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'''Portraits''' are paintings made of certain individuals, namely [[Wizardkind|witches and warlocks]].<ref name="HPLE">{{HPLE}}</ref> |
'''Portraits''' are paintings made of certain individuals, namely [[Wizardkind|witches and warlocks]].<ref name="HPLE">{{HPLE}}</ref> |
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− | The subject of a [[magic]]al portrait is sentient due to [[Charm|enchantments]] placed on the portrait by the painter. |
+ | The subject of a [[magic]]al portrait is sentient due to [[Charm|enchantments]] placed on the portrait by the painter. The portrait will be able to use some of the subject's favourite phrases and imitate their general demeanour based on how the subject appears to the painter; however, they are limited in what they can say or do.<ref name="pottermore">{{PM|hogwarts-portraits}}</ref> A portrait can also move from portrait to portrait, or else visit a portrait of them elsewhere in the world.<ref name="OOTP37">{{OOTP|B|37}}</ref> |
[[Bimp]], [[Oliver Cartwright]], [[John Homme]], [[Luxo Karuzos]], [[Pablo Picasso]] and [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] were all expert painters. [[Magenta Comstock]] was an experimental painter whose subjects' eyes followed their viewers home.<ref name="WotM">''[[Wizard of the Month]]''</ref> |
[[Bimp]], [[Oliver Cartwright]], [[John Homme]], [[Luxo Karuzos]], [[Pablo Picasso]] and [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] were all expert painters. [[Magenta Comstock]] was an experimental painter whose subjects' eyes followed their viewers home.<ref name="WotM">''[[Wizard of the Month]]''</ref> |
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==Depiction== |
==Depiction== |
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− | A witch or wizard can go to a [[Wizarding world|wizarding painter]] to have themselves painted. |
+ | A witch or wizard can go to a [[Wizarding world|wizarding painter]] to have themselves painted. This is usually done so that the portraitist can [[Charm|enchant]] the portait to have some characteristics of the subject. The portrait will be able to use some of the subject's favourite phrases and imitate their general demeanour.> When a magical portrait is taken, the witch or wizard artist will naturally use enchantments to ensure that the painting will be able to move in the usual way.<ref name="pottermore"/> |
==Portrait person== |
==Portrait person== |
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− | [[Sir Cadogan]]'s portrait is forever challenging people to a fight, falling off its horse and behaving in a fairly unbalanced way, which is how the subject appeared to the poor wizard who had to paint him, while the portrait of the [[Fat Lady]] continues to indulge her love of good food, drink, and tip-top security long after her living model passed away.<ref |
+ | [[Sir Cadogan]]'s portrait is forever challenging people to a fight, falling off its horse and behaving in a fairly unbalanced way, which is how the subject appeared to the poor wizard who had to paint him, while the portrait of the [[Fat Lady]] continues to indulge her love of good food, drink, and tip-top security long after her living model passed away.<ref name="pottermore"/> |
− | A portrait knows little if anything of its subject's life, and therefore could not hold a very interesting conversation about its subject. |
+ | A portrait knows little if anything of its subject's life, and therefore could not hold a very interesting conversation about its subject. As they are only representations of the living subjects as seen by the artist.<ref name="pottermore"/> The exception to this is of the [[Headmaster portraits|portraits of Hogwarts headmasters]], which are kept in [[Headmaster portraits' cupboard|a cupboard]] from the time of their painting, which is usually very old,<ref name="HPLE" /> until the subject dies.<ref name="pottermore" /> The [[headmaster]] can therefore teach their portrait to act and speak like them so that they can teach their successors.<ref name="pottermore" /> Despite this, the people in the portraits were considered a sort of memoir or support mechanism. Prior to taking up the post of Headmistress of Hogwarts on a permanent basis, [[Minerva McGonagall]] was advised to not mistake those in the paintings for actual people.<ref name="CC210">{{CC|B|2|10}}</ref> The depth of knowledge and insight contained in some of the headmasters' and headmistresses' portraits is unknown to any but the incumbents of the office and the few students who have realised, over the centuries, that the portraits' apparent sleepiness when visitors arrive in the office is not necessarily genuine.<ref name="pottermore"/> |
The person depicted in a portrait can therefore live indefinitely,<ref name="immortal">As Phineas Nigellus lived for at least seventy-three years after his portrait was painted, seemingly without ageing or dying.</ref> although a portrait does have reason to fear for their life or well-being.<ref name="POA8">{{POA|B|8}}</ref> |
The person depicted in a portrait can therefore live indefinitely,<ref name="immortal">As Phineas Nigellus lived for at least seventy-three years after his portrait was painted, seemingly without ageing or dying.</ref> although a portrait does have reason to fear for their life or well-being.<ref name="POA8">{{POA|B|8}}</ref> |
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Portraits are paintings made of certain individuals, namely witches and warlocks.[1]
