Myrtle's glasses, Basilisk, Camera, Ghost

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 78555

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dave" <impherring13 at y...> 
wrote:
> > ... 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.
> > 
> >    -SD
> 
> First, let's ask a fundamental question about Basilisks. 
> 
> Exactly how does a Basilisk kill you with a look?
> 
SNIP of excellent CoS petrifications synopsis by---
> bboy_mn

SO, here I am just reading this post and WHAM!--it slams into me like a 
bludger.  Maybe this is 'duh!' for most people but, it just struck me the 
implications of the Basilisk being able to kill with a look--with its *eyes*.  

Of course we've been bombarded with descriptions to people's eyes and hit 
repeatedly over the head with the likeness between Lily's and Harry's eyes.  

But we also have the JKR chat quote where someone asks if there is some 
magic that can done by people only with their eyes of with certain eyes (can't 
find the chat now, sorry).  

The Basilisk's ability to kill with looking another person/thing in the eye is 
certainly an example of this.  Also, it foreshadowed a type of magic that is 
done by looking another in the eye--such as Legilimency.  

Perhaps, I am thinking, that Voldemort, with all his snake-like characteristics, 
may have been trying to morph himself into a creature with the power to kill 
with intent and a deadly look-- no wand or AK needed.  

If wands, imbued with cores of magical creatures, are 'amplifiers' of sorts that 
concentrate and focus magic, than I can see where the properties and powers 
of magical creatures may be harnessable and perhaps able to be 
assimililated into a wizard's powers.  

Obviously, if Volde tried to achieve this, he hasn't done it yet.

However, I have to wonder about Harry.  Why?  How?  In the CoS, he was 
poisened with the Basilisk venom.  It would have killed him if he not been 
saved with tears from Fawkes--a Phoenix.  Mixing Phoenix tears (from an 
immortal creature) and Basilisk venom (deadly poisen from a creature that 
can kill with a look into its eyes), may indeed, be an odd mix to have in one's 
blood.  

I can see Harry becoming skilled at Legilimency (it seems it may be easy to 
master after learning Occlumency, which he will probably soon learn to 
master) (and we also have seen Harry with several 'intuitive' hunches) and 
then being able to look into one's eyes (Voldemort's?  No, maybe bellatrix--I 
still say Harry has do V in with some love and understnading--but Bella can 
get the axe) and his/her soul (if she has one) and see her worth as a person 
worthy of living, if when Harry can see only evil, and begins to wish/want the 
person dead, then the intent in his mind and heart flow through his eyes and 
the person drops dead.  

My brainstormed theory for the day.

Arya