OOP: Painting Sirius

[bowlwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 62236

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "filo_roll" <filo_roll at y...> 
wrote:
> Question:  Why don't they just paint a picture of Sirius?  
> All those headmasters in Dumbledore's room are technically dead, 
but 
> is still physically alive in their paintings.  They can talk, run 
> around... They are still living through their portraits and hardly 
> dead at all!
> Bring Sirius back from the dead!
> filo_roll

I don't really know how canon the group is treating the extras from 
the DVD's and I'm not sure if this is too close to mentioning movie 
stuff on the main list, but I'm going to say it anyway.

In the extras on the DVD, you can view DD's office, complete with 
paintings.  It has a voice over that explains that in order to make a 
painting that moves around, you must first commission the painting 
and then put some bit of yourself in it (hair, fingernail, piece of 
skin, etc).  This can ONLY be done while the person is ALIVE, and it 
cannot be done posthumously.   Because it also takes time/money, a 
lot of people don't do it until they're older (hence, no portrait of 
Lily, James or Sirius). 

But, until we see something in an interview an/or books, I don't know 
if this will suffice as an explanation.  

bowlwoman