[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's Eyesight - basilisk protection?

[Sarah]

No: HPFGUIDX 91532

Carol:

> Glasses didn't protect Moaning Myrtle from the basilisk.

Sarah:

She had been crying.  If I was in the bathroom stall crying, I would remove
my glasses, the better to bury my face in my hands and rub at my eyes.

I have no explanation as to why her ghost, then, would be wearing glasses.
It is interesting to note though, that the reason she was in the toilet
crying in the first place is her glasses.  (Well, Olive Hornby teasing her
about them.)  She mentions the glasses-teasing not once, but twice in the
space of her two-paragraph speech explaining to Harry how she died.

Sarah