PICTURES AT HOGWARTS

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 176667

 "jennifer" <fuzz876i at ...> wrote:

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 Why couldn't
> Dumbledore visit Phinellias Black's portrait in Deathly Hallows?  He
> said that they could commune with each other but that he could not
> bring Dumbledore into his portrait.  This is very confusing because if
> other paintings could visit each other then why couldn't the
> headmasters not visit each other's pictures?


Potioncat:
My understanding is that Portrait!DD could visit any of his own 
portraits where ever they were; he could visit any portrait at 
Hogwarts; but he couldn't travel via someone else's portrait out of 
Hogwarts.