Camera

=Camera (Harry Potter)=
 A camera is a device used to take photographs. Originally a Muggle invention, their use had been adopted by wizardkind. In the wizarding world, cameras had been adapted to be powered by magic, rather than electricity, and printed photographs had the ability to move with the use of the developing solution. - F.A.Q. questions (archived here via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
==History==
Bozo, Rita Skeeter's photographer, owned one, using it to take pictures of Gilderoy Lockhart in 1992 and the Triwizard champions in 1994 for the Daily Prophet. The camera emitted a cloud of purple smoke with each flash.Colin Creevey's camera appeared to be a Muggle device, although since it did work at Hogwarts, it must not have had any electrical parts. During Colin's first year he took plenty of pictures of Harry, much to Harry's chagrin. Although the camera was non-magical, the pictures he took did move because he developed them in a special potion. Though many of his fellow students found it annoying, particularly Harry Potter, the camera ended up saving his life one night when he encountered a basilisk; Colin looked at the beast with his camera, presumably while about to take a picture of it, and was saved from its normally fatal gaze because of the camera lens. The camera itself, however, was destroyed in the process when the basilisk's killing stare burnt up its inner workings.George Weasley owned a camera, which he was seen holding in the Weasley family photograph taken during their trip to Egypt during the summer of 1993.If someone watched the eyes of a basilisk through a camera, the person would get petrified but would not die.
==See also==
*Cine-camera
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==Notes and references==
Category:Cameras
Category:Mister George-Weasley's Possessions