CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 12: The Pat

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> Pippin:
> I find it a comforting thought as well.  But I don't think Nick and Myrtle would.  I can imagine Nick saying frostily that he's heard of this theory and finds it rather tactless, to say the least. Ghostly feelings seem real enough to ghosts, and whose to say they don't feel them as their flesh and blood selves did? I doubt that Myrtle would feel better to know that her "real" self is enjoying a happier afterlife than she is. 
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Potioncat:
Good point. That reminds me of a scifi story in which people are able to send a copy of themselves into dangerous situations. They go into a booth for a moment and step out. Only at the same time the copy steps out and is shocked to find himself on Mars or wherever. The copy believes himself to be the original version.

What do you think the portraits think of themselves? To me they are interactive portraits of headmasters, but do they think they are real?  Honestly, Nick and Myrtle and the other ghosts seem very real to me--not just imprints at all.

Was Snape wrong?