Marie listened as Professor Lafay answered everyone about what they would take out with them in case of a fire. And yes, Marie WAS a true Slytherin.

How was developing pictures done? That was easy. Marie put her hand in the air. "You take your film to one of those places that develops pictures and let them do it for you." At least that's what she would do. She wasn't a film developer after all.

Putting her hand down she realized how much that sounded like a Destiny answer. Eh, it was to be expected that at some point Marie would start sounding like the girl. They were best friends after all.

Alyssa knew how the Muggles did it, but she never ever thought how the wizarding world did it until the Professor posed the question. Alyssa figured that maybe it was done the same way as the Muggle way only there was the magic portion to it. So she raised her hand and answered "Muggles would take a picture with a camera which is then transfered on to a thing called a memory stick which is then transferred onto a computer. Some muggles still use old fashioned film. The film is brought into the dark room and developed in a solution. Then once the negative is created, they 'transfer' the image onto photopaper and dip the paper in various chemical solutions. Eventually the image appears. As for the wizarding world, I think one would look at the person in question as they moved around and posed for the person, and then the looker would transfer those memories onto paper. That way the image is actually a faint imprint or memory of the person". Alyssa knew that it sounded stupid but it was worth a guess.

"Professor, doesn`t one have to go into a darkroom, place the photo into a special mixture, then hang the photo up and wait for it to develop?" At least that's how she'd heard it done it the muggle world.

"Me too. Memories are irreplaceable. For everyone it's different, and there is no wrong answer," though be it stupid ones Miss Shepard... socks... really... "but this is the answer I was looking for."

She touched the drawer in which her most precious photo was stored and continued. “Today we are going to be brewing the potion you will run wizard film through to make the pictures move. Does anyone know how developing pictures is done?” She asked.[/QUOTE]
William raised his hand "Well since I am half- Muggle and have a lot of muggle freinds and family. I have an idea how they develop pictures" Wiliam told the professor. " I have heard that muggles go in a dark room and develop pictures in the room" Willaim said to the professor. " I know they put them in some type solution to develop the pictures" Willaim explained to the professor.

Aurora had no idea how the film was developed... she'd made similar potions before. Well - helped make them... She still wasn't quite sure what you did with them. Though she sort of remembered something... "Isn't it much the same as muggle photos? Except, instead of the solution of that acid-y thing they use, we use a potion." And the film was different, right?

Kurumi looked around the room sheepishly. She might be one of the few people who actually had some hands on experience with developing wizarding photographs thanks to being on the yearbook.

Kurumi waited her turn to speak. "For yearbook, we have our own dark room where we develop pictures. It is not too different from the non-magical way of doing thing really. The biggest difference is that we use a Developing Solution that allows our pictures to move." What all went into that potion was beyond the fourth year. "The solution will work on all film types, not just wizarding film."

Okay whatever, a wand was just an extension of your arm and Tori had yet to learn the summoning charm, but she was convinced she had the only right answer. People bringing socks and books. *scoff* Who did that? Huh?

Anyway. Today it seemed they were brewing something both useful and interesting --- wow, what a change! Tori continued making sarcastic comments in her head as she sat up and raised her hand.

"Don't you have to like, soak the film, and then dump a cauldronload of chemicals on it, and then.... rinse it off and like expose to light and... stuff?"

Yep, a very exact process.

Developing pictures...

Jonathan spent the whole summer with Ryu and Ryu is a photographer both in the muggle world and in the wizarding world. Jonathan had seen him once develop his films "They(Photographers) soak the film into a certain solution. Rinse it with water and then dry it it afterwards" After a while the picture will just appear. It's fascinating how it does that "Oh... you also need to have a dark room first" he added.

That's probably one of the most important thing one photographer must have... a dark room to develop his own films.

Minerva put her hand up. "Well professor in the muggle world we have cameras that have film in them. When getting them developed they are put in a dark room and placed in some chemicals to develop. I'm not completely sure for the wizard film, but is it kind of the same, but with a certain developing potion and maybe a charm?"

Photos. Memories.

With this lesson and the previous one, Nora could only guess that professor Lafay had a broken heart. Didn't she? Not that it was any of Nora's business.

And... developing a picture... "It is done in a dark room," she said hesitantly with a hand in the air. "Some kind of..." she almost said 'potion', "chemical solution is needed, in which muggles put the film, and then they let it dry." Or something like that.

Sarah knew a lot about Muggles and ofcourse, about muggle photos. Her uncle had showed her a lot of things people think are too dull about the muggles. Infact, they are all interesting.

"The muggle photos are taken into the dark room and developed in a solution. After the negative is created, it is transferred photopaper and is dipped in chemical solutions, mostly silver halides, aldehydes and sulphites" she said. I hope that made some sense. She paused for a moment. "Then if the normal muggle photos are developed in certain potions, the resulting images would move" she said, "I know not of the original wizard process" That would be something similar.

"Right." Cass muttered under her breath. She knew that. Freya wasn't an objects. Heh, of course not. She would just have to bring her trunk then, why settle for one thing when you can save a while bunch of things all at the same time?

Then her eyebrows knotted in concentration for a moment and thought, she most certainly didn't know how the moving pictures were developed, but it couldn't be that different compared to the muggle way, right?

So, she took a deep breath before answering "Well, I'm not sure about magical pictures, Professor, but for muggle photographs, they sort of soak it in some sort of solution and they hang it to dry in a dark room." Well, that's what Nathan told her, but of course, he could have just been messing with her.

A potion THAT RUN WIZARD FILM THROUGH TO MAKE PICTURES MOVE?! That's probably one of the BEST potions ever invented!

