AAAARGH!

[flying_stag]

So I went up to the Infirmary today to have my glasses checked. I got the worst news I can imagine. Apparently, I need reading glasses. Reading glasses. Seriously? I'm sixteen bloody years old, not sixty. I am not getting reading glasses. Can you imagine me, walking around with bloody glasses on a bloody chain around my neck? Not on my life

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[shabby_marauder]

I think it would be rather quaint

[flying_stag]

Quaint my arse. I'm not having reading glasses. I'm not having old person chain around my neck because I'm not old.

[shabby_marauder]

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Thank you, James, for reaffirming my inner fear that I am indeed an old man. At least my reading glasses don't have a chain (/indignant sniff)

[flying_stag]

At least you don't need glasses all the time, plus reading glasses. It's not so bad if you only need one bloody pair. That's fine. A sixteen year old (or fifteen year old) should only need one pair! Anything else is just wrong!

[shabby_marauder]

Don't let this become an excuse for you to not do your reading, all right? Because if that's the case, I'm sure I can find a charm to turn your glasses into bifocals.

[flying_stag]

Bifocals? What are those?

[shabby_marauder]

Let us break down the word so you can understand in simple terms, Prongs:

Bi = 2
Focal = think focus

bi + focal = two focuses.

Two focals, if you will but focals isn't a word. They're glasses that have one half (or some kind of fraction) of different glasses prescriptions. Such as you look through them normally and they're one prescription, you look down through them at the lower portion and they're another prescription.

[flying_stag]

I've never heard of these before. Are you sure you didn't just make them up?

[shabby_marauder]

My dad wears them. My mum is a muggle, remember? She made him get the.

[flying_stag]

So they're muggle glasses? Do you think they'd work on me?

[shabby_marauder]

You're a human. Human eyes all work the same when it comes to corrective lenses, I would think,

[flying_stag]

Would I be able to go to a muggle infirmary? I mean, would they ask a lot of questions about why I hadn't been before and that kind of stuff?

[shabby_marauder]

Well, I mean... you could. They wouldn't ask much--they might inquire about things like 'insurance' and you'll have to pay with muggle money but...

You could just ask the nurse for bifocals instead? Or bring up the concept to her and see what she says. You'll have to describe it though. Maybe I should draw you a diagram to make sure you don't mess up on any of it...

[flying_stag]

It sounds easier to just go to a muggle infirmary. I mean, if she knew about bifocals, wouldn't she have suggested them? So they'd be totally new to her and I really don't fancy being an experiment.

[shabby_marauder]

I can ask my mum about it if you'd like. I mean... about the insurance thing or what ever. It might be close to a hundred pounds, but I think they do money conversion at Gringotts, don't they? You could do it over Holiday.

[flying_stag]

You think your mum could take me? My parents can navigate muggle money and all, but I think this might be a touch beyond their scope. I mean, it wouldn't be too much of an imposition, would it?