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Headmaster's Office[]

I know that this portrait is on the wall in Dumbledore's Office in the film, but according to the books, there's no portrait of Dumbledore on those walls until after Dumbledore's killed in book 6. Should we change the article? WeaseleyIsOurKing89 (talk) 09:52, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I think it should be changed. It's not book canon that he had a portrait then, and Rowling has explained the portraits are of dead people which he was not in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets book and film. - Kates39 (talk) 10:45, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

That's only in the Headmaster's Office, though? I don't think every portrait elsewhere in the castle has to be of a deceased person, or am I misremembering? A portrait of a younger McGonagall is in the Gryffindor Common Room along with other Heads of Houses while she was still teaching, and Horace Slughorn got a portrait in the Slytherin Common Room when he retired a second time, and he wasn't mentioned to have died either I think? WeaseleyIsOurKing89 (talk) 12:39, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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