Mark Evans -- Pattern of clues and context -- More?

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 84962

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
<snip> 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

And the pattern of the prose is right. As mentioned in another post, 
we get a description of Mark Evans, his whole name, and his "cheeky" 
personality. That's a lot for a throwaway character. 

It's also telling that we with a HP-OCD problem have one more piece 
of evidence than the benighted Muggle-tudes out there. JKR said in an 
interview a while back that Lily's maiden name was Evans. In canon, 
this isn't mentioned until the Snape-Pensieve scene, when James is 
writing L.E. and then refers to Lily as "Evans." 

This is the same pattern that JKR uses often in her books, dropping 
in a couple words and laying in the context later, such as (another 
post on this thread also mentioned) Hargrid riding *Sirius Black's* 
motorcycle, and then *2 books later* we find out that SB was at 
Harry's house when L and J were killed and may have been the 
murderer. 

Or that rat (Scabbers) running around for two and a half books before 
he un-animagus-es. And in PS/SS, McGonagall the animagus is 
introduced in the first chapter, just before SB's hog, thus 
introducing the concept. 

Or in Dumbledore's Penseive in GoF, the Lestranges and other people 
being tried by the Wizemagot (or however ya spell that.) This 
introduced a lot of DE's and the whole trial process, which became 
important for HP in OotP when he almost got expelled and 
excommunicated. 

Or the time-turner introduced in PoA that will doubtlessly be 
important later in the MoM, Division of Timelords. (Didn't anybody 
else giggle about the British callbox being the entrance to the MoM?) 

Or polyjuice potion in CoS that HRH used to infiltrate Slytherin, 
that in GoF disguised CrouchJr!Moody. (Favorite line from GoF AmPB, p 
91, at the Quid Cup: "[Crouch Sr.] spoke as though he wanted to leave 
nobody in any doubt that all his ancestors had abided strictly by the 
law." One of his *descendants,* however, was less strict. Hee-hee. 
Snarky.) 

What else fits this pattern? There must be more. 

TK -- Tigerpatronus