[HPforGrownups] Colin's camera, Myrtle's glasses / half-creatures like Hagrid (was: Serpents and Perseltongue)

[Klei]

No: HPFGUIDX 46982

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...

Colin says in the book (CoS) that it's a normal camera and that the film 
is developed with aspecial solution.

Grey Wolf wrote:

> Grouping half-creatures with their non-human parents *is*, however, an
> error. From the examples so far, it seems that half-giants have no
> problem controlling their natures and thus they should be offered a
> place in the beings, since they have shown the capacity to understand
> and follow laws.

I don't think so. Does Hagrid follow the law?

Andrea Lee wrote to me:

>you wrote:
>>I think they don't have a language, they just sound
>  
>
>odd above water.
>
>Ah, but if you would READ GoF, there are several
>references to the language mermish.
>
I read GoF. It's just that it's 660 pages and I read it about 3 months ago.
I cannot remember everything correctly. So I made a mistake. Didn't you 
ever say something that was anti-canon in this list?
And I *have* read the FAQ and hbfile, thank you.


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