Glasses

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 95232

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "JoAnna" <pt4ever at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "djrfdh" <djrfdh at y...> wrote:
> > Even more surprising is the fact that the Dursley's even bought 
> > glasses for Harry! I can't imagine them even taking him for an 
eye 
> > exam, much less purchasing him glasses! I mean, afterall, they 
don't 
> > even buy him presents for his birthday or holidays, why, on 
earth, 
> > would they buy him glasses?  Seems to me, they'd be happier if he 
had 
> > to "feel" his way around! 
> > 
> 
> JoAnna:
> I'm blind as a bat without my contacts/glasses!
> 
> As for why the Dursleys bought glasses for Harry - when I was a 
child,
> our public schools had mandatory eye screenings where someone from 
the
> county (state?) would check our vision and alert our parents if we
> needed glasses.

I agree with JoAnna here. Teachers and school nurses would have 
realised that Harry had bad eyesight.

Getting Harry glasses would have been no big deal for the Dursleys 
either. In the UK, glasses are generously subsidised for kids below 
16. Some models were available for free -- I believe Rowling said 
somewhere that she pictured Harry in the kind with large, ugly, cheap 
frames of black plastic. Type "NHS glasses" in your Google window and 
see what comes up.

Alshain, proud of the working European healthcare systems