Why It Sucks To Be a Hogwarts Portrait

Why It Sucks To Be a Hogwarts Portrait You appear somewhere on the walls of Hogwarts Castle, and congratulations, you are a portrait. One moment there is nothing, and then there is you, standing in a painted room with a chair behind you and a bookshelf to your left and a window straight ahead showing a countryside that does not move. You press your hand against the window and it holds firm, so you turn around and walk toward the other side of your canvas, three steps, and then your hand hits something you cannot see. You push against it and it pushes back, so you try again with your whole body and nothing happens. The edge of your frame is right there, close enough to touch from the other side, and beyond it is a stone corridor stretching left and right with torches on the walls and students moving below. You watch them pass and none of them look up.