Mark Evans

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86106

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> Carol wrote:
> > Clearly Lily's
> > muggle father (and I think Mark Evans's muggle father as well) had
> > some recent squib ancestors who in turn must have had witch/wizard
> > ancestors. 
> <Snip>
> > Lily's mother seems to have been an ordinary muggle. 
> 
> 
> Pip!Squeak:
> 
> Not clear to me.
> 
> Firstly, there is no evidence apart from a coincidence of surnames 
> that Mark Evans is related to Harry Potter. My local phonebook has 
> an entire large page of Evans's. It's a very common surname.
> 
Carol:
We've already covered this topic and I've presented my reasons for
thinking that the name Evans, Mark's age (the right age to go to
Hogwarts next year), and his being in the same neighborhood as Harry
all point to his being important in the next book--another muggle-born
wizard who happens to be related to Harry and may even share his green
eyes. I don't want to recycle old arguments but I can provide links if
you want them.

Pip Squeak:
> Secondly, if magic is due to a recessive gene (rather than a 
> dominant gene), *both* of Lily's parents must have carried the 
> gene.  
> 

Carol:
Exactly. If you read my post again, you'll see that I rejected this
theory and concluded that wizard genetics may work differently from
genetics in the RW. If Mark turns out to be a muggle-born wizard
distantly related to Harry on his mother's side, we'll know that the
magic comes through the Evans (paternal) line for both of them. That
suggests that any squibs are in that line and that the female line is
 "pure" muggle (any squibs were so far back that they've been
forgotten). It's possible that muggle-born wizards appear when TWO
lines of squibs-turned muggle join and produce children. But it seems
like too much of a coincidence that both Lily's parents and Mark's
parents would produce such children. So I'm back to my theory of a
squib great grandfather for Lily being the squib great great
grandfather for Mark--and the recessive gene theory wouldn't explain
that so I rejected it.

BTW, my great great (ad infinitum) grandmother, Martha Carrier, was
hanged at the Salem Witch Trials. I'm pretty sure, nonetheless, that
I'm a muggle, not a squib or a muggle-born witch who hasn't yet
discovered her powers. Butf anyone wants to credit the occasional
madness in my posts to my genetic heritage from old Martha, you have
my blessing. ;-)

Carol