Timeline for Why did the Dursleys give Harry glasses?
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| Feb 23, 2016 at 2:56 | comment | added | Broken_Window | @DRSDavidSoft Thanks! :D | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 2:55 | comment | added | Broken_Window | @Ellesedil I didn't notice that. I thought aunt Petunia was in charge of house chores, and having Harry suffering from neglect more than direct abuse. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 2:54 | comment | added | Broken_Window | @DarrelHoffman good point! | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 21:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/701882750601732101 | ||
| Feb 22, 2016 at 20:43 | comment | added | David Refoua | I loved your theory. You should definitely work on writing HP backstory fanfictions! :p | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 17:51 | comment | added | Ellesedil | Keep in mind, the Dursleys also wanted Harry to do a (large) share of chores around the house. Can't really do that too well if you can't see well. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 14:19 | vote | accept | Broken_Window | ||
| Feb 21, 2016 at 20:14 | comment | added | Mike Scott | @JasonBaker Yes, children got free glasses (in a narrow range of ugly designs) in the 1980s. | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 18:42 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Brindha I just had a vision of a plastic-glove-clad Aunt Petunia slow-motion dive-bombing across the room to stop a rogue omelette from hurling itself against a wall, staining it with yellow. | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 17:24 | comment | added | Brindha | Harry had really bad eyesight. Maybe he flipped omelets and pancakes onto the walls. Necessity over monstrosity. | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | They also provided him with food and clothing. Probably grudgingly, but still. They're negligent guardians and generally horrible people, but they're not monsters. | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 12:46 | history | edited | Mithical | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2016 at 12:09 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 125 | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 11:30 | answer | added | January First-of-May | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 5:59 | answer | added | Dawny33 | timeline score: 5 | |
| S Feb 21, 2016 at 5:10 | history | suggested | Ralph J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Corrected typo: "closed" to "closet" plus minor stuff to get 6 characters
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| Feb 21, 2016 at 2:45 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I can’t speak for the UK, but in 1980s Scandinavia (with a healthcare system quite similar to the NHS), annual health checkups were carried out by the school nurse during regular school days as a matter of routine. These checkups included measuring and weighing, as well as testing both your eyesight and your hearing. If anything that required treatment was discovered, the parents of the student in question would be called in for a mandatory meeting on how to proceed through their own physician. | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 1:50 | comment | added | Jason Baker | Yeah, that was my point. In fact, that's perfectly within character for the Dursleys: when pressed into making a healthcare decision for the child they hate, take the route that costs them nothing | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 1:48 | comment | added | Broken_Window | @JasonBaker if glasses were subsidized in 1980s, the Dursleys had no reasons for not giving Harry the glases he needed, and also avoided getting into problems with the school. | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 1:48 | history | edited | Jason Baker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited title to make it more clear this isn't a duplicate, and did some minor copy editing in the body
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| Feb 21, 2016 at 1:46 | comment | added | Jason Baker | Today the UK's healthcare system provides free vision tests, and subsidized glasses purchases, for minors. Not sure if that was the case in the 1980s, though | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 1:37 | comment | added | Broken_Window | @Himarm I didn't know that. In Perú you get your vision checked when someone notices something is wrong or when the institution decides it is time for a medical examination | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 1:36 | comment | added | Himarm | in the U.S. we got vision checks every year in grade school K-5th. something similar may happen in the U.K. as well. so your theory is probably right. | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 1:34 | history | asked | Broken_Window | CC BY-SA 3.0 |