Mark Evans

[chiara.fantoni at cec.eu.int]

No: HPFGUIDX 84917

urghiggi wrote:

>One other "out" I've seen proposed, that ostensibly would allow Mark to be 
>related AND allow Ddore's credibility to remain intact, is the interp that 
>Petunia WAS the only living relative at the time Harry was turned over to
the 
>Durselys and that Mark was born later (which of course he would have to 
>have been, given his age). But for Mark to be a living relative, then one
of his 
>PARENTS, who surely were around at that time, also has to be a living 
>relative, which blows up the argument....

>Then again -- Dudley Dursley was born a month before Harry, apparently, 
>and so at the time of the hand-off he, too, was a "living relative" of Lily
Potter 
>(unless he's Vernon's love child with someone other than Petunia). Now --
did 
>the fact that Ddore didn't mention this mean anything (like, Ddore's really
not 
>to be trusted to be accurate/truthful)? Or did it just mean that, as an
infant, 
>Dudley certainly couldn't be a potential party for useful employment of the

>blood-charm, and thus wasn't worth mentioning? But if that's the case, are 
>there OTHER Evanses out there who weren't suitable, and thus not 
>mentioned? In which case, Mark could certainly be related somehow.

We know from canon that WW kids get their family name from their father,
just like in Western RL (otherwise it would be Harry Evans, not Harry
Potter, and it's Arthur Weasley and Molly what?)

There is a conspicuous exception in Iceland, but here we are talking about
UK.

Is there any canon stating that the only sibling Lily had is Petunia?

What if they had a brother as well?

His children would be called Evans, wouldn't they?

Mark is ten at the beginning of OOP, so not only he is younger than Harry,
but he was also born after James and Lily were killed, he hadn't even been
conceived, unless witches have a longer pregnancy than normal women (they
are not elephants, or are they?)

So if we accept the theory that "only living relative" might be referring to
the moment Harry is made an orphan, Mark is still to come into play, his
father might have conceived him and then died for whatever reason, and his
mother might have died in the intervening years.

Any thoughts?

Chiara