portrait in GH (was Re: Remus & Sirius - How Dumbledore Knew.)

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No: HPFGUIDX 97440

> <quigonginger at y...> wrote:
> > > >(snip of both Rosebeth and Steve's posts speculating that a 
> > portrait in GH may have informed DD.)
> 
> 
> > Laura Walsh added: 
> > > Given that it is GODRICK's Hollow and that Harry is a 
Gryffindor,
> > > why couldn't the portrait have been of Godrick Gryffindor?
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the short post.   I gather some people dislike them.
> 
>  
> > Ginger adds:  
> > Good point on GG's portrait, but it could also have been Bowman 
> > Wright, inventor of the snitch, who also hailed from GH QttA p. 
14,
> >  US).  He would have been an important historical figure, or at 
> > least had an admirer who commissioned a portrait.
> > 
> > Ginger,
> 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> I'm not saying it absolutely would not be a portrait of someone
> specifically from Hogwart's history, only that the field of likely
> candidate is far bigger and more likely if they are taken from 
general
> wizard history.
><snip>

Neri:
I had assumed that ONLY Hogwarts headmasters and headmistresses can 
move between their different portraits in different houses (maybe 
because they were powerful wizards in life) but now I see that DD's 
words may be interpreted also as if any wizard with more than one 
portrait can move between his portraits. I don't think this is true, 
because in such a case everybody in the WW would have known about it, 
and we would have heard about this before. It seems more reasonable 
to me that only past Hogwarts headmasters can do it and this why only 
the current headmaster knows about it. The portraits are honor bound 
to serve him as spies, and they wouldn't be of much use as spies had 
anybody known not to trust their portraits. In any case, the whole 
point of having a portrait in GH is that he can report to DD, and 
since we know only about portraits of past headmasters hanged in DD's 
office, it is likely the portrait in GH (if there indeed was one) was 
of one of them.

Neri