[HPFGU-Movie] silly question

[GulPlum]

ArtsyLynda wrote:
>How's this for a silly question -- since Daniel Radcliffe in real life needs
>to wear glasses, did they put his prescription in Harry's glasses??  Those
>glasses don't look like they have any prescription in them, the few times
>they look like glass.  I just cleaned my glasses and that thought occurred to
>me -- why not put Dan's prescription in the glasses, since he needs them
>anyway?  He must not need them very badly to be able to make do without them.

D.R. said somewhere along the way that he no longer needs specs. His 
prescription must have been pretty weak for him to be able to say that 
truthfully.

As I understand it (I am a specs-wearer and count at least two optometrists 
among my friends), if a child (i.e. pre-puberty) requires corrective 
lenses, it is  usually a sign of a congenital defect somewhere along the 
line - such children are destined to require correction indefinitely (the 
most common defects usually get slightly worse during puberty but then get 
slightly better when one approaches 40). Furthermore, men with defective 
vision have a 90-something per cent chance of passing it on to their sons. 
Dan's dad wears glasses. Draw your own conclusions. :-)

All in all, I think Dan is telling porkies about not requiring specs any 
more. :-)

As for whether or not he was given corrective lenses in his prop 
spectacles, I recall reading somewhere that the ones he wore on screen are 
real spectacles created by Dollond & Aitchison (www.danda.co.uk; real 
opticians - as it happens, they provide mine as well) :-) who as part of 
the deal were licensed to produce and sell branded Harry Potter spectacles 
(http://www.danda.co.uk/html/kids_at_danda/harrypotter.asp) - certainly 
they would have examined Dan to create the right size, etc, so they could 
well have produced corrective lenses if he requires them. The fact that in 
both films, there are scenes during which it's obvious that there's no 
glass in the specs makes me wonder that they'd have him going from 
corrective lenses to none at all as his eyes would appear different. Plain 
glass would have meant his eyes would react the same way all the time.

--
GulPlum AKA Richard, who does *not* wear HP-branded specs! :-)