  The discovery of two UV-bright galaxy candidates at $z\sim 13$, HD1 and HD2,
laid the foundation for a new race to study the early Universe. Previous
investigations suggested that they are either powered by a supermassive black
hole or by an extreme, transient burst of star formation. Given their uncertain
nature, we investigate whether these sources could be lensed by a hitherto
undetected, faint foreground galaxy. We find that at the current limiting
magnitude with which HD1 and HD2 were imaged, there is only a $7.39\%$
probability they are strongly lensed by spherical deflectors and that the
hypothetical lensing galaxy was too faint to be detected. Meanwhile, with the
limiting magnitudes of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST), the theoretical probability would drop precipitously to
$0.058\%$ and $0.0012\%$, respectively. We further find it unlikely that the
luminosities of both sources can be accounted for by lensing that produces a
single, resolved image with sufficiently high magnification. Alternatively, in
the unlikely event that their brightness results from lensing by an elliptical
isothermal galaxy, there is a $30.9 \%$ probability that the lensing galaxy is
too faint to be observable at the current limiting magnitude. Future HST (JWST)
imaging will drop this probability to $0.245 \%$ ($0.0025 \%$). In summary,
while deep imaging with HST and JWST is required to discard the lensing
hypothesis entirely, it is unlikely that the exceptional luminosity of the two
$z \sim 13$ sources can be accounted for by gravitational lensing.
