OoP: Names

[Cohen, Meg]

No: HPFGUIDX 65395

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Professor Granger wrote:

> Anyway, I was reading the OoP for the second time when I came 
across a reference that escaped me the first: 
> "So who've you been beating up tonight?" Harry asked, his grin 
fading.  "Another ten-year-old?  I know you did Mark Evans two nights 
ago -- "
> We know that Lily Potter's maiden name was Evans, as mentioned in 
chapter 28, and known previously through an interview with JKR.

and elizabeth1603 replied:

>Me:

>Don't know if this has been brought up, but I wonder if this Mark 
>Evans will be getting a letter from Hogwarts this summer. Maybe Harry 
>will have a long lost relative to meet next time he boards the 
>Hogwarts Express.

Now me:
The only problem with this is that Amelia Bones says during Harry's
disciplinary hearing that the MoM has no record of any witches or wizards
living in Little Whinging other than Harry.  I suppose he could be a Muggle
born wizard (must run in the Evans family ;) ), but I thought I also read
somewhere that someone (MoM?  Hogwarts?  Not sure, and I may be making this
up) knows whenever a witch or wizard is born.

But it is curious, isn't?  And JKR doesn't seem to do anything lightly.....


Meg Cohen