[HPforGrownups] Re: Empty picture

[SiriusBlack4Eternity]

No: HPFGUIDX 95175



SB4E: 
> I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that DD routinely 
had discussions with the portraits in his office, which if you're 
theory is correct on them being sentients of their former selves 
would serve no purpose for Dumbledore, especially with ones like 
Phineas, because they would be so removed from the current issues of 
the WW that it wouldn't do any good to try and discuss current 
happenings.  Just a thought, because I am still not convinced exactly 
how they work.  

Geoff:
>I don't think that my suggestion excludes these portraits to be able 
to discuss current matters once the information has been relayed to 
them by Dumbledore or someone else.

What they /can't/ do is discuss them as if they themselves had 
continued living into the situation. A poor analogy would be to say 
that I can talk about the current situation in the UK as myself but 
not as Tony Blair or Michael Howard; I can look as it as an observer 
and commentator but not as a participant in that sense. Does that 
seem a bit clearer?<




 

Then what would the point of having a discussion with them if they are only able to discuss it based solely on the information they have been given?  DD might as well have the discussion with himself, he would get more out of it.  I think there is more to these portraits than we know or see.  Regardless if they can talk to you in a way that a living person could talk to you, it is not the same as having the living person there.  I don't see the portrait thing for Sirius, but even if there were one and it could interact like Sirius, this would be a poor substitute for a living, breathing Sirius to Harry.  When you lose someone that is important to you, there is no way that a portrait, however lively, could ever take their place.  In a way, with our muggle technology, we are on the verge, if we don't have it, of being able to make our own type of portrait using computers...and even if it were a digital portrait that could interact like the person would, it wouldn't be the same.  Any
 way, that's my two knuts....

SiriusBlack4Eternity



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