[HPforGrownups] Moving Pictures

[Rena]

No: HPFGUIDX 15126

Joy 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.

When Collin Creevy takes his pictures of Harry, he mentions that when
the film is developed a certain way, the pictures start moving.
So, I'd say, "it's magic"

Rena



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