Did DD Know that Harry Would Need Glasses?

[allison_m_otto]

No: HPFGUIDX 129447

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, elfundeb <elfundeb at g...> wrote:
While Harry's glasses improve
> his ordinary vision, I think he is vulnerable *because* he wears
> glasses.  I think his eyes harbor a power that Harry will be able to
> use against Voldemort, but the glasses block that power.  (Yeah, so
> that means that somewhere in the final battle, Harry's glasses will
be knocked off, unlocking the means of defeating Voldemort. . . .)

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While I'm having trouble coming up with a
> clever theory as to the nature of the power I think is concealed
> behind Harry's glasses (it's obviously not something so mundane as
> Legilimency), logically it would involve inner sight.  Too often our
> ability to truly "see" (i.e., to understand) is obscured by the
sights that demand our attention.  Taking away Harry's temporal vision
(by removing his glasses) might allow his magical vision to take
center stage.
> 

Clever.  Although I think it's also possible that it's the reverse,
i.e. that Harry's glasses have been protecting him from magic in some
way.  We know, for example, that those who saw the basilisk's eyes
through a lens (Colin with his camera, Justin through the "lens" of
NHN) were only petrified and not killed, just like those who only saw
the reflection in water or a mirror.  We also know that Legilimency,
for those who are less connected than Voldemort and Harry, depends to
a large extent on eye contact.  Perhaps to have the strongest
connection, i.e. for Voldemort to really control Harry rather than
simply possessing him but allowing him to still think as Harry (as in
OotP), Voldemort needs clear eye contact unfiltered by lenses. 
Perhaps his glasses have been protecting the window into his soul from
the strongest magical intrusion, a "death" of his real self (which
would undoubtedly precede the death of his physical self).

Why would it be important for him to have his mother's green eyes
then?  I think the speculation that Lily's eyes had something to do
with the rebounded AK is really interesting.  I also think it is
possible that Debbie's right and his eyes are the key to some sort of
love-related power; however, I would speculate that maybe his glasses
are necessary protection and filter until such time as that power is
fully realized, otherwise Voldemort could just get into his mind and
trump the power.

-Allison (been gone for a while, but have now finished law school and
have time for more important things, like HP)