Harry's glasses (was Re: Foreshadowing for books 6 & 7- PoA DVD on the way!)

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Diana wrote:
> > After seeing PoA yet again in IMAX last week, I'm now certain 
> > that Harry losing his glasses at the Whomping Willow foreshadows 
> > him losing his glasses at a critical time in book 6 and/or 7.  
> > There's just no other reason for this scene to be in the movie...

Del replies :
> In fact, it's quite bothering that the glasses have not been causing
> more troubles already in the first 5 books. So they prevent him from
> seeing well during a rainy match ? Big deal. I wear glasses too, 
> and I can tell you that they are much more annoying that just that, 
> in RL.  For one, Harry is lucky they never fell off his nose during 
> one of his acrobatic encounters with LV or any other baddy : 
> falling, jumping, being dragged and carried, and so on, and they 
> never move ??
> And for two, he never has to change them. Lucky boy, that his vision
> should have stabilised as early as 11.
> 
> Del, who wonders why JKR made Harry wear glasses, if they don't 
> cause him any trouble.


SSSusan, addressing Del's final question:
Because the glasses cover his EYES, which are his real point of 
vulnerability, maybe??

Otherwise, why not just get LASIK?  I did, and it's great. :-)

Seriously, though, this was *the* scene which caught my attention on 
the first go-round, in terms of not-canon but possibly giving JKR 
goosebumps.  I think this is important.

Siriusly Snapey Susan