Colin's camera: Smoke/eye-glass, ghost

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 46963

I think it wasn't his *camera* that was smoking; it was the *film* 
inside it. It smoked, probably the same way as if you directed 
sunlight into it via a magnifying glass. The film burned and thus 
couldn't be used to say what/who petrified Colin and the others.

Myrtle died having seen Basilisk trough her eye-glasses... We don't 
see what kind of eye-problem her glasses were fixing, but at any 
rate, she has glasses so that the picture meets the proper place at 
the back of the eye, as the picture is otherwise unfocused. If she 
had not worn her eye-glasses or had tears in her eyes at the moment, 
she might have lived (but of course she had just wiped her eyes, 
cleaned her glasses and put them back on to see what was there... 
Poor Myrtle)

Justin saw the basilisk trough a ghost... If Nick acted as a lense, 
it hit behind or in the front of Justin's focus of vision...

-- Finwitch