[HPforGrownups] Re: Muggle things in Hogwarts

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 9115

Scott wrote:

> --I think that you must be right, despite Hermione's comments.  What
> I mean is that Colin certainly implies he's using a muggle camera,
> and that it is only the potion that the pictures are developed in
> that makes them move.  I had just assumed that the camera had a
> magical element but then perhaps not. Any explanations?

Explanation 1:

Well, in an older, non-Instamatic type camera, the kind where you change
the lenses yourself and carry around huge camera cases with lots of
different lenses and filters and stuff and have genuine lens caps that
you can forget to remove (instead of the modern ones that disappear like
Star Trek doors)  the only non-mechanical part is the teeny little
battery for the light meter. I don't think batteries would necessarily be
affected. So it should work just fine.

AND, people who are into photography and develop their own film, which
Colin does, tend to be purists about equipment and use the "real" cameras
rather than the little idiot boxes. So I bet he has an old Nikon or
something, like I do, rather than a Fuji technology fest, which
presumably would screw up.

Explanation 2:

It's a Flint.

--Amanda