Wizard Photography

[Tyler Hewitt]

No: HPFGUIDX 58777

A few weeks ago (May 7 to be exact, message #57198) I
posted the following:
"...I was wondering the other day about wizard
photography. What would the image look like if you
photographed an inanimate object, like an empty chair?
Would the chair in the photo move? Maybe you would see
the person who last sat in it. 
Where does the ability to show motion lie-in the
photograph iself or in the subject of the photo?"

I'm currently re-reading the HP books in preparation
for the 21st, and found the following in CoS. Colin
Creevey is speaking to Harry after meeting him for the
first time and asking to take his photo. It's in the
American hardcover edition, pg. 96:
"...and a boy in my dormitory said if I develop the
film in the right potion the pictures'll move."

This seems to me to come close to an answer. It's the
development process that causes motion. Wizard
photography is dependant on magical potions to achieve
motion. Still doesn't tell me what a wizard photo of
an empty chair would look like, however.

Tyler



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