Harry's Eyesight - basilisk protection?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91518

> Carri :
> So, would his eyeglasses have protected him from the basilisk 
> stare?  Since CofS shows only petrification occuring when seeing the 
> eyes through something else, for example, water on the floor, mirror 
> (which are reflections) and a ghost and Collin's CAMERA - not 
> reflections.  Looking THROUGH the lense of the camera protected 
> Colin from death, so could eyeglasses be a form of protection in 
> some future appearance of another basilisk?
> ~CarriLynne


Glasses didn't protect Moaning Myrtle from the basilisk. She wasn't
just petrified; she died. And presumably, since her ghost wears
glasses and she was coming out of a stall to investigate the presence
of a boy in the girls' restroom, she was wearing her glasses when she
died. Maybe Harry's glasses are special in some way but I doubt it
since he acquired them from Muggles.

Carol