If wizards and witches have so many powers in books, why can't they fix their eyesight?

Perhaps the glasses have special powers or meaning.

Smoke gets in their eyes

I dont know.

Glasses tend to make folks look smarter so that is probably why they wear them. Don't you think?

They look so much cuter with spectacles!

The glasses are primarily a fashion statement. However, I appreciate your skepticism.

could be--never thought of that!

What a deep question! I never thought of that before. Maybe they are just making a fashion statement?

I have no idea.

Because they're books and it's not very important for the plot?

They forgot

Maybe wizards are allergic to Retinox 5.

yes, of course they could, but the glasses are vital to the magic.

I've never thought about this. Interesting... Glasses don't exist, to my knowledge, in the world of Shannara, so eyesight must not be a problem in that fantasy world.

Good question. If it wasn't so late and I wasn't so tired I'd come up with something witty (I think so anyway)

For aesthetic / illustrative purposes, nope!
I'd rather see cute witches and wizards!

You got me! Maybe it's just for the look.

ah, I understans Pom's reply now...

I always wondered why Gandalf didn't just majic up a few T34 Soviet tanks and some ground attack aircraft with tactical nuclear weapons that would have sorted out those orcs!!

this is a good question and survey!! I like it.

Well, they're working on that, see, all they know at this point is "Oculus Repairus" to fix the broken glasses. That's in the advance stages that they can fix actual eyesight. As for Dumbledore, he'd look funny without glasses and he knows this, so they are actually just glass lenses

You do have to admit though, glasses on certain people give them a really cute/sexy sophisticated look.

I agree! This one was a hit!

Yes, yes I do!

I didn't even realize we had a smiley with glasses otherwise I would have used it myself

Its all about personality and self-perception I guess. You can't really change an integral part of yourself or I imagine the magic wouldn't work. (hark at me theorising on magic working).

I've wondered about that one myself. In fact, when Hermoine fixes Harry's glasses in the first book you would think he would have remember the spell so that he could have fixed them when they subsequently got broken, but Hermoine ends up fixing them again. Maybe there are just some things that wizards and witches feel fit to leave alone such as curing vision problems,

You can't fix EVERYthing. If they could, if they had so much powers, they would ressurect Harry Potter's parents.

because the boss-witch, the most powerfull and non-challengable, put a permanent curse on them, as a means of keeping them in line and remining them of who the boss is.

Because it's a book, and the glasses make Harry adorable!

The glasses are pretty cute. I do suspect the basic concept in Harry Potter is that even wizards have limited power. Otherwise they'd just change their muggle-born parents into full-blood wizards, or fix their vision or Quidditch skills, or resurrect people like Voldemort, and that would blow the whole plot line!

Ha ha! Good question!

A think needing glasses is a prerequisite to becoming a wizard or witch.

My grandmother's glasses had special powers. From anywhere in the house she could spy me climbing on the kitchen counters looking for goodies.

sometimes we wonder how our parents or grandparents always seemed to know what we were up to.

I think my cousin and I earned her distrust.

we (me and my cousins) were a mess. We did a lot of stuff that to this day there is so much that they don't know we did.

My cousin never got in trouble, but I did on a regular basis.

Oh I guess you were like me a terror on wheels or heels. HEEHEE

Actually, I was the unwitting victim of my cousin's diabolical nature. Although after awhile I began to have my own ideas.

we do learn don't we?

Heee...

cant expect them to do everything, where were the eye doctors?

Good point. I haven't a clue as to why they cannot fix their eyesight. It ranks right up there with "If a woman were stranded on a dessert island for 6 weeks, what would she do for 'that time of the month'".

They wear glasses so they can pretend they don't have X-ray eyes, or laser sight, or... something. To make their eyes look like they're not actually purple (witches espec.)

I have been wondering this VERY thing!

There power is shorting out somewhere.