New Eye Theorem

[Chuck]

No: HPFGUIDX 60091

We all know the presumed importance of Harry's green eyes.  Even JKR 
acknowledged such in a Beeb (BBC) interview.  Well, I was skimming 
the books again and I noticed the following coincidence:

In TSS, Hagrid states (paperback p. 47), "...yeh've got yer mom's 
eyes."

In PoA, Dumbledore states (paperback p. 427), "You look 
extraordinarily like James.  Except for the eyes... you have your 
mother's eyes."

That got me thinking.  We've also seen that Switching Spells can be 
used to switch parts of animals with parts of other animals.

We've also seen that there was something about Lily that wasn't 
important to Voldy.  He told Lily to get out of the way so he could 
kill Harry (p. 239) so Lily either had something that prevented Voldy 
from killing her or she wasn't important.

What if she had a protection and that it was her eyes?

We've seen JKR make seeming jokes about body parts that turn out to 
be true.  In GoF, Voldy tells Wormy that many wizards would "give 
their right hand" to help him (chap 1, page unknown).  At the end of 
the book, Wormy cuts off his right hand to help Voldy.

JKR may literally mean that Harry has his mom's eyes.

Ten bucks says Lily switched eyes with Harry.

Chuck