The subject of a magical portrait is sentient due to enchantments placed on the portrait by the painter. The portrait will be able to use some of the subject's favourite phrases and imitate their general demeanour based on how the subject appears to the painter; however, they are limited in what they can say or do.[2] A portrait can also move from portrait to portrait, or else visit a portrait of them elsewhere in the world.[3]
Bimp, Oliver Cartwright, John Homme, Luxo Karuzos, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci were all expert painters. Magenta Comstock was an experimental painter whose subjects' eyes followed their viewers home.[4]
Depiction
A witch or wizard can go to a wizarding painter to have themselves painted. This is usually done so that the portraitist can enchant the portait to have some characteristics of the subject. The portrait will be able to use some of the subject's favourite phrases and imitate their general demeanour.> When a magical portrait is taken, the witch or wizard artist will naturally use enchantments to ensure that the painting will be able to move in the usual way.[2]
Portrait person
Sir Cadogan's portrait is forever challenging people to a fight, falling off its horse and behaving in a fairly unbalanced way, which is how the subject appeared to the poor wizard who had to paint him, while the portrait of the Fat Lady continues to indulge her love of good food, drink, and tip-top security long after her living model passed away.[2]
A portrait knows little if anything of its subject's life, and therefore could not hold a very interesting conversation about its subject. As they are only representations of the living subjects as seen by the artist.[2] The exception to this is of the portraits of Hogwarts headmasters, which are kept in a cupboard from the time of their painting, which is usually very old,[1] until the subject dies.[2] The headmaster can therefore teach their portrait to act and speak like them so that they can teach their successors.[2] Despite this, the people in the portraits were considered a sort of memoir or support mechanism. Prior to taking up the post of Headmistress of Hogwarts on a permanent basis, Minerva McGonagall was advised to not mistake those in the paintings for actual people.[5] The depth of knowledge and insight contained in some of the headmasters' and headmistresses' portraits is unknown to any but the incumbents of the office and the few students who have realised, over the centuries, that the portraits' apparent sleepiness when visitors arrive in the office is not necessarily genuine.[2]
The person depicted in a portrait can therefore live indefinitely,[6] although a portrait does have reason to fear for their life or well-being.[7]
Magical photographs
A witch or wizard may also produce a magical photograph, photographs that have been put through a special potion. While some of these may simply be animated images occurring in a continuous loop, some react to their surroundings. Gilderoy Lockhart had "countless framed photographs" of himself in his office. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione were taken to his office to be interviewed by Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape in the Chamber of Secrets, pictures of Lockhart (with his hair now in rollers) dodged out of sight. A few moments later, the photographs were nodding in agreement as Lockhart spoke.[8]
Known portraits
Portrait | Known locations | Notes |
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Albus Dumbledore | During Severus Snape's time as Headmaster the painting hid the Sword of Gryffindor, to keep it safe from Lord Voldemort. He later provided advice to Harry Potter. | |
Ambrose Swott | ||
Anne Boleyn |
Grand Staircase near the 2nd floor landing | |
Ariana Dumbledore |
Aberforth's room at the Hog's Head Inn |
In 1997–1998 school year, her portrait concealed a secret passage to the Room of Requirement. |
Armando Dippet | ||
Barnabas the Barmy |
7th floor, Hogwarts Castle | |
Professor Basil Fronsac | Secret passages:
| |
Grand Staircase | ||
Library | ||
Dungeons | ||
Bloody Baron |
Near the Potions Classroom |
Slytherin House Ghost |
Brian Gagwilde III | ||
Grand Staircase | ||
Brutus Scrimgeour | Concealed a secret passage between the Trophy Room and the 4th floor. | |
Circe | Concealed a secret passage between the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. | |
Entrance Hall side room | ||
Damara Dodderidge | 1995 to 1997* Her portrait concealed a secret passage from the Grand Staircase to the Clock Tower. | |
Clock Tower | ||
Gryffindor Tower | ||
Daryle | Unknown | |
Dexter Fortescue | ||
Dilys Derwent | ||
St Mungo's main admitting area | ||
Edgar Stroulger |
Sixth floor of Hogwarts Castle |
Guards a secret passage in 1993 |
Elfrida Cragg |
Headquarters of the British Ministry of Magic |
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Elizabeth Burke | 1991 to 1995*Grand Staircase1995 to 1996*Entrance Dungeon*Near the entrance to the Potions Classroom*The 7th floor corridor | 1995 to 1996 her portrait concealed 2 secret passageways:
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Emeric Switch | ||
Edessa Sakndenberg | ||
East Wing | ||
Grand Staircase | ||
Other Halls | ||
Everard | ||
British Ministry of Magic Headquarters | ||
Fat Friar |
One of the Hogwarts Castle's corridors |
Hufflepuff House Ghost |
Fat Lady |
Guards the Gryffindor Tower |
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George von Rheticus | 1995–1996 school year
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Secret passages:
