7 Horcruxes - Shock & outrage!!

[ornadv]

No: HPFGUIDX 144899

>Steve
>As to the portraits, don't forget that Dumbledore's portrait is also
>there now, and once he wakes up, he is not only capable of talking 
>to McGonagall but also capable of talking to and interacting with 
>the other portraits. Dumbledore's portrait can tell McGonagall 
>whatever he thinks she needs to know, and can further tell the 
>other portraits NOT to tell McGonagall any secrets he does not want 
>her to know.

Orna:
I agree. We see that Phineas Nigellus is quite outspoken towards DD 
and sometimes quite independent in ways he acts. So I think that the 
portraits serve the headmaster – like teachers served him, which 
demands always a way of agreeing – and not like puppets serve. I 
also think they might be hindered from passing information from one 
headmaster's regime to another – the headmaster is there on the 
wall, and it's his authority to speak with the current headmaster on 
what he chooses to speak. It wouldn't do to use the portraits as 
tell-tailing on headmasters sitting beside them on the wall.  
Otherwise it would be dishonoring IMO to the headmasters.

Orna