paintings / pedigree / Cho / Hello! Questions / The Heirs?

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No: HPFGUIDX 32123

Rowena Grunnion-Fitch wrote:

> 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?

As best I recall, we haven't seeing moving paintings anywhere except 
at Hogwarts. We haven't seen any at Diagon Alley or the Burrow, and 
we haven't visited Malfoy Manor in canon. Perhaps there is a 
relatively vast number of animated paintings at Hogwarts and none or 
few anywhere else. Hogwarts is an extremely magical place; I imagine 
that unwanted or excessively troublesome or need to be protected 
powerful magical artifacts have been fetching up there for a thousand 
years. The paintings might be rare and valuable pieces of powerful 
magic, but too obnoxious for previous owners to endure living with, 
so they all got donated to the old school.

The people in the paintings not only move, but speak and interact 
with real people and people from other paintings. The people in the 
paintings appear to BE people, judging from they can only be put on 
guard duty at Gryffindor House entrance if they are willing. The 
people in the photographs apparently only move. They apparently don't 
speak or visit other photographs. I think the people in the photos 
are more like videos than like people.

Katze wrote:

> Why isn't Harry considered a pure-blood? Both his parents were 
> wizards. His mother was a half-blood...not Harry.

According to canon, Harry's mother was Muggle-born: both her parents 
were Muggles. The rude mouths would call her a Mudblood. The racists 
would go so far as to call her a Muggle (as in the Death Eater riot 
at the QWC in GoF, where Draco tells Hermione to hide from the 
rioters because they're hunting Muggles). Thus Harry is considered 
Halfblood: half pureblood (his father) and half Muggle-born (his 
mother).

Jenny from Ravenclaw wrote:

> I don't think Harry will date Cho either. I've said this before,
> but I just feel it would be in poor taste for Harry to pursue Cho
> after witnessing the murder of her boyfriend.

He doesn't have to pursue her to get together with her. She could 
seek him out to ask about Cedric's death and tell him that she 
doesn't blame him, he could try to comfort her a little, they could 
meet occasionally to commiserate (over trying to lead normal lives 
when people keep staring at them and pointing, over Quidditch, over 
difficulties of combining Muggle and wizarding lives -- I think Cho 
is Muggle-born) and over a year or so, it could blossom into 
something more. I don't really think that is how JKR is going to play 
it, but it COULD happen. I think it would be a good pairing.

Hey, Maud Slytherin Queen, I saw your post on H/C after I typed the 
above. Not forgetting Cho's tears is a reason why he would try to 
comfort her instead of just brushing her off. Btw, there is a 
magnificient Snape-ocentric fanfic about a girl named Maude who 
transfers to Slytherin from Durmstrang... 

Athena Asamiya wrote:

> 1) Someone told me that Severus Snape is a vampire, is it true?
> 2) Book 5 is said to be released in London. What is the story all
> about?

JKR has never said that Severus Snape is a vampire. Some people 
believe that it is one of the surprises she has up her sleeve. Book 5 
has not been released anywhere and the publishers have put out press 
releases that they have no idea when JKR will finish it. She said, 
during GoF publicity tour, that Book 5 will be called Harry Potter 
and the Order of the Phoenix, therefore we endlessly speculate on 
what the Order of the Phoenix might be.

Cindy Sphynx wrote:

> So maybe he killed the Gray Lady, the heiress to Ravenclaw. He 
> killed his own father, the heir to Slytherin, 

Tom Riddle, Jr, said he was descended from Slytherin through his 
witch mother, not his Muggle father. 

> and perhaps the Bloody Baron.

and Tom Riddle, Sr, died from Avada Kevadra with not a mark on him, 
so why would he be bloody as a ghost?

> He killed the Fat Friar, the heir to Hufflepuff. Voldemort seems 
> to be having trouble closing the loop and killing the heirs of 
> Gryffindor. 

And Nick doesn't say anything about being the House ghost with the 
most seniority by 4 and a half centuries worth?