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Mr. Boy and I are into the sixth chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and it’s becoming obvious that Mr. B. not only identifies with Harry (though he also likes to pretend to be Harry’s sidekick Ron Weasley) but that the identification is serendipitously making the wearing of Mr. B.’s new glasses much more bearable. He only wishes they were round, like HP’s. But round glasses are hard to find and so he settled for the narrow rectangular ones the industry only seems to make these days. He has the glasses because the optometrist confirmed a few weeks before Christmas what the school eye test had first found, that he has a slight problem with one eye. It’s called "lazy eye" and the glasses are supposed to correct it. In fact, the doc said he might not have to wear them after age nine. Problem is, Mr. B. insists he can’t see any better with the glasses than without, so having Harry Potter as a glasses-wearing model is a godsend.