Eye Damage

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 158436

---  "Jamie Figiel" <jsfigiel at ...> wrote:
>
> Help! I need an answer to a question for a contest at 
> my daughter's school and I can't find it anywhere. 
>
> The question is: 
> 'Who suffered eye  damage from opening a cursed chest?' 
>
> I figured if anyone would know it  would be you guys. 
> Thanks in advance. 
> 
> Jamie F.
>

bboyminn:

Personally, I think either you don't really understand the
question, or the person asking the question is in error.

There have been /chests/ in the books, enchanted chest, but
I don't recall any cursed chests, and I don't recall anyone
being injured by one. Now I suppose it could be someone from
the Chocolate Frog or other Wizard Trading Cards, but that 
would be an extremely obscure question.

Now if the question were actually something like -

Name a person who suffered eye damage and who owned a cursed
chest?

Then the answer would be Moody, but still the question, even
rephrased in this form, is in error because Moody's trunk 
wasn't cursed, it was enchanted. Enchanted refers to the 
application of general magic; Cursed refer to the application
of uniformly negative magic. Moody had a magical enchanted 
trunk but it was not cursed.

Based on the way the question is phrased, I don't think
anyone in the books fits. 

Though, if you find the answer, please let us know.

PS: Hermione was punched by a magic trick telescope.

Steve/bboyminn