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

[Elihu Falk]

No: HPFGUIDX 91545



 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?

Carrol:
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.

Elihu:
I have 2 possible answers:

1)  Maybe the bassilisk's glare does work through glass, but not plastic.

2)  Some people wear glasses to see thing near them - maybe that was why Myrtle wore them? In this case, she would have removed them in order to see what was up.

Elihu