Harry's eyes

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 77331

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, catportkey at a... wrote:
> Harry may have his mother's eyes in shape and color, but the poor
> kid inherited the poor eyesight from Dad!
> Yet, the question remains ... is there no cure?

YES.

> And if Harry went to a muggle for glasses, do wizards go to 
> specialists for their eyes?  

YES.

> Do they purchase them at Lenswizards?  

YES.

> And are the frames as expensive as muggle frames?

NO. Eye glasses are the consummate RIP OFF. $350 for some wire and a
couple pieces of pastic; please.

> Come to think of it, Harry probably got his glasses from Muggle 
> Lenscrafters - - they keep on breaking.  Wizard glasses are probably
> unbreakable. 
> 
> Pook

bboy_mn:
You are aware, or perhaps not, that muggle can cure nearsightedness.
There is a method developed decades ago called the Bates method.
developed by William Bates. It is a proven method for curing
neardsightedness.

So why don't we muggles us it? 

Why, because we are a society driven by commerce. There is no money to
be made in curing people. Especially, when those people can go home
and cure themselves after a few consultations, and there is nothing to
prevent those people from passing the information on to their friends
free of charge. 

Search Google for 'Bates Method' and you'll find hunderds of sites on
this subject.

I suspect wizards can cure many vision problems, afterall, most vision
problems are just a change in the shape of the eyeball that prevents
the eye lense from sharply focusing on the retina. Magically forcing
the eyeball back into shape can't be that hard. 

But ask yourself this, why does Dumbledore still have a scar on his
knee? Why does Dumbledore still have a broken nose? Certainly those
could be fixed. I think partly it is because, they are battle scars,
momentos and signs of past experience. You see a scared and broken
wizard (Moody) and you respect him because you know that this is a
person who has been many place, seen many things, and has much life
experience. 

As far as most glasses we see, I get the sense that they are reading
glasses, it seems like I remember Dumbledore frequently looking over
the top of his glasses. As far as the eyes in general, Dumbledore is
+150 years old; wizards live and die, they are not immortal. Their
bodies do deteriorate with time, and apprently that normal
deterioratoin can not be completely undone. Wizard, like all living
things, eventually run out of time.

There is also a vanity aspect of it. I think to some extent, the
presents of glasses enhances a wizard's or witches' appearance of
'wisdom' and intelligence. Don't we automatically associate glasses
with Nerds?

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn