Portraits

[Christina in GA]

No: HPFGUIDX 102044

>Jacqui: In order for the portrait to be "charmed" with an >animation spell,
does the person the picture is of need to be >alive?  If not, could Harry
have a picture of his parents painted >and still have the same effect? I am
leaning towards the first.

Christina: You mean alive at the time the portrait is painted? I would agree
with that. But we know that the portrait stays "alive" even after the real
person is gone, like Mrs. Black's portrait and Phineas Nigellus in DD's
office (who I felt really sorry for when he found out about Sirius' death).
I wonder how the portraits take on their subject's personality, though.

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