Myrtle's glasses

[Marci]

No: HPFGUIDX 78405

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> "Dave" wrote:
> 
> > Basically, Myrtle shouldn't have died, she should only have
> > been petrified because of her glasses just as the camera and Nick
> > saved the other two.
> 
> Colin : I don't know anything about how cameras are made, but I 
guess 
> it could be a device in which most of the light received goes to 
the 
> film, and only a small part of it to the viewer. It would then make 
> sense that Colin didn't die. Of course, if his camera was one of 
> those where the pre-view window is just a window, then it doesn't 
> work.
> 
> Justin : Nick took the full blast of the deadly gaze, Justin 
received 
> only what went through Nick.
> 
> Hermione and Penelope : the mirror reflected back to them only a 
part 
> of the energy coming from the Basilisk's eyes.
> 
> Myrtle : glasses do reflect and deflect light a bit, but really not 
> much, so that most of the energy went directly into Myrtle's eyes.
> 
> Del

My turn:

Colin, wizard camera?  Did his camera give off the same smoke as the 
photographer's in Flourish & Blotts?  I remember him saying something 
about developing the film in a certain potion.  That is what makes 
the photographs move.

So, about Myrtle.  People who wear glasses, when they cry, don't they 
take them off?  Simple answer.  She was crying, heard a voice, stuck 
her head out of the stall and didn't put her glasses on quick enough.

Maybe??

Marci