Harry's glasses.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 77453

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4" 
<severusbook4 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jedi_hermione"
> > <acpurplekitty at j...> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > > >   JKR said this at Quickquotes    
> > > > 
> > > >   ... outraged that an Italian dust jacket shows Harry minus 
> his 
> > > glasses. "Don't they understand that they are the clue to his 
> > > vulnerability?"  
> <SNIP>
> 
> > Well, we can associate glasses with eye, and the association with 
> > eyes has always been to Harry having his mother's eyes, and for   
> > some reason, we have always associated that with a strength or    
> > perhaps a tool/weapon. The above could now imply that having      
> > Lily's eyes is not a strength but a weakness.
> > 
> > But then who knows.
> > 
> > bboy_mn
> 

Severus Snape:
> Another idea just struck me, Lily could not bear to "see" her son 
> Harry die, so she sacrificed herself to spare him.  LV said she 
> didn't have to die.  HMMMM? So what if Harry has the same intense 
> amount of love for his friends (his only family in his eyes) that, 
> in seeing one of them about to be AK'ed by LV, he does the same 
> thing?  LV askes him to join him instead, but Harry refuses and 
> sacrifices his life for his friends instead?  Passing the 
protection 
> to someone new, so now LV is no longer protected from it by Harry's 
> blood?  Just a thought.
> 
> One more thing.  Has anyone notice Kadavra sounds alot like cadaver?
> 

Geoff:
I hadn't. I tend to associate it more with "Abracadabra". 
Also "cadaver" is not a word which is used much in the UK. It's more 
of an American word. We stick to the more genteel "corpse".
:-)