Harry's glasses: Protection?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 115409


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...>
wrote:

> Meri: Harry's just an average kid. He's got glasses, and to me that 
> makes him far more average. We didn't get to see Harry at all in 
> primary school, but again IIRC Harry's thoughts at the end of 
> Chapter 2 in SS tell us that he had no friends at school because no 
> one wanted to disagree with Dudley's gang and befriend that weird 
> Harry Potter with his baggy clothes and glasses.

Annemehr:
Just looked it up, and it says "broken glasses."  I think it's the
"broken" part that's important, it goes with the baggy clothes.  He's
not-cared-for.  I think kids have an innate aversion to uncared for
kids -- "what's wrong with you that your parents (guardians) don't
even dress you properly?"  Now that his glasses are fixed, I figure
that takes him from sub-average (in primary school) up to average (at
Hogwarts, apart from that little complication of the connection with
ol' Voldy-thingy).  He'll never be Superman or Spiderman, 'cause he'll
always need *his* glasses.


> Meri - who over the last sixteen years has gotten to love my 
> glasses, so much so that I won't get contacts...I don't look right 
> without me specs and neither does Harry!

Annemehr,
who got her glasses and braces in the early '70s and was never teased
about either of them, because both were so common among average
kids...and who has little use for Lois Lane because she could never
really see Clark Kent...