Do portraits talk

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 139358

Highlanderx54:
> I may be wrong but when Sirius died the Black portrait in 
> Dumbledores office could not believe that the last Black was dead and 
> went through all the portraits to look for him. Also in the beginning 
> of the HBP the portrait told the minister that the MOM was coming. 
> Because of those two instances I thought maybe they could talk. 


Ceridwen:
And, Phineas Nigellus also was offended that Mundungus was stealing 
Black family heirlooms.  IIRC, he has also been known to snort at 
things or make some other incredulous noise, and make sarcastic 
comments, too.  If this is PNB in pale memory, he must have been quite 
a character in life!

Ceridwen.