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

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 59211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Juliet" <lilpurplealdy at n...> 
wrote:
> Nellie:
> > (I wonder if she knows about Dumbledore and HRH's 
> > role in setting Black free
 there must be paintings in the
> > hospital wing or Professor Flitwick's office who would have told 
> > her) 
> 
> As far as I can remember, there's no mention of paintings in the 
> Hospital Wing(*waits for someone to pop up with canon and prove her 
> wrong*), and we've visited that place a fair number of times.

Not really cannon, but the movie does depict two paintings of 
hospital scenes in the hospital wing.   But I'm pretty sure it's 
never been mentioned one way or the other in cannon.

> 
> As fun as this theory goes, one thing should be different in order 
to 
> support it more:  Dumbledore's office.  Dumbledore's office is 
lined 
> with paintings, is it not?  If Dumbledore had no paintings in his 
> office, then you could argue that he knows the art is dangerous and 
> thus doesn't have any in his office for private reasons.  
But...this 
> is not the case. 

Maybe because the paintings in Dumbledore's office depict former 
headmasters, they all understand the sacntity of his office and that 
what is said in the headmasters office stays in the headmasters 
office.

 
> 
> There are paintings all over the castle...it would seem like too 
Huge 
> of a Mistake if they turned out to be able to be used for evil.
> 

I don't think the paintings are "puposely" evil but that they are 
gossipy.   Hence, at the end of PS/SS when Dumbldore comments that 
what happened to Harry is a great secret, hence the entire school 
knows.  I have the feeling that much of the "rumour spreading" in 
Hogwarts orginates with the paintings, since they have privy to most 
everything that goes on there.

On the other hand, the argument can be made that since the paintings 
have been hanging there so long, many may be totally disinterested in 
what's going on around them.

Serena