[HPforGrownups] Re: Basilisk/Petrification Question

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 47557

Michelle wrote:

  I had always presumed that Myrtle had taken her glasses off to dry 
  her eyes when she saw the basilisk (don't know how I made that 
  assumption - maybe its because it's hard to dry your eyes whilst 
  wearing glasses) - however re-reading the scene where Harry asks her 
  how she died no comment is made on this although the reason she is in 
  her bathroom in the first place is because Olive made fun of her 
  glasses. However it is said that she unlocked the toilet door  before 
  she came face to face with the basilisk - so I would presume 
  (although it depends on how bad her eye sight is/was)that she would 
  put her glasses back on to do this (if she had taken them off in the 
  first place).
  As to whether seeing the basilisk through glasses would kill you or 
  not Harry when in was in the chamber deffinately thought it would - 
  but then again he probably wouldn't have know either way.

I'd never actually thought about the glasses stopping the basilisk from killing.  However, once it kept coming up I imagined that Myrtle had probably looked down to unlock the door, at which point her glasses may have slid down.  Then when she opened the door, lifted her eyes up so that she was looking over her glasses.  I wear glasses, and I do this all the time.  So she would've still had her glasses on, but looked the basilisk in the eye by looking over them.

Richelle

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