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Giffard Abbott |
Grand Staircase, below the first landing |
1995 to 1997 guarded 2 short-cuts:
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Transfiguration Courtyard | ||
Clock Tower | ||
Corridor outside the library | ||
Gilderoy Lockhart |
DADA office and classroom |
Only during the 1992–1993 school year |
Glanmore Peakes |
6th floor Glanmore Peakes' Corridor |
Concealed a secret passage between the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. |
6th floor landing of the Grand Staircase | ||
Entrance Hall side room | ||
Godric Gryffindor |
7th floor landing of the Grand Staircase |
Guarded a secret passage between the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room.One of the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
Entrance Hall side room | ||
Google Stump | Concealed a secret passage to the 1st floor corridor. | |
Greta Catchlove | Concealed a secret passage between the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. | |
Entrance Hall side room | ||
Günther der Gewalttätige ist der Gewinner |
Unknown |
Depicts Gunther the Violent |
Harry Potter Sketch | Probably now in the rubbish bin | Drawn by Draco Malfoy and given to Harry to unnerve him about the upcoming Quidditch match. |
Helena Ravenclaw |
Near the Library |
Her portrait was non-speaking |
Heliotrope Wilkins | ||
Grand Staircase | ||
Hengist Rawkes |
Near the 1st floor landing of the Grand Staircase | |
Iris Pivis | ||
Merwyn the Malicious |
3rd floor landing of the Grand Staircase |
Concealed a secret passage between the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. |
Entrance Hall side room | ||
Mirabella Plunkett |
1st floor landing of the Grand Staircase |
Concealed a secret passage between the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. |
Entrance Hall side room | ||
Newton Scamander | ||
Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington | ||
Norvel Twonk |
5th floor landing of the Grand Staircase |
Concealed a secret passage between the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. |
Entrance Hall side room | ||
Oraclitus Spheer |
Gryffindor Reading Room |
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Percival Pratt | 1995–1996 school year
| |
Boathouse | ||
Phineas Nigellus Black | ||
12 Grimmauld Place | ||
People watching Quidditch | ||
Professor Walter Aragon | ||
Headmaster's office | ||
Quentin Trimble | ||
Salazar Slytherin |
Dungeons antechamber |
Concealed a secret passage between the Dungeons antechamber and the Entrance Hall side room.[9]One of the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
Entrance Hall side room | ||
Sedley Smirkpaltter | ||
Severus Snape | ||
Sir Cadogan |
7th floor, Hogwarts Castle |
In 1993, he was temporarily the guard to the Gryffindor Tower while the Fat Lady's portrait was being repaired. |
Timothy the Timid | 1995–1996 school year
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Secret Passages:
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Tobias Manlethorpe | ||
Temeritus Shanks | 1992–1993 school year
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Secret passages:
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Unidentified red-haired witch | Grand Staircase | |
Valeria Myriadd | 1991–1992 school year
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Secret passage between the Gryffindor Tower to a Disused seventh floor bathroom |
Vindictus Viridian | Concealed the entrance to the Room of Rewards. | |
Violet |
A small chamber off of the Great Hall |
Is friends with the Fat Lady. |
Vulpus | ||
Walburga Black | Magically fixed to the wall with a Permanent Sticking Charm. | |
Woman in the hospital wing |
Behind the scenes
- In the LEGO Harry Potter games, portraits are shown to be far more interactive than in any other media, with objects able to move from the portrait out to the real world and vice versa. Many puzzles in both games revolve around getting a portrait to give you a necessary object, or bringing a real world object into the portrait to assist its occupants.
- J. K. Rowling once claimed in an interview that all of the portraits seen at Hogwarts depict deceased individuals.[10] This is not strictly true, however; Gilderoy Lockhart owned several portraits of himself which he hung in his classroom and office.
- In a scene in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, a portrait features Lord Voldemort. This may be a coincidence, or the director's idea.
- In the film the Prisoner of Azkaban, Draco Malfoy enchants his sketch of a stupid-looking Harry Potter flying on a broomstick, crashing into things, to make Harry uneasy about the Quidditch Tournament.
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Wonderbook: Book of Spells
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter Limited Edition
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Hogwarts Portraits" at Pottermore
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 37 (The Lost Prophecy)
- ↑ Wizard of the Month
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Act Two, Scene Ten
- ↑ As Phineas Nigellus lived for at least seventy-three years after his portrait was painted, seemingly without ageing or dying.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 8 (Flight of the Fat Lady)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 7 (Mudbloods And Murmurs)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - PC version
- ↑ Edinburgh Book Festival, Sunday 15th August 2004