Glasses

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 95355

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, liz <liz at s...> wrote: ...Perhaps 
his vulnerability is as simple as yours and anyone else who wears 
glasses - he can't see very well without them. Glasses are certainly 
a fairly obvious clue that a person has poor eyesight... it just 
really struck me that the most obvious vulnerability the clue of 
glasses points to is blindness/poor vision, and that this has been a 
small theme in the series.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

It just *can't* be that simple! It's got to be about why you see what 
it is that you see and when you see it and like that.

Consider other quirks that go with being "four-eyed":
one, your glasses get very dirty before you notice that your vision 
is impaired (usually someone else has to bring it to your attention); 
two, people who have always been nearsighted often can't/don't hear 
well without their glasses (maybe because we can't distinguish 
conversation from background noise); three, when we wear contacts, we 
smack ourselves in the face pushing up nonexistent glasses; four, 
with maturity (okay, this takes thirty Muggle years, but in the WW, 
who knows?) we need to remove our glasses to see really close. Right 
now I'm wearing my computer-distance glasses and my bifocals are 
hanging from a chain around my neck, but I still have to read small 
print with the naked eye.

It gives me the willies when I see dead four-eyed persons laid out 
without their glasses, and strange comfort when, as is more and more 
common, the departed have their glasses on their face as often as 
they have their rosaries in their hands.

Then there's the movie cliche of the prim secretary who whips off her 
glasses and turns into a torrid temptress...

Point being, there's a lot of metaphor, allusion, parallel, reference 
and just random *stuff* involved in the wearing of glasses such that 
it's a total waste of ink to invest so much in a character's glasses 
if he simply doesn't see well.

--JDR