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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
Okay, take this for what it's worth, supposedly Harry can't Spoiler: be a horcrux, because he would have to kill Harry to retrieve it, and once Harry is dead, it would be gone forever. Only objects can be horcruxes. Dumbledore explained this to Harry. .
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Could you be more explicit? I don't recall that explaination in the books. Where in the book was this said?
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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
And you Spoiler: don't need to feel hatred to kill somebody with avada kedavera, your "karate" just has to be stronger than theirs. At any rate, Dumbledore showed up in his portrait, so he's dead.
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That could be faked. Did you notice that Spoiler:
DD's portrait was pretty, how do you say, passive?
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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
The thing I've never gotten, portraits talk. The portraits that hang in Dumbledore's office all offer advice, unsolicited or not. They show emotion. So, why haven't Harry's parent's ever talked to him? Other pictures do.
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Some portraits talk, others do not. How they differ is not something that has been made clear -- it would be pretty easy for JK to come up with a mumbo-jumbo explaination (different techniques for intelligent portraits as opposed to simple animated ones).
I know of 4 seemingly distinct kinds of portraits.
1> Intelligent ones of people who we knew once existed, and are dead. The annoying loud one, or the ones in DD's office.
2> Ones of possibly non-existant people -- the artwork on the walls in Hogwarts? These could all be category <1>.
3> Relatively passive ones. Used on trading cards, and seemingly more common.
4> Possibly another category of 'utility' portraits -- the Spoiler:
one in the prime minister's office. These could also be type <1>.
Type <3> portraits have, in my memory, all been small in size, and usually photographs. Maybe there is the difference: magic paintings vs magic photographs?