Mark Evans

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88651

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <baseball_07_05 at y...>
wrote:
> I have been seeling lots of talk about Mark Evans. People saying 
> that he could be another wizard like Harry, or even perhaps one of 
> Harry's relatives. While re-reading through Order of the Phoenix I 
> came across something that seemed to ruin these ideas.
> 
> Hardback page 143 "The Hearing". 
> 
>   "Dumbledore stood up and gave MRs. Figg his chair, conjuring a 
> second one for himself.
>   'Full name?' said Fudge loudly, when Mrs. Figg had perched herself 
> nervously on the very edge of her seat.
>   'Arabella Doreen Figg,' said MRs. Figg in her quavery voice.
>   'And who exactly are you?' said Fudge, in a bored and lofty voice.
>   'I', a resident of Little Whinging, close to where Harry Potter 
> lives,' said Mrs. Figg.
>   'We have no record of any witch or wixard living in LIttle 
> Whinging other than Harry Potter,' said MAdam Bones at once. 'That 
> situation has always been closely monitored, given...given past 
> events.'"
> 
> This seems to ruin any theories about Mark Evans.
> 
> Andrew

The Evanses are Muggles (Lily is a Muggle-born witch), and Mark is
probably a Muggle-born wizard, so the MoM wouldn't know about them.
I've speculated in the past that a common ancestor (say, Lily's
grandfather and Mark's great grandfather) was a Squib. There's no
reason that the MoM would know of Mark's family's existence or that
they had a magical child. (The names of the magical children are
written down in a book at Hogwarts, but the MoM wouldn't have access
to the book.) JKR doesn't plant names without a reason, and neither
the neighborhood nor the last name is likely to be a coincidence. And
don't forget Mark's age in OoP: he's ten, just the right age to go to
Hogwarts in Book 6.

Carol