dumbledore, chocolate frogs and portrait hopping (book five info included)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 87293

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arealin" <alina at d...> wrote:
> Hope I'm not repeating anyone's earlier email, I did do a search to 
> make sure I'm not.
> 
> I recently bought the Unofficial Guide To the HP Mysteries. Don't 
> ask me why, I guess I'm either that crazy or that obsessed. It did 
> make me think of a couple of things, here's one of them.
> 
> In book five we find out that portrayed people are able to hop 
> between their portraits. 
> 
> 1. Can people move between their photographs as well?
> 2. Does it only work for portraits of dead people or can portraits 
> of people who are alive do it as well?
> 3. If answer to 2 is yes, does that mean someone like Dumbledore can 
> enter almost any wizarding family's house through his Chocolate Frog 
> Card? 
> 
> If all that was possible, that's an even more convenient means of 
> communication than owl post or floo fireplaces, isn't it? You just 
> hand out chocolate frog cards of a certain person to everyone you 
> need to contact quickly and voila!


Carol:
IIRC, Percy walks out of the family photograph in OoP. Earlier, I
think in PoA, his girlfriend Penelope hides outside her frame after
Ron spills something on her photograph and blotches her nose. So
presumably they could move to another photograph if they chose. Don't
know where else they could go.

Re living people moving out of portraits and chocolate frog
cards--that wouldn't be the same as the actual Dumbledore being
present--more like a clone who behaves as Dumbledore would but isn't
the real Dumbledore.

Which makes me think of a fitting reward for Harry at the end of Book
7--his own chocolate frog card!

Carol, who wishes she had a chocolate frog card for Snape