[HPforGrownups] Muggle devices at Hogwarts (WAS: Re: Wizard Photographs.. more thoughts on this =))

[Grace Saalsaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 42523



Kristin asks:
Another thing I'd like to know is gow come a muggle
camera works within the Hogwarts grounds...because in
GoF, as Hermione (and ANYONE who reaad Hogwarts, a
Histroy...jeez!) keep telling Harry and Ron,
electronic devices and such do not operate within
Hogwarts grounds, like how no one can apparate. When
they are trying to figure out how Rita Skeeter is
getting her information, Harry and Ron keep suggesting
bugging to which Hermione exasperatedly tells them
that those electronic devices would be scrambled at
Hogwarts. Same as walkie talkies, when they think they
see Malfoy usig one on the grounds...so what's the
exception with a camera? A mistake?
Hmmmmmm :)
~Kristin


now me:

I asked my hubby, the photographer, about a camera working at Hogwarts, and
he said:
Cameras do not have to be electronic.  Even the flash doesn't have to be
electronic.  Collin could have used a flash bulb instead of an electronic
flash.  Some camera models, like the Leica have no battery in them at all.
And a pinhole camera is nothing more than a light tight box with a tiny hole
in it containing a sheet of photographic paper.

Grace