[HPforGrownups] photos, oil paintings, ghosts, mortality, consciousness, etc.

[Kurt Douglass]

No: HPFGUIDX 71678




>Does anyone care to flesh out these various levels consciousness?
>
>Harry's parents smile and wave to him from the photo album Hagrid gave him
>at the end of book one---Harry's family seems to communicate from the 
>Mirror
>of Erised---mom and dad provide direction in the cemetery where they are
>"pictures"? of themselves:
>Do these instances depict different levels of consciousness that the reader 
>is
>supposed to be able to flesh out?
>
>With all the pictures of Gilderoy in his engaged in various sorts of 
>self-care
>rituals---does each picture have its own individual consciousness?
>If thirteen people are holding a chocolate frog card of Albus Dumbledore, 
>will
>they all be seeing the same thing?
>What about any other photograph...how constrained would the photographic
>subject be by a)what s/he was doing at the time of the picture v. b) the 
>activity
>in which s/he's currently engaged? What if Albus wants to go pee? Does he
>have to do something to "turn off the reception"?
>
>How do the past headmasters live on in their oil paintings? how many
>paintings can they be conscious in simultaneously? How vulnerable are they
>to attack?
>What about the oil paintings at Hogwarts? Are these subjects more or less
>alive than ghosts?
>Could Sirius have killed the Fat Lady by slicing her to ribbons if she 
>hadn't
>fleed the picture?
>
>"madeyemood"
>
>From Michael:

I've wondered about this myself. I think Rowling may be playing on the old 
superstition that a picture could capture a person's soul (or part of it). 
My theory is that the picture or photo captures not only the person's image, 
but their personality as well. You also have to remember that it's magic, so 
it won't all make sense.
>
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