the view from Harry's glasses

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 72073

> 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

Hi.June with more boring factual information about the UK that might 
be relevant.

In the UK, kids under 16 can get glasses for free on the National 
Health Service - provided they are "no frills".

I somehow suspect the Dursley's went this way.  I also suspect it 
may have been a school nurse who picked up that Harry needed them, 
because I can't see the Dursley's even bothering to get his vision 
checked out :-)

June