small thought on Mark Evans

[ajlboston]

No: HPFGUIDX 77959

So I was pondering the recent thread that the thin thestral-seeing 
Slytherin boy could be Snape's son, and I wondered what name he would 
have, and remembered the Severus Snape =Perseus Evans Anagram 
threads, and thought of Mark Evans whom Dudley had beaten up, and 
recalled that people were theorizing that Mark might be a cousin 
related to Lily and show up at Hogwarts next year when he turns 11.  
But I thought, well if he is a magical child, why would he get so 
beaten up by Dudley-- surely in that case he would have displayed 
some magical surprise defense, similar to Harry's ending up on the 
roof when he was running from Dudley as a child.  (Getting pulverized 
by the buff junior heavyweight champ teenager surely would qualify as 
a reason for his hidden abilities to kick in, would it not?) 

(Then I wondered why Harry doesn't get cited by the MoM for the jolt 
that shocked Vernon when he was strangling Harry in OOP Chap 1, which 
some people here thought was part of the magical protection on Privet 
Drive...)

--A.J.