Moving Pictures

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 15099

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "- Joy -" <joy0823 at e...> wrote:
> I was listening to the audio version of CoS last night (my new 
regimen is a
> chapter every night before bed... it's delightful), and a question 
occurred
> to me.  How do the moving photographs know which way to move?  What 
do you
> guys think?  I mean, obviously it's magic, so there's no real 
explanation,
> but... Does the subject have to be moving at the time the picture 
is taken?
> Or does the film somehow know how each person would normally move, 
and
> duplicates past movements?  Does every picture repeat the same 
motion over
> and over, or do they have a whole repertoire?  It's amazing to me 
that all
> of these wizard photographs have movements in them that fit both the
> individual and the circumstances under which the picture was taken.
> 

I think to some extent it's a play on the idea that a photograph can 
steal someone's soul.  The person's image retains some trace of their 
personality, and therefore behaves like the person would behave.  
That's why Harry's photographic self in CoS (in the pic Colin took 
with Harry and Lockhart) was trying to hide outside of the boundaries 
of the picture - because Harry didn't/wouldn't want to be there.  
The thing I keep wondering about is where Lockhart's photographic 
selves got the hair rollers!

kimberly