[HPforGrownups] Myrtle's glasses

[Ephrem B]

No: HPFGUIDX 78443

Dave <impherring13 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Sorry if this has been said, but yahoo has that notorious search
engine  and I can't find anything on it.  If you would have seen the
basilisk through a window? No.  Just as Justin Finch-Fletchley didn't
die looking straight through Nearly Headless Nick, and Collin Creevey
didn't die when he saw it through the camera lens.  Why then was
Myrtle killed when viewing the basilisk straight through her glasses
(CS 16)?  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.
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There's two possibilities to why Myrtle's glasses didn't save her.  First, unlike the silvery mist of ghost and the multiple lens of a camera, glasses may not distort the basilisk's stare enough to protect the wearer.  Second, when Myrtle died she was in the girl's bathroom crying.  I can say a majority of people who wear glasses will take them off if they're crying for a long period of time so they can wipe their eyes more frequently and easily.  So it's a possibility that she wasn't wearing them when she was attacked.