Dobby's Painting Might Be Sirius?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 112662

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "charme" <dontask2much at y...> 
wrote:
> Ok, so I had one of those flashes of brilliance sure to baffle 
everybody.
> In re-reading OoP, I was focused on the description of the 
painting Dobby
> gave Harry for Christmas.  What if that painting is not of Harry, 
but of
> Sirius? Is that possible or have I lost all remaining rational 
thought?


Jen: I'm very interested in that painting too. Just because it has 
Harry's name on the back doesn't mean the subject has to be Harry; 
that's just Fred & George's interpretation. I've also wondered why 
it's not a moving portrait, or seemingly magical in any way, like 
all the other paintings we've seen so far. It just *can't* be a 
Muggle painting if Dobby was the artist!

It seems like Dobby typically gives Harry useful things (when not 
trying to kill him, of course<g>) like the gillyweed, or directing 
him to the Room of Requirement. Can't you see Dobby utterly baffled 
to discover Harry has no idea the socks Dobby knitted or the 
painting actually have some unique magical powers? "Why Harry Potter 
sir, Dobby had no idea Harry Potter didn't know how to use the 
socks/painting Dobby has given to you!"

Jen, shielding herself from the groans for that bad interpretation 
of Dobby :).