Myrtle's glasses

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 78408

"Marci" wrote:

> 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.

It would make it nice and simple, for sure. I'd say it depends on how 
much she needed them. I'm severely short-sighted, and I was already 
so at Myrtle's age. I was wearing glasses. Did I take them off when 
crying ? Not necessarily. Would I have left the stall without them 
on ? Never ! Without them, everything is blurred. I would not 
deliberately have gone and talked to anyone without them on, because 
I feel terribly vulnerable without them or my lenses on. Moreover, 
short-sighted as I was, I would not have recognized the Basilisk's 
eyes for eyes, I would just have seen two big yellow thingys.

But does it say whether Myrtle is short- or far-sighted ? If she's 
far-sighted, then all my objections vanish as smoke :-)

Del