Portraits?

[floridian127 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19882

CoS referred to the old headmasters on the wall as portraits. 
I use portrait to mean professional photograph not painting. I take 
my own pictures. Pictures do not talk or visit others, they just 
smile and wave. But didn't someone mention the Headmasters visiting 
Sir Calahan? I expect paintings to be one-of-a-kinds, otherwise you 
would have multiple fat ladies wandering around. What are considered 
Portraits in the UK?  

Floridian, needing magic to fight the fires. 
Sorry if this rambles, I just ate a pepper flavored bean. yuk 



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Kelley" <SKTHOMPSON_1 at m...> wrote:
aside from the subjects in the paintings moving from one picture to 
the next and visiting each other, they can have 'intelligent' and 
interacitve conversations with humans.  I don't remember any 
instances of photos speaking, but there was that bit in CoS when they 
enter Lockhart's office to examine Mrs Norris.  Lockhart is babbling 
away while Dumbledore examines her and all the while his photos are 
nodding in agreement with all he says.  From this, I suppose that 
means that they can at least follow humans' conversations, but they 
didn't actually speak.  Do the photos (are they photos or paintings?) 
of the former headmasters in Dumbledore's office ever speak?  I'm 
thinking no.  Apparently if photos could speak, J&L would have been 
chatting with Harry when he looks at his album.  Someone wondered if 
perhaps there might be paintings of J&L, and I think this is a 
wonderful idea.  As much as I would love to see this, I don't think 
it seems very likely that JKR will do this.  (I've often thought that 
maybe their ghosts reside in Godric's Hollow.)  From what I recall 
from interviews and so on, she seems very firm in her stance that 
they (J&L) will not be back...
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> Kelley