Harry's glasses.

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 77504

   
Joj:
... outraged that an Italian dust jacket shows Harry minus 
> his glasses. "Don't they understand that they are the clue to his 
> > > vulnerability?"   " 
> > > >   Hmm.  I'll have to think about what that could mean.

> bboy_mn:
> > 
>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.


Severusbook4:
> Perhaps it is his "vision" that is his weakness.  Not his eyes 
> physically but what he can see with them.  If he was unable to see 
> Sirius in the DOM, then he would not have put Sirius or his friends 
> at risk by trapsing off to save Sirius. (I know they were mental 
> projections of LV's) It seems that what he sees does get him in 
> trouble alot, the mirror, the spiders, etc. Maybe Harry will see 
the death of a friend too close to him, Ron or Hermione perhaps, and 
> this "vision" will push him too far to the brink of insanity.  
>Harry must be pretty close to a mental break down now, after all he 
>has been through and everything he knows (through the prophecy) that 
>is still to come.  Talk about stress, geez. 


Me, Margaret:

I've been thinking along those lines too, but not with the same 
result.  I think what he sees is a weakness he will have to overcome. 
He sees, whether by fate or Volemort's design, but he lacks the 
maturity to comprehend and evaluate what he sees with any semblance 
of logical detachment.  Look at how he reacts when Hermione just 
wants to make sure Sirius really isn't at Gimmauld Place? (sorry, 
don't have the book on me for pg #s)  He refuses to think through the 
consequences and/or implications of what he sees. 

 Yes, this is a sign of how much he loves Sirius, and cannot stand 
the idea of him being tortured.  And Dumbledore has said that this is 
his greatest strength.   But what if he is so swayed by believing 
what he sees, he cannot focus on his task (duty, destiny, whatever 
you want to call it) : to defeat Voldemort.  Harry's greatest 
strength could inevitably lead to his greatest weakness, unless he 
learns to temper his reactions to other's manipulations.

~Margaret, wondering when people will realize seeing is not 
believing, believing is seeing.