Lilly being blind

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 129076

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chys Sage Lattes" 
<yami69hikari at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Casey Robinson 
> <caseyhrobinson at s...> wrote:
> > <rochesteruponmedway at y...> wrote:
> > > What is Lily's big secret?
> > > She was blind.
> > > 
> > In answer to whether or not this could be true,
> > although a wonderful idea, I find three bits in the
> > cannon that refutes it.  
> > 1.  In SS She looks back at Harry through the Mirror
> > of Eresed.
> > 2.  THroughout the ENTIRE series, Harry is constantly
> > told that he has his mother's eyes.  While true that
> > this could be solely the look, it would be really
> > disturbing that people would be telling Harry that he
> > has his blind mothers eyes.
> > 3.  Furthermore, Harry saw his parents looking back at
> > himt hrough numerous photographs.  There has never
> > been mention of sunglasses. 
> > 
> > Now it is possible, I find it highly unlikely, unless
> > of ocurse blindness came at later stages, and the
> > mirror of eresed shows them as they were happiest,
> > etc, etc.  Do remember that harry has seen fragments
> > of his mother, even in the form in which she died, at
> > the end of GoF.  Again, magical world, wierd things
> > occur after death, who knows, but I highly doubt it.
> > 
> > Casey
> 
> 
> Chys:
> 
> Cool. Thanks for finding that! It WAS just a whim. #1 shows what 
> Harry wants most, he wouldn't know to think that she wouldn't be 
that 
> way so if that were the case, it wouldn't matter. Although I do 
agree 
> with you that #2 is disturbing but it wouldn't have that much 
weight 
> on her not actually being blind. Maybe they were just pointing out 
> the fact that he looked like her, and it were something that 
happened 
> to her later towards the end of her life, as I previously 
suggested, 
> then it could be mentioned in that sad sort of way. 
> 
> On another note, you don't have to wear sunglasses if you're blind, 
> it's not a rule. ^_^  Besides maybe they had a potion to fix that 
> blindness, eh? Doesn't mean Harry was born with it.
> 
> All in fun. ^_^
> Chys

I'd never thought of this theory, and when I first started reading 
this post I thought that JKR wouldn't make Lily blind because she 
would see it as a sort of symbolism of turning a blind eye to the bad 
things in the world. But then I thought, it could be symbolism for 
not being racist or biggoted in anyway. Because as she is blind, 
she 'sees' people for who they really are, not what they look like, 
or their background. 

But, I'm probably waaaaayyyy over thinking this lol.

Tamara