone on
> staff who is able to paint magical pictures of
> goodies to give to the portraits
> for Christmas? (Nice touch, considering all the work
> they do as house guardians
> and general chaperones.)

   It would be interesting to know exactly how the
moving paintings are produced. Judging by their vast
number it can't be a particularly arcane or difficult
spell though presumably artistic as well as magical
talent is required. Could it be something in the
paints? Didn't somebody say moving photographs were
produced by a special developing fluid?

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