questions about HP (Evans?)

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 82436

 
> urghiggi :
 Ddore tells Harry point blank in OoP that 
> Petunia is Lily's "only living relative." (Or at the very least 
that Petunia was 
> Lily's only living relative at the time of the Harry hand-off.) So 
how can Mark 
> Evans (and, relevant to some wilder theories, Severus Snape) be 
related to 
> Harry?
snip
> Clearly JKR can't have Mark be related to HP IF she wants to 
preserve the 
> idea that Ddore's statements can be trusted to be correct. If HP 
and Mark 
> Evans are blood relatives, then Ddore is just flat-out wrong in the 
statement 
> above ... so if she wants to imply that, and validate theories 
about Ddore's 
> fallibility and hidden agendas, then perhaps Mark WILL emerge as a 
relative.
> 
> One other "out" I've seen proposed, that ostensibly would allow 
Mark to be 
> related AND allow Ddore's credibility to remain intact, is the 
interp that 
> Petunia WAS the only living relative at the time Harry was turned 
over to the 
> Durselys and that Mark was born later (which of course he would 
have to 
> have been, given his age). But for Mark to be a living relative, 
then one of his 
> PARENTS, who surely were around at that time, also has to be a 
living 
> relative, which blows up the argument....
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Ginger writes:

I have been trying to reconcile the "Petunia is the only living 
relative" with the existance of 10 year old Mark as more than 
coincidence.
Here's what I came up with.  I'll put it chronologicly as it makes 
more sense that way.
Lily and Petunia have a brother.  We'll call him Jasper.
Jasper marries.  We'll call her Ethel.
Lily and Petunia marry James and Vernon.
Jasper dies (time unsure)
Dudley and Harry born.
V-mort vanquished, James and Lilly killed.  Harry left with Dursleys.
Ethel Evans (the widow Evans), who has kept her late husband's 
surname, gives birth to Mark.  Not Jasper's son, but with the father 
unknown, he gets the Evans surname.

Now we have Petunia as the only realtive, but the name of Mark Evans 
being significant.  Petunia may have never liked Ethel or may have 
dropped her after Jasper's death, or even when she became pregnant 
with Mark, at which time Harry would have been around 3 and wouldn't 
have remembered it.

The point?  Mark is significant, in that he introduces Harry to 
Ethel, who knew Lily and (likely) James and can give him the info he 
hasn't been asking from anyone else.  Not to mention that he's get 
away from the Dursleys during his summer sentance.

It's a stretch, and I'd love to hear a better idea, but that's my 
best shot.

Happy thoughts, Ginger, 
who laughed so hard on Iggy's "Isis! Isis! (Ra! Ra! Ra!)" that she 
almost choked.