[HPforGrownups] Reader's Digest Article JKR & HP's vulnerability

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 16010

At 04:25 PM 4/6/01 -0500, Doreen wrote:
>Has this group read and discussed the Reader's Digest article about JKR? I
>forgot I had it, since I was not reading HP at the time I read the article.
>There was an interesting bit in there about his eyeglasses and his
>vulnerability. JKR was peeved at one of the book cover artists in some other
>country, for drawing HP without his glasses. She said something like,
>"Doesn't he realize that Harry's glasses are the key to his vulnerability?"

Well, I've already commented on my theory that Salazaar Slytherin cursed
all decendants of Goderic Gryiffindor so that they need glasses, and that
the curse will break when Harry vanquishes V (after which he will no longer
need glasses!).  But this is all wild speculation on my part... I do think 
Harry's
glasses are significant, however.  (Note too that most of the spectacle-wearing
people whose house we know -- Harry, James, Percy, McGonnegal -- are all
Gryffindors.)



                                                 -- Dave