Mark Evans

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84937

Chiara wrote:
<snip> 
> 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


I don't think Mark's father (who had to be alive at the time Harry
went to the Dursley's) was Petunia's brother or Dumbledore could not
have considered Petunia to be Harry's only living relative. His blood
would have been as suitable as Petunia's for the charm that protects
Harry as long as he's in a blood relative's home. The relationship, as
I said in a previous post, has to be sufficiently distant for DD to be
unaware of it, and that branch of the Evans family has to have been
nonmagical for several generations for DD to be unaware of it. I think
it's more likely that Mark's father is Lily and Petunia's cousin than
their brother, which would make Mark and Harry second cousins. (I also
think that Mark, like Harry at age ten, has no idea that he's a wizard
or he wouldn't let Dudley and his gang beat him up. Enter the owl with
a letter from Hogwarts. . . .)

Carol