pictures of the founders

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 95187

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Caius Marcius" 
> <coriolan_cmc at h...> wrote:
> > Who is the oldest person depicted in a portrait - is there anyone 
> > prior to Dilys Derwent of the early 18th Century (OOP, Chap. 22)?
> > 
> Carolyn:
> If you count Chocolate Frog cards as portraits, there's Agrippa, 
> Circe, Cliodna, Merlin, Morgana and Ptolemy mentioned in the books 
> for a start. On the slightly-less canon commercially available Frog 
> cards (supposedly endorsed by JKR), there is Paracelsus, Andros the 
> Invincible, Herpo the Foul plus numerous medieval figures.

Those are trading cards, not formal portraits (e.g., we're talking 
Goya & Gainsborough vs. the picture of A-Rod you get in a pack of 
bubble gum). Although the chocolate Frog cards display some animation 
& movement, there is no evidence that they are capable of the 
intelligible discourse (or in Mother Black's case, malevolent 
diatribe) that the formal portraits routinely engage in.


    - CMC