[HPforGrownups] the view from Harry's glasses

[An'nai Jiriki]

No: HPFGUIDX 72072

> 
> Me:  The view from Harry's glasses, I love it!  But,
> I have a few
> questions.  Hopefully someone from this deep vat of
> Potter knowledge
> would know the answer.
> 
> 1.  Where did Harry get his glasses from?
> 
>        a.  I don't think the Dursley's would buy
> them.
>        b.  Harry has nothing new.  Only Dudley's old
> things.
> 
> 2.  Did DD send the glasses?
> 
>         a.  Could they be James old glasses?
>         b.  Could they be magical glasses?  Handed
> down thru the 
>             Potter's.
> 
> Harry never seems to need to get new ones.  I know
> people keep fixing
> them but, what about changing the 'script?  I have
> to go every few
> years, but Harry never seems to need to.
> 
> The memior idea is great... I think Harry's glasses
> are the ones
> telling the story.... Harry has died of old age, a
> few days before. 
> His oldest boy 
> picks up his fathers glasses from the bedside table.
>  He puts them on
> like he used to as a child, smiling with the memory,
>  and he starts
> seeing his fathers life... thru the eyes of his
> fathers glasses?
> 
> I know no cannon.  But, I find the glasses point of
> view fascinating.
> 
> Tj
> 
> 

It's quite possible that the Dursleys did buy him
glasses. If Harry entered public school, like it is
said in the first book (sorry, I don't have it with
me, but I'm referencing the memory of him jumping onto
the school), then it is quite possible for the school
to have required the Dursley's to buy him glasses. 

My elementary school (PA, America) ran eye and ear
exams every year. I don't know how popular that is,
but otherwise a teacher would notice if a student
continually squinted to see the board. Hence, school
says to get him tested and get him glasses. If they
were to have refused, they could have been cited for
child neglect. They would have lost Dudley then to. 

Chris
$0.02


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