Q. How is a portrait created?
Throughout the seven Harry Potter novels, there are many interesting magical artifacts. Some of the plethora of magical items are portraits. We see portraits primarily in the halls of Hogwarts, and most notably in Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore himself has a portrait that hangs in the headmaster's office almost immediately following his death. The portraits in the novels are able to communicate with living beings. For example, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Severus Snape communicates with the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black who travels between his portrait at Hogwarts and his portrait stowed away in Hermione Granger's beaded bag. The portrait relays multiple pieces of information to Snape, and probably the most important one led Snape to the Forest of Dean where he placed the Sword of Godric Gryffindor in a pool for Harry Potter to find in the Silver Doe chapter. Portraits also seem to have their own sense of emotion. At the end of the final book, Harry visits the headmaster's office one last time to find the portraits of all the previous headmasters cheering, and even to see Albus Dumbledore shedding a tear in his. Other famous portraits in the series include those of the Fat Lady, Sir Cadogan, Ariana Dumbledore, Armando Dippet, and Dilys Derwent. A question commonly proposed amongst the Harry Potter fandom is regarding how a magical portrait is created. One of the Potter People news reporters, Isaac Knopf, states, "I think it would have to be a spell. I don't know what exactly it would do, but I'm sure it's some spell." Alejandra Shelton, host of Potter People Podcast, also thinks that the portraits would be created with a spell. The spell could possibly be a charm placed on the headmaster once he becomes the school's leader and would create itself once he or she passes away or steps down from office. But the Potter People cannot decide, for they are not Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Whether readers find out in Pottermore's installment of Chamber of Secrets or in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, how is a portrait created?
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