Hi, I just wondered why harry & Co don't question Dumbledore via a portrait?? I dont think this was really covered in the books unless Im issed something.
If I understood the book right, to talk to Dumbledore via a portrait they would have to be somewhere that has a portrait of him.
So the only portrait they knew of him was the one in Hogwarts, and they couldnt just waltz right into hogwarts really could they?
In the book, they talked to Phineas Nigellus Black, a previous hogwarts headmaster, because he had a portait in Grimmauld Place, and he told them that Dumbledore couldnt come into his portrait in Grimmauld place because Dumbledore didnt have one there.
(If that doesnt make sense to anyone, sorry, i tend to babble a bit.)
i think one person of a portrait can go from portrait to portrait in just one building, if there's a portrait of such person is in the building
if u wanna communicate with the portrait outside the building then u need another portrait
dumbledore told harry all that he knew (or so thought harry) so harry didnt have any questions until his bday when they recieved the things from dumbledore, and then it was too late to question dumble's portrait _________________
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Hi, I just wondered why harry & Co don't question Dumbledore via a portrait?? I dont think this was really covered in the books unless Im issed something.
i agree wit every1 no way could they waltz up to hogwarts.plus like a link said snape got orders from dubledore. im just throwin this thought out here that dubledore gave him knowledge prior to his death _________________ Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon
ALso, JKR had this to say about it when someone asked her about it...
Q: Why couldn't Harry speak to a portrait of Dumbledore throughout the last book>
Well there are two reasons, three reasons actually... Teh last bit, why did he have to decode? As Dumbledore says to Harry...to tell Harry about the Hallows was to tempt him. And Harry, throughout all seven books has been incredibly impetuous and reckless. That's one of Harry's biggest flaws. He does tend to act without thinking, and Dumbledore knows this about Harry. He wants him to work it out slowly enough to gain wisdom along the way. That's why he passed the information through Hermione, who is the most cautious person in the books, as you know. And Dumbledore says explicitly, so your good heat isn't overcome by your hot heads. Or I may have paraphrased myself slight there so forgive me. "She doesn't even know her own book!" [laughter] Yes so that's one reason. Harry needs to decode. He said, he does say in this book, he's frightened by his decision not to race for the wand, because he had never chosen not to act. So that's Harry's real big coming of age moment, that he's decided to hold back for the first time very in his life. So the other two reasons that i have for him not t speak to Dumbledore's portrait, first of all, I crated a lot of rules for this world and then later had to navigate my away around them. But this rule was always good, and the rule was that portraits could only move between portraits in the same building. so if I'm in a picture and you're in a picture and we're both in Carnegie Hall, then we can move into each other's pictures. Otherwise we can only move only to other places where we have a portrait. You can't just move willy nilly through all the - the Louvre, the Met - you can't do a world tour, as a picture person. You are limited by geography. So there was that reason. And then lastly of course, the third reason, is it really would be too easy and I wouldn't have had a plot.
Carnegie Hall _________________
^courtesy of Arabella
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