Dumbledore -- portrait

[nickel313]

No: HPFGUIDX 134078

> > --- Merrylinks wrote:
> > On the basis of the new Dumbledore portrait in the 
> > headmistress's office and because of Fawkes's behavior, I'm 
> > sure that Dumbledore is really dead. 
> 
Then Matt wrote:
> Not disputing that Dumbledore's dead, but does a former headmaster
> have to be dead to turn up on a portrait in the office?  I had 
thought
> they were portraits of all the former headmasters (dead or alive).
> 
> -- Matt

Now me (Nickel):
"And a new portrait had joined the ranks of the dead headmasters and 
headmistresses of Hogwarts ... " (HBP, p584 Australian / UK edition)

So, I guess that means that 'yes' the headmaster/headmistress must 
be dead before their portrait is displayed.

-- Nickel, who is making her first ever post here after a long time 
lurking and hopes she has done it properly