Glasses

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> He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose.
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> Harry Potter's wearing of glasses, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)

**Glasses** (also called **eyeglasses** or **spectacles**) are composed of two lenses set inside of a frame. They are worn in front of the eyes in order to correct vision disorders.

## Glasses in the wizarding world

Apart from using spellotape, the charm *Oculus Reparo* (a variation of the Mending Charm) could be used to fix broken spectacles.

Animagi who wore glasses may have had distinctive markings in the same shape as the glasses they wore in human form. The physical location of these markings seemed to depend on the type of animal one's Animagus form took: Minerva McGonagall, a cat Animagus, had markings around the eyes, and ***Rita Skeeter***, a ***beetle*** Animagus, had markings around the antennae.
Wearing glasses would not protect a person from the fatal effect of the Basilisk's stare, because glasses still allowed one's line of vision to connect directly and clearly with the serpent's eyes, unlike looking in a mirror or through a ***camera***.
Spectrespecs were a magical type of spectacles that allowed the wearer to see ***wrackspurts***.
***Goblins*** at Gringotts Wizarding Bank examined precious stones through eyeglasses.

## Known wearers

> Harry, your eyesight really is awful.
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> Hermione Granger commenting on Harry Potter's use of glasses, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

* ***Borgin*** (pince-nez)
* Albus Dumbledore (half-moon)
* ***Filius Flitwick*** (round)
* Minerva McGonagall (square)
* James Potter (round)
* Harry Potter (round)
* ***Sybill Trelawney*** (thick lenses)
* Myrtle Warren (thick lenses)
* Arthur Weasley (horn-rimmed)
* Percy Weasley (horn-rimmed)
* Gringotts Head Goblin

## Behind the scenes

* Harry Potter's glasses in the films were designed specially by William Luff, who has designed eyewear for many major British films and television properties.
* Harry’s glasses on screen had black rims and lenses had been removed by production to make sure the light would not reverberate. Those round spectacles were made specifically for the film and were only painted black if necessary. Most glasses would remain in their aluminium colours as they did not make it in the final cut of the film.
* Hermione Granger fixes Harry Potter's damaged glasses with the spell *Oculus Reparo* in the film versions of both *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* and *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*.
* J. K. Rowling stated in an interview that the reason she gave Harry glasses was that she wore them herself as a child and was fed up with reading books in which the bespectacled character was the "brainy one". She said she wished to read about a hero who wore glasses.
* Peter Pettigrew uses Harry's glasses instead of his blood to revive Voldemort. Once revived, Voldemort humorously returns the glasses to Harry.
* In the film adaptation of *Harry Potter and the Ordder Of The Phoenix*, during Harry's disciplinary hearing, Cornelius Fudge wore what seemed to be reading glasses, despite not wearing glasses at all in the books.
* Those who suffer from nearsightedness also generally suffer a general degradation of vision that requires regular eye exams to make sure that they have the best prescription to correct their vision. As it is unlikely that the Dursleys would take Harry Potter for regular eye exams, he may have suffered something of a degradation in vision being stuck with his original prescription, or his status as a wizard may have prevented him from suffering any further decline in his sight.
* Many wizards and witches wear glasses, so it seems that magic is unable to cure myopia (near-sightedness), hyperopia (far-sightedness), or astigmatism in the same way that ***Muggle*** laser surgery can. ***~~Pottermore~~*** confirms that healing of non-magical illnesses is simple, suggesting that many wizards simply choose not to have their eyesight corrected. A lost eye can be replaced with a magical prosthesis like that of ***"Mad-Eye" Moody***, which not only restored vision, but had advantages over a normal eye.
* In the films, the use of glasses on characters is heavily toned down.
	+ Michael Gambon's Dumbledore is the most obvious one in this case. In *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*, he doesn’t always wear his spectacles; In *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*, he only wears them during the Start-of-Term Feast; in *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*, he only wears them during the Start-of-Term Feast and in two brief shots in his office before his first private lesson with Harry; In both *Deathly Hallows* movies, he doesn't wear them, including when he is in Limbo.
	+ McGonagall is wearing her spectacles in the first and second films only, despite them being a part of the markings when she is in her Animagus form.
	+ Other characters described as bespectacled in the books such as Arthur Weasley, Percy Weasley, Aberforth Dumbledore, Rufus Scrimgeour, Mafalda Hopkirk, or James Potter as a first-year in the *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2* flashbacks are not wearing any in the films.

## Appearances

**The 5D-Shared-Combined Crossovers for An The-Good/Evil-Hybrid Wiki** has 43 images related to ***Glasses***.
* *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film) (First Entire Appearance)
* *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1*
* *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film), Chapter 4 - Flourish And Blotts
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 1 - (Darely Doorstep Delivery)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 16 July, 2005 press conference at Accio Quote!
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 5 - The Diagon Alley
5. ↑ *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 23 - (Mirror Of Erised)
6. ↑ *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 2 - (The Vanishing Glass)
7. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film), Chapter 17 - (The Dueling Club)
8. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film), Chapter 4 - (An The Burrow}
9. ↑ My Glasses and Me - "Who is the Guy Behind Harry Potter's Glasses?"