How developing pictures are done? Katrina raised her hand.
"Well, there are some cameras that, when you take the picture, the developed product instantly goes out, like the Muggle Polaroid." Katrina explained. "I'm not sure about how Wizards develop their pictures but in the Muggle world, they use this machine and then they develop it."

That's how the Muggles do it.

Raising her hand India finally piped in. After all she had been thinking rather hard on how to develop a potion to make a picture move the way wizarding pictures move so fluidly - like the subject is alive and is able to move from picture to picture. Since most of the time they indeed do do that.

"Well wouldn't you need a potion to make the pictures develop in a way that they would move...a sort of motion potion." Huh it rhymed. "Wouldn't it be since its for wizard film a sort of Digital Evolution Potion...as well as a motion potion - maybe combining the two together into one combined potion or dropping the film first into the Digital Evolution Potion and then later into the Motion so it evolves form a mundane picture to a moving picture." Maybe she was smart. Maybe she was bonkers. She didn't mind.

Erin raised her hand and speaks at the instant, "Muggles develop photos in a dark room. The muggle camera has a sort of negative paper called a film and it's where the photographs are stored. In a dark room, the negatives are exposed to a UV light to be transferred in a glossy paper. It is then soak in some kind of solution and dry it. However in digital cameras nowadays, the picture can be printed straight from the camera."

Thinking for a moment, she considered to present her ideas about the wizard photos as well. So, there was actually a solution to make a wizard photograph where the figures are moving? "I think in the case of wizard photographs where people are moving, it would only mean a different solution to dip the photos on? Or maybe, the camera itself was magical in its own way."

Janice thought for a while, then raised her hand and answered.
"Well, you came into some sort of dark room, then you do some stuff with the films, dip it in a solution and hang it up to dry. The pictures will be ruined if even only a teeny little bit of light come across them; makes them have some sort of sepia-ish characteristics..."

These people keep giving examples of muggle stuffs... do they expect a pure-blood who doesn't take Muggle Studies to understand? The corner of her lips twitches before she raises up her hand to answer. "I'm sure we've dark rooms where those photographers produce moving pictures..." she pauses for a while. "Or there's always the Photo Animating Charm." Maybe...

Isabelle raised her hand. "In the Muggle world there is some sort of dark room involved with transfering the pictures from the film, though I am not completely sure how it works. But these days there are digital cameras and lots of people put their pictures on this piece of Muggle technology called a computer. I think you can order prints and stuff, but I am not sure how they develop them without the film," Isabelle said cheerfully. Well that was partially right for sure. There was a dark room involved. Plus she knew that they did use digital cameras now.

If Ronnie could take one thing from her dorm what would it be. "I think I would grab my kitten." She added, or the photo of her dad, he wasn't replaceable anymore. She sighed, she couldn't bring up her dad now, she would start crying again.

And this business of developing pictures. Ronnie wasn't sure how in the wizarding world but in the muggle world she knew. "Professor, in the muggle world there are chemicals that you place the photo in a dark room, often the rooms have a red light." She sighed trying to remember what else there was involved. "And then they have to hang to dry and they develope over time."

She looked down but then thought about what else she knew. "But the muggles have all gone digital, so much muggles don't eve use film anymore. She thought about her own camera at home.

Jesifur did not know how to develop pictures, so she readied her quill to take massive notes.

At Prof. Lafay's question about the potion to make the wizarding pictures move, Orr grew excited. She was incredibly fascinated by them and now she was going to learn the very potion that enabled it.

Penny didn't know how muggles developed their photographs, but then again, she didn't really understand magical photo development either....
So she continued to take notes as she listened to the other students.

Daisy swallowed. She'd gone too far. Even she knew that. You did not hug Lafay, then answer her back and get away with it. No way. And, being the idiot she was, she had expected the Professor to take points before giving her detention. And how wrong she was...
'Yes, Professor,' she mumbled, looking vaguely in the distance as she felt her cheeks go slightly red. It wouldn't have been so bad, but she could feel the entire classes' eyes following her and Rose, who had also earned herself detention.

Something hit Daisy as though she had been punched in the stomach. What if she missed the Qudditch match? She would die, but if she said anything, Lafay was sure to put the detention on the match, making her miss all of if. Though she had probably already sussed that after the comment about the broom...

'Um, when will it be, Professor?' she asked nervously, shooting a sideways glance at her best friend Rose. Hopefully they would be doing it together....

Rose sighed happily. Finally. Something to be proud of! A detention! Something that she could tell her kids about when she was older! She wouldn't need Potions. Definitely not. Psh. Anyway. Detention.

'Sure, Ma'am! When can I- I mean, when do I have to do it?' Rose asked cheerfully. No point in letting Lafay think she had scared Rose. Took a lot more than a psycho Potions teacher to do that. And Lafay had just given her what she wanted. Hmm... Did that still make her a psycho? Or not... It was a dificult decision... No, still psycho. Just not as much as before!

She looked at Daisy, who looked scared and sighed. She put her hand under the table and squeezed Daisy's hand carefully. 'Don't worry...' she whispered, making sure no-one would be able to tell that she was talking. 'Detention's are fine...' Well. If they were together, that is. If not, well. I guess it'd suck. Rose had broken rules before, lost housepoints and such, but Daisy probably hadn't...

Gwen wasn't that much into photography, but tried to think logically about how pictures were developed. 'Well, they need to be developed in a dark room...', she began saying, and suddenly remembered why that was. Nah, no need to mention that too, she thought and decided to shut up.

'And the negatives of the pictures are usually passed through some chemicals-' Meh, or something like that... Aaaand- obviously- moving pictures can me made if you use some special liquidish thing- the potion we are brewing today. Duh.