Blinded Harry WAS (Re: Harry's glasses and vulnerability)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 121513



> Valky:
> I have been thinking a lot about this topic, it's very interesting.
> I went back through my books with it in mind and found something
> curious, each time Harry faces Voldemort there is some reference to
> blindness nearby.
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> Now I don't know what all this means, but it's all there, black and
> white, clear as ..... blindness?
> 

Finwitch:

Well - anyone heard the saying, love is blind, or justice is blind?
And um - *SEEING* Dementors and who can see them, invisibility 
cloaks, invisible books, thestrals you can see only if you have 
*seen* death, polyjuice potion that makes you look (and sound) like 
someone else... and 'if looks could kill' - well - can, if you're a 
basilisk!

And er, eyes: PS tells as that Dumbledore's eyes are blue and twinkle 
a lot. His eyes only lost their usual light when he left Harry there. 
(why?) Everyone keeps telling how Harry's green eyes are like Lily's. 
Dudley has small, blue and pig-like eyes. But nowhere are eyes 
described in such detail as Ollivander's when Harry enters the wand 
shop. Ollivander's eyes are very *major* part in his description. For 
others, the eyes are either not mentioned at all, or just in passing, 
just one thing about someone's looks.

Also, when Harry was fighting the Imperius curse: Look at his *eyes*, 
you can see it there! I very much doubt he lied about that, but I 
don't think it's very practical-- you don't usually get close enough 
to see the eyes.. ;-)

But - let's not forget ears. Mandrake cry kills if you can hear it 
and the mandrake is an adult. Dumbledore admires music (magic beyond 
all we teach here), and to calm down the 3-headed dog, you must play 
music (and not even be good at it!). And the phoenix song is magical.

Interesting, though... Harry's *touch* was painful to Quirrellmort, 
(and his touch nearly killed Harry). Mandrake cry is fatal to all who 
hear it - (and the leaves make a restorative potion if you were only 
petrified), Basilisk direct look kills - indirect petrifies.

Hmm-mm. We've seen people wearing glasses, but unless Ollivander is 
blind, we have yet to see how a blind person would manage in wizard 
world. Or a deaf one.

Finwitch