[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Photographs

[Cornet83 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42360

Kristen wrote
<<<A more intersting question is the paintings...the paintings don;t merely 
smile and wave. They have personalities. The Fat Lady gets annoyed when she 
is bothered for no reason, she gets scared and embarrassed (PoA) and she has 
a friend, Violet (GoF0 who she gets drunk with off chocolate liquers at 
X-Mas. Sir Cadogan has a distinct personality as well. Why does a painting 
capture a complete interactive
personality where as a photo is emrely a reflection of the person at the 
moment it was taken. You can not talk to the photos as you can paintings. 
Any thoguhts?>>>

Which brought to mind another question for me.  How did these paintings get 
drunk off chocolate liquers?  Were these drinks painted into another painting 
and therefore they just went and picked them up? That of course leads to more 
questions.....

1) Since these paintings can drink somehow, does this mean they need to eat 
as well?

2) How do they procure their food?  Is it painted within the picture or can 
they exit their frames and eat "real" food and/or bring something non-painted 
into their picture?

3) If the food is painted into the picture itself, does it last forever, 
always reproducing more or does a painter have to come and add more food 
every now and then.  I would think either way would cause problems, someone 
can't constantly be repainting pictures and I think eating the same meal over 
and over again for eternity (because presumably paintings can die) would be 
very tiresome.

4) I know the paintings can move from one painting to another, there are many 
examples of this throughout the books, but do you think they can step 
completely outside the frame into the real world?

*sigh* So many questions and virtually no answers.  The sad thing is that 
this whole topic probably has nothing to do whatsoever with the plot lines 
for the next three bookds and yet several people are avidly discussing it.  
Oh well, have to have something to talk about while waiting for number five 
right?:)

Anyone have and answers/ideas for me?

mariahisabel