Mark Evans

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86140

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:

Carol:
> > 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.
> 

<snip>

Geoff:
True - try a Welsh phone book....

However, as many of have said, JKR's coincidences can often be 
suspect. Can I just refer you back to a longish post (message 85255) 
in which I put togather a lot of the verious bits of evidence which 
just /could/ support the theory.

Geoff