This is a thought that was bugging me. Now, as far as I can tell, wizarding pictures are a snapshot of the subject's personality. But then, why do wizarding pictures change with the personality changes? Like I'm thinking of the picture of Percy. Somewhere in book 5 we see an old family picture of the Weasleys, where Percy has walked out of the picture. Why/how do the photographic selves change? How do they know that their real selves' personality has changed? To what extent are the wizard photos sentient?

It would appear that wizard paintings have not just their image, but there personality painted with them. If I were to make a theory it would probably have something to do with the paint and/or the brush that makes the subject of the painting come alive. It seems to me that there is a painted world, where the people in paintings have friends, and rivals, and people they don't like, and all that jazz. But, then, there's the fiction vs. reality conflict. Let's say Sir Cadogen and the Fat Lady are both just made up. They were made up and painted to have their personalities. But the people like Mrs. Black and the old headmasters and headmistresses were real, and their personalities apparently mimick the personalities that they had when they were alive? But does that mean that anyone's painting would act just like them if they were painted? Or do you have to be dead for your portrait to be imbued with a personality? And how come wizard paintings have personalities, but wizard photographs seem to just wave and smile? Or well, do just a simple imitation of the personalities of the subjects? Why do they not talk?

These are questions that are just on my mind. If you have any ideas I would LOVE to hear them.

Todd