[HPforGrownups] Why do the pictures of James & Lily NOT speak?

[Bee Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 121305



dooddeb <muse82 at hotmail.com> wrote:

I was re-reading our Harry Potter books, (I share custody of them 
with my 12-year old), and realized the pictures in Dumbledore's 
office and Sirius' house not only move, but carry on conversations 
with the living.  Has it ever been explained why pictures of these 
dead people speak and the pictures Harry has of his parents do not?
Thanks!

-doobdeb

Luckdragon:

I don't recall any explanations in canon, but I believe the painted portraits speak, but photographs are only able to move. Perhaps it has to do with the spell placed on them when they are created.







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