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

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 46920


On 11/21/2002 at 6:53 AM jazmyn wrote:

>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
>
>
Good question.

It never occurred to me that it was a muggle camera -- but that aside, opening the back *is* a normal way to get film out  of a camera if it's not an automatic. 

I'm pretty sure it does use film the same way as a muggle camera. It's the magic film and the magic camera that make the photos move, though.  

Unless you use a muggle camera with muggle film and the potions you use to *develop* the film make the moving photos, but to me that makes less sense, because a magic camera with magic film would record several images in order for the images on the photograph to be moving. Then again, I could just be thinking too much.

Dumbledore doesn't hang around in his own Chocolate Frog trading card photograph,  and in the books, people from the Hogwarts Paintings go to visit one another -- so anything is possible and there doesn't necessarily have to be a rational explanation for it.

Hee.

Indigo