[HPforGrownups] Colin's camera, Myrtle's glasses

[wynnde1 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 46915

In a message dated 21/11/2002 16:48:30 GMT Standard Time, 
jazmyn at pacificpuma.com writes:


> Why do people assume that Colin's camera was a muggle one?  He might
> have gotten it in Diagon Alley and opening the back of it might be the
> normal way to retrieve the pictures as it might not even use 'film' in
> the same way as a muggle camera and might have had something that
> converted into those moving photos...
> 
> Jazmyn
> 

Well, the canon doesn't say with complete certainty, but here it is, from 
Chapter 6 of CoS

(Harry describes Colin) . . ."He was clutching what looked like an ordinary 
Muggle camera . . . "

A few paragraphs later, Colin says, "a boy in my dormitory said if I develop 
the film in the right potion, the pictures will *move*."  We also learn that 
Colin's dad is a milkman, so he's at least half and half (maybe we know he's 
completely muggle-born from elsewhere in the book. I don't remember off the 
top of my head).

So, I'd say it's a fair guess that it is a regular Muggle camera. 

:-)
Wendy


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