Wizard Photographs

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 42353

--- snazzzybird <carmenharms at yahoo.com> wrote:
> However, canon gives us an incident which confuses this issue.  I'm 
> sorry I can't remember which book it's in -- but Percy has a 
> photograph of Penelope Clearwater, and she's ducking out of the photo 
> because she has a pimple.  Did she have this pimple when the photo 
> was taken?  Unlikely, because she wouldn't have given such a photo to 
> Percy.  (Or if he was the photographer, she would have begged him not 
> to take a picture of her until the pimple cleared up, and he surely 
> would have complied.)  So how did the "Penelope" in the photo get the 
> pimple?  If she got it because the real-life Penelope got one, then 
> why doesn't the wedding photo of Sirius Black show a thin man with 
> long, scraggly hair?

Easy enough -- it wasn't a pimple. :)  The twins spilled tea on the photo
and she was hiding because of the tea stain, not a pimple.

My opinion is that the photograph is literally a snapshot of that person
at that moment in time -- whatever he or she is feeling in addition to how
he/she looks.  So Lockhart's pictures are always vain because that's
literally the only thought in his head. ;)  Harry was struggling to get
away because that's what he was doing when the picture was taken --
physically and mentally.  Penelope was taking a picture for her boyfriend,
so she probably wanted to look pretty, which the tea stain ruined.


Andrea

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"Reality is for people who lack imagination."

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