[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Photographs.. more thoughts on this =)

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 42391

> Wait a second?! I thought that cameras, bugging devices, and all
> those electric things wouldn't work on the Hogwarts' Campus, as
> mentioned in the GoF by Hermione when she explains bugging to Harry
> and Ron.
>
> Plot hole? a Flint? Or does Creepy Colin Creevy use one that doesn't
> run on that sort of thing and is disposable? Or perhaps is the camera
> a Polariod?

You sound so young. Some things actually work without electrical power. I
myself have in my possession oooooold things like Brownies, which were in
the first generations of personal cameras (i.e., for the non-professional
user). I have a Nikon, the kind where you change the lenses yourself, set
the aperture manually, etc. They don't use batteries (except there *is* one
in the Nikon's light meter).

It sounds to me like the type of camera Colin's using is one that is
strictly mechanical, with no batteries to screw up. For one, he sounds like
a true hobbyist photographer, for it is implied that he develops his own
film--the emphasis in his comment on magical developer is not that he must
develop them, but that this alternate way of developing produces moving
results. I'd think there'd be more emphasis on him having to develop them
himself, if this were something he'd never done. Secondly, as a parent, I'm
not about to send a camera worth any kind of money off to school with an
eleven-year-old. I'd buy him a secondhand one somewhere. An old one. Which
would probably end up being simply mechanical.

--Amanda, feeling old

P.S.--Polaroids indeed have motors and must run on batteries or some type of
electrical power--how do you think they spit those pictures out? A Polaroid
wouldn't work at Hogwarts.