[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Photographs

[R. MacDonald]

No: HPFGUIDX 42347

Fyre Wood wrote:

  Wow, you definately go into great detail about this sort of thing..
  something I have never thought about.

  I think the photos take on a few traits of the people they are taken
  of. Just look at the way Photo!Harry reacts in the photo that Colin
  took of him with Lockhart. Gilderoy is just trying to make Harry
  come
  into the picture, but Harry doesn't want to.... remind you of real
  life Harry Potter doesn't it?

  My guess is that the photos are merely echos of the people they
  represent. I doubt they are "real" or would feel any pain if they
  were cut.

  Though.. voodu photos would be an interesting idea >=)


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  Any thoughts?
  --Fyre Wood



  Howdy Folks, I'm kinda new to this group, But I come baring opinions on
this matter.  I've always had the assumption in my mind that a photograph
was a photocopy of the subject, in that moment in time, in that what ever
the person was thinking or feeling was taken into the picture with them  and
stayed there as long as the picture was in existence.  When Colin took the
Lockhart/Potter picture, Harry wanted to be as far from the situation as
possible, and Lockhart wanted to ham up the situation, or in the case of
Dumbledore's wizard card, (c. book 1) when Harry read the card the second
time, Dumbledore was gone, he might have had some thoughts in his head at
the time the Picture was taken like, "gotta get ready for the next Term at
Hogsworts, " or " we have to hurry and save Lily and James."   So off the
Picture goes to do whatever.

  This theory also carries to painted pictures as well, and explains why
they can be more interactive.  A photo takes as long as the exposure is set
up for to come to be, but it could take Hours, days, maybe weeks, to paint a
picture.  The longer the copy takes to reproduce, the more of a mental copy
goes with it.

  R. MacDonald
  ICQ #15170395
  Caliway26 at ns.sympatico.ca