Did DD Know that Harry Would Need Glasses?

[Marilyn Peake]

No: HPFGUIDX 129606

Angie:  
> First, we don't know if Harry would have needed glasses had the 
> AK curse not been performed on him.

> Seems like there is a line from one of the books, as part of the 
> narrative, that says so something like, for nothing was Harry the 
> youngest Quidditch player in a century; he had a knack for seeing 
> things others didn't."  Is that because of his glasses or in spite 
> of them?


Marilyn:
Perhaps J.K. Rowling meant for Harry Potter's sight impairment to 
carry a similar meaning as blindness in ancient Greek literature.  I 
found the following statement regarding the use of blindness in 
Classical Age literature:
"In the literature of the Classical Age, there are sightless 
geniuses - but, their genius is of a special variety. The gods, after 
having punished them with blindness, reward them with extraordinary 
gifts in partial compensation. Though these gifts are almost always 
of a kind that the seeing can also have, the difference lies in that 
when a blind person acquires them, it is on account of his blindness. 
The gods pity him and so they grant him this compensation, grant it 
to him entirely." 
- From: http://www.planetkilmer.com/rr/august2001/valteamo/

Best Wishes,
Marilyn

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