Myrtle's glasses

[Marci]

No: HPFGUIDX 78419

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4" 
<severusbook4 at y...> wrote:
> --- 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.
> > 
> > > 
> > 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
> 
> Snape here:
> 
> The camera in question is a single lense reflex, meaning the image 
> is bounced off a mirror then to the view finder (eye piece), so a 
> mirror saved Creevy (sp?).  Myrtle took the full blast as her 
> glasses did not reflect the image into her eyes.  The reason Cedric 
> survived was that Nick is partialy alive and absorbed some of the 
> dark magic. I believe if you were on one side of a window and a 
> basilisk (sp?) was on the other and you looked at it's eyes, you 
> would be toast.  A clear window bends light, but it may not do 
> anything to dark magic.  A mirror is backed in silver, and silver 
> does have some magical properties, it's use against vampires, 
> werewolves, etc.  So it could be because of the silver used in the 
> mirrors that saved the two girls and Colin.  Sorry for the ramble, 
> my doc said I should be the poster child for adult ADD, and I have 
a 
> hard time staying congruient (sp?).
> 
> Severus "where's my adderall?" Snape

Remove Cedric, insert Justin.  And Nick being 'partially alive'?  I 
thought ghost=totally dead.  But, anywho, it could have been his 
phosporic/protoplasmic ghostly makeup that spared Justin from the 
full blast.

Marci