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What would happen if you looked at a Basilisk's eyes through someone else's glasses?

JK Rowling explained in an interview that glasses (like Harry's or Myrtle's) don't protect against the full effect of a Basilisk's eyes like a reflection does. That makes sense. When a person is wearing glasses he or she actually needs, the glasses don't distort vision - they improve it.

But what if you'd borrowed a friend's glasses and didn't need them? They'd distort your vision. Would that mean you'd be Petrified instead of killed?
 Flickerflame posted over a year ago
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Bellatrix666 said:
I think so. A window would certainly prevent you from being killed, so i think that glasses would do it too. (I'm not sure)
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A window? I hadn't thought of that one.
Flickerflame posted over a year ago
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Well, I'm not sure, but I've always imagined that
Bellatrix666 posted over a year ago
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It does make sense.
Flickerflame posted over a year ago
GabsSaw said:
Obviously you would be petrified, since you're not actually looking at the monster. Unless you are. In which case you would be as dead as Moaning Myrtle!
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I apologize if none of this makes any sense to anyone else. After all, it is exactly 11:52 where I am!
GabsSaw posted over a year ago
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*11:52 P.M.
GabsSaw posted over a year ago
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So the person is either petrified or killed? I was asking which of those would happen!
Flickerflame posted over a year ago
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I know. I just had two different answers for the same question! In reading it though, I find that it makes me sound as though I was high on firewhiskey!
GabsSaw posted over a year ago
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