Portraits and photographs ( was Re: theories....)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 143732

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "womyn_power_2004" 
<womyn_power_2004 at y...> wrote:

womyn_power:
> In OotP we see how dead headmasters and mistresses can still 
> communicate to the living from their photographs and how they can 
> visit their own photograph. Phineas Nigellus visits his other 
> picture in the Black family mansion, and when Arthur Weasley is 
> injured we have a witch from the Mungos who informs Dumbledore what 
> is happening there. 
> In SS Dumbledore is the first picture Harry sees on Hogwarts 
> express when he unwraps his first ever-chocolate frog. Later in 
> OotP, while updating Harry on the events while he spends an unhappy 
> month at the Dursely's he is informed of how Dumbledore has been 
> stripped of all his posts and Fred jokes that Dumbledore is happy 
> as long as they don't take his picture away from the chocolate  
> frog cards. Could Dumbledore guide Harry from his picture 
> (chocolate frog card)? And help Harry find the other horcruxes and  
> destroy them and finally Voldemort himself?

Geoff:
I think that, in the past, contributors to the group have drawn a 
distinction between portraits and photographs.

It is through the portraits that messages have been sent and 
information obtained whereas photographs, such as in those in "The 
Daily Prophet" and on the Frog Cards, seem to be similar to video 
recordings in the real world - they just replay and are not 
interactive.