Mark Evans

[queen_astrofiammante]

No: HPFGUIDX 85038

> Carol, who is wondering why you don't want little Mark to be 
important and how you can discount his age and name, which seem to me 
to be obvious clues to his significance.

Now me:

Carol, it's not that I don't want him to be important (which I think 
I already pointed out), just there seem to me to be so many huge ifs 
and buts involved in making him important.

How he could possibly be Harry's sixth cousin twice removed, how the 
Ministry of Magic could have overlooked a wizard birth in an area as 
significant as Little Whinging, how two squibs, which seem to be 
quite rare creatures could have met and married.

These things can all be explained away. But when does the point come 
when you put so much effort into the process of explaining them that 
it is simply more logical to accept the alternative - that Mark Evans 
could be (gasp) a red herring, or even an accident?

I have no agenda - I just disagree with you. In a perfectly friendly 
manner, naturally. I ask you to accept that I think that it's 
entirely possible that we may never hear about him again, and I 
willingly accept that you confidently expect to meet him at the next 
Hogwarts sorting ceremony. 

One of my favourite ideas in the whole of Harry Potter fandom is 
mightily unpopular on sections of this list - the Perseus Evans 
anagram, a problem that presents all the same difficulties with 
wizarding families producing offspring that are notionally muggle-
born and also that are possible purebloods. I'm not asking you to 
agree with me about that - you probably think it's a crazy idea.

But wouldn't life be boring if we all agreed with each other? 
Imagine, if you will, a kind of Ministry of Magic-approved list of 
what mad theories each of us can sign up to? No, let chaos reign.

With all good wishes to you and little Mark ;- ))

Astrofiammante