[HPforGrownups] Re: questions about HP (Evans?)

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 82383

On 6 Oct 2003 at 16:01, urghiggi wrote:

urghiggi suggested,
> Then again -- Dudley Dursley was born a month before Harry,
> apparently, and so at the time of the hand-off he, too, was a "living
> relative" of Lily Potter (unless he's Vernon's love child with someone
> other than Petunia). Now -- did the fact that Ddore didn't mention
> this mean anything (like, Ddore's really not to be trusted to be
> accurate/truthful)? Or did it just mean that, as an infant, Dudley
> certainly couldn't be a potential party for useful employment of the
> blood-charm, and thus wasn't worth mentioning? But if that's the case,
> are there OTHER Evanses out there who weren't suitable, and thus not
> mentioned? In which case, Mark could certainly be related somehow.

I can certainly see the sense in claiming Petunia as Harry's only living relative . . . suitable for 
the purpose of providing a home and therefore protection.  It could well be that there was, at 
that time, an almost-of-age Evans cousin in an orphanage, who was not suitable for the charm, 
being not yet able to provide a home, and being a more distant relation than Aunt Petunia.  If 
this was the case, why should Dumbledore even mention him to McGonnagal?  

However, fifteen years have since passed, and the young cousin is now out on his own, 
married, and has a ten-year-old son, Mark, who's been known to do some fairly odd things, like 
get candy out of locked cupboards while Daddy had the key firmly in his hand.  Hmmmm.

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