[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius's Motorcycle

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 101831

> moonmyyst:
>
> And another question.... If the pictures in Hogwarts
> and GP can talk, why can't HP's pictures of his
> parents?  Do they have to be a certain size before
> they can?
>
>
> >> I guess that's because Harry's pictures are
> photographs. Pictures that speak are paintings.
>
> =====
>
> ~Rebeka

I think the only pictures that can talk are the ones of dead people (or of
fictional characters that were never alive in the first place). At least
it's my impression that all the talking paintings and pictures we
encountered were of people who are deceased and that we haven't as of yet
seen a portrait of a person who's still alive, only photos. I have a feeling
that wizarding portraits function similarily to ghosts.

Alina.