Norbert
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Auf der englischsprachigen Site gipt es schon wieder eine neue Frage:

Section: F.A.Q.
Why did Colin Creevey's camera work etc?
As a vast number of people have pointed out to me in the last twenty four hours (some of them related to me by ties of blood) Colin DID develop a photograph from his camera in 'Chamber of Secrets' (my previous answer stated that he never did so).

Cameras, like radios (or, as the wizards call them 'wirelesses' – they're always a bit behind the times when it comes to Muggle technology) do exist in the wizarding world (there's a radio in the Weasleys' kitchen and we know there are cameras because of the moving photographs you see everywhere). Wizards do not need electricity to make these things work; they function by magic, but in the case of such objects the wizards liked the Muggle invention enough to appropriate the idea without adding cumbersome plugs/batteries.

I have an old notebook in which it says dev sol (potion) magic [indecipherable word] photos move. Adept as I am at interpreting my old scribbles, I can tell you that the original idea was that wizards would use a magical developing potion to make their photographs move.

SO... as Colin's batteries can't work in Hogwarts, clearly his camera is running off the magical atmosphere and he is then developing his photographs in the magical potion that causes the figures therein to move. All of which goes to show that Colin has a lot more initiative than I ever realised.

The poll question answer has also been queried, but I didn't get that one wrong – for details, see P.S.

I have learned something from this experience, which is that when you proof read twenty chapters at a sitting, then decide to do some FAQs for the website in the early hours of the morning, you mess up. I'll make sure I'm a bit more alert for the next batch.

05.10.2004 17:59

Stiftmine
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Dabei seit: 08.11.2003

Na toll, JKR ist gemein. Ihre Antworten klären uns nicht auf, sie machen uns neugieriger. Also dann, es gab noch mehr Briefe an Petunia, von denen wir nichts wissen.

05.10.2004 17:58

Ravanna
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Dabei seit: 18.06.2004

@xxx wenn du den link zu www.jkrowling.com wählst und unten auf die deutsche Falgge klickst, dann öffnet sich die Flash-Seite, dann die Büroklmmern und den Umschlag - da findest du dann auch alles übersetzt;-)

05.10.2004 17:44

lilioutanerin
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ich bin nur zweite aber ich finds cool dass jkr die fragen beantwortet

05.10.2004 17:34