Evil Fat Lady!! (well, not really) and spying art

[Nellie]

No: HPFGUIDX 59140

Hullo!

I was reading through old posts about the arts in Hogwarts, and it got 
me thinking some really goofy thoughts! :-)  Tyler wrote (in message # 
57198)

>The wizarding world seems pretty creative to me. It
>may be that creativity is a given among wizards and as
>such doesn't warrent actual instruction (unlike us
>muggles who like to dismiss creativity as useless and
>horror of horors, 'feminine'). There has to be
>creative wizards around-who made those paintings?

So who _did_ make those paintings?!  Do you think that paintings have 
some of the characteristics of the painter?  What if some one *evil* 
painted portraits?  Riddle could have made paintings!  Seems like the 
kind of thing that he would be into.  It's sort of like immortality, 
creating people, and putting a bit of yourself in them (like the 
diary)(Maybe that's why they don't have art classes at Hogwarts!!  Art 
can be dangerous!)  Also, paintings could spy for him.  As Snuffles 
wrote in message 57276:

>even when speaking under the invisibility cloak,
>couldn't the art hear the Trio, or 
>anyone else for that matter? And, if
>so, does the art travel to the art in 
>Dumbledore's office to fill him in on
>the goings-on inside the castle?

What if Voldemort's faithful servant was not a person, but a painting? 
 It would be perfect.  They can go anywhere in the castle where 
there's another picture, and hear and see everything that's going on.  
Who chose the Fat Lady as Gryffindor's guardian anyway?  And why 
doesn't the Slytherin common room have a portrait, just a wall?  
Perhaps Salazar was a painter, and wanted the students in his house to 
be able to sneak out easily, while the Gryffindors would have to go 
through interrogation by a painting, which would then report back to 
him


I bet the Fat Lady is evil!  (There's been Molly-is-evil speculation, 
why not this?)  She was still the door keeper (is that the correct 
name?) of Gryffindor when MWPP were attending Hogwarts.  So when 
Sirius tried to get in the dormitory, why did he slash her?  He must 
have remembered her, and she most likely had some recollection of him. 
 So he had become unrecognizable from his years in Azkaban, but I'm 
sure that there was something that he could have said to make her 
remember him, along the lines of "Hey, remember that night, in '76?  
When that young hooligan by the name of Sirius woke you up at three in 
the morning, covered in hex marks and goo?  Let me in, please, I'm 
tired and cold and nearly dead and I just need a place to rest for a 
*few minutes* and its not like anyone's in there, they're all at the 
feast..."  I know he probably wasn't the sanest sounding person, but I 
think she didn't let him in because she was protecting Pettigrew!  
He probably transforms at night and goes out and chats with the Fat 
Lady, telling her the sad sad story of his life.  Or she was a 
Voldemort sympathizer from the beginning, and instrumental in 
getting Peter to betray Lilly and James...  She 
just claims that she didnt let him because he didn't have the 
password, and who would question it?

Actually, I bet the real bad guy isn't the Fat Lady, but her friend 
Violet who shows up in the fourth book.  Interesting that we were 
supposed to meet the first truly evil female in GoF.  Also worth 
noting that she's seen in her frame in the room adjacent to the great 
hall (perhaps the room with special magical powers that JKR would 
visit?) winking at Bill Weasley. (hmm
)

Heh, this was fun to think about, even if it is totally doofy and 
doesn't stand up under fire.  

Going back to hiding,
Nellie