Chocolate Frogs & Portraits

[Ronin_47]

No: HPFGUIDX 164941

--zgirnius wrote-

<SNIP>
>>>This is first introduced in PS/SS when Harry gets a Chocolate Frog 
>Card of Dumbledore, which shortly thereafter becomes blank. "You 
>didn't think he sticks around all the time, did you?" (or words to 
>that effect) are what Ron says to Harry.<<<

 

This really got me to thinking about the process that is used to create
portrait vs a photo or chocolate frog. When we are first introduced to the
chocolate frog cards, Dumbledore is very much, living at the time. Also,
various photos have appeared of other living wizards and witches. For
example, Sirius Black's photo appeared on the front of the Daily Prophet. He
was animated and able to growl. Yet he was alive and this wasn't even his
actual personality, but what the media had created as the ideal image of a
crazed, escaped DE.

Portraits have the ability to speak and move about from frame to frame, but
they must be created in a similar way. I'm wondering if, based on what we
know of the other formats, the portrait may be only a creation of the
artist's mind, through magic. An expression of the artist or photographer's
impression of the character in the portrait. Portraits seem to be more than
this, but things aren't always what they seem.

It can not be an actual part of the subject's soul which animates the
portrait. That would make the portrait a horcrux and would require dark
magic.

Anyway, these are just my various ramblings and I welcome anyone's opinions.

 

Cheers,

Ronin

 



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