Portraits can carry on conversations and stuff and that’s cool. But it throws me that some portraits are of actual people. What are the rules of the portraits?
1) How do portraits come to possess personalities and consciences of their own? How do portraits come to be different from every day paintings? (I know pics in the Daily Prophet or Quibbler can move around but that’s very different of course)
2) If someone dies and a portrait of them is made, does the portrait entity live on with all of the memories of its living self? Is it practically the same person or just a cheap imitation?
3) How does all this work if a moving portrait is made of a still living person?
I think of the moving portraits to be sort of like Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs in the Marauder’s Map…it just reacts like they would.
March 5th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
I think of the moving portraits to be sort of like Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs in the Marauder’s Map…it just reacts like they would.
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March 5th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
think of a portrait in HP like a memory. it will have the person’s same personalities and traits and will not grow or age beyond what is put to the canvas. you can bet that it differs from the photographs due to some magical paint and brush techniques (man, JK Rowling would love these questions I bet).
they can travel from one paitning to another of themselvesto keep themselves amused and entertained, but can not move outside of the frame without going into another portrait.
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March 5th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
kinda, but not really. i think its like the marauders map thing 2.
‘Wizards have ways of making their voices heard after their death……………..its as if he left a magical recording of his voice within the map.’
if u go to jkrowling.com and look at hte question about prongs insulting snape on the marauders map, ull get ur answer.
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jkrowling.com