Mark Evans - evans, Evans, EVANS

[dorapye]

No: HPFGUIDX 86394

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Hello - ooh! Something went really wrong with my first attempt at 
posting, so Carol, I do apologise that my post had your name 
attached to it as sender; don't quite know how that happened. Plus 
it chopped out several of my sentences which left a curiously 
suspended bracket and some nonsense (!). Cross fingers it works 
better this time.

To respond to your reply, Carol

Carol wrote:
>> Assuming that Mark is Harry's relative, he wasn't born yet when
> Harry's parents died and his father might even have been an 
unmarried
> boy of 18 or so at that time, so he couldn't have offered Harry the
> home he needed. More important, Mark's father can only be at most 
his
> mother's cousin; Dumbledore needed a closer relationship and 
Petunia
> was the only available candidate. And since Mark's parents are 
pretty
> clearly Muggles, it's very likely that Dumbledore was unaware of 
their
> existence. As far as he knew, Petunia really was Harry's only 
living
> relative. The WW has a hard enough time keeping track of squibs; it
> would be miraculous if they knew every wizards' muggle second 
cousin.
> 
> Now dorapye:

Yes, I understand Mark'd have to be something like second cousin at 
the very most, but I just wondered if Harry would rationalise this 
to explain DD placing him with Petunia, obviously his closest living 
relative, or if he would let his resentment for having to live with 
the Dursleys drive a bitter wedge between himself and DD. He 
certainly feels this very strongly at the beginning of OotP and even 
though DD has now explained to him why he must return to them every 
summer, I'm sure Harry is still feeling pretty hard done by, stuck 
with the Dursleys again this summer (and part of the next). If he 
allows himself to imagine that he *could* have been placed with a 
loving relative, even though DD has explained to him that he needed 
to use a close relative to seal the charm and therefore the blood 
ties to Mark's family will not be close enough, will Harry be ready 
to accept that explanation? Or will anger and frustration at the 
choices that have been made for him (by DD and also by LV) prevent 
him examining DD's choice rationally? 

I was just trying to tie Harry's possible response to finding he has 
other (magical) family members to the Harry we see emerging in OotP: 
a typically moody and angry adolescent, resenting the authority of 
adults and being treated 'like a child', though still some way short 
of ready to assume adult responsibilities.

Not saying I think Harry will still be 'raging' at being in Privet 
Drive in Book 6 (maybe the loss of Sirius will help him gain a new 
perspective on his situation) just that, if Mark Evans is a relative 
of Harry's in the next book (likely, I think), it *could* introduce 
some interesting tensions in Harry's relationship with DD.

For the record, Carol, I'm liking your theories, and your arguments 
with Kneasy, very much.

dorapye