[HPforGrownups] Empty picture

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 95042

In a message dated 4/3/2004 5:26:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, don_john at web.de 
writes:
Re-reading TOOTP last night I stumbled across something I'd completely
overlooked when I first read it. In the room that Ron and Harry are sharing
at Grimmauld Place there is an empty picture that's always sniggering
(Bloomsbury, p. 62, p. 151). Once the occupant even talks to Harry, telling
him that it's the "first sign of madness, talking to your own head" in a sly
voice (p. 162). 

So, we've been wondering if and in what form Sirius will show up again. What
if the invisible occupant is teenage Sirius? Lurking just out of sight? 
JKR wouldn't bother to mention the empty picture at least 4 times (once the
occupant is seemingly asleep, p.92) if it wasn't important, would she? 
Any thoughts?
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Sherrie here:

Actually, we already know who the *usually* invisible denizen of that 
portrait is - it's Phineas Nigellus.  He appears in it at least once that we see 
(delivering Dumbledore's message to Harry to stay put), and utilizes it at least 
one other time that we know of - to go check on Sirius.

Sherrie
"Unless history lives in our present, it has no future." 
PRESERVE OUR CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS!


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