Crazy thought......

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 89655

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at n...> 
wrote:

Berit:
> >
> > Mark Evans lives in Little Whinging, no doubt about that. How else
> > would Harry know the full name and age of a small boy he thinks 
is a
> > Muggle, if he has never seen him around before? Mark has to have 
been
> > around for "ages"; after all, Harry is not the kind of boy who 
walks
> > around memorizing names for the sake of it; there seems to be 
loads
> > of students at Hogwarts he doesn't know the name of...


K:
> But do we know exactly how Harry knows about Dudley and his pals 
beating up
> ten year old Mark? He can't have seen it himself - pointless as 
getting
> involved may well have been when Dudley was with his gang, I can't 
really
> see Harry just walking on by and not trying to help the boy. So if 
he didn't
> see it he must have got the information from somewhere else, 
possibly he
> overheard Dudley and co bragging about it to someone or to each 
other even,
> in which case he could have got the boy's name and age from that
> conversation and *not* have already known it.
> 
> In which case your argument has a fatal flaw in it. It wouldn't 
surprise me
> if the kid lived a little bit outside of LW - Dudley and gang are 
cowards
> after all, far better to beat someone up if you can be certain that 
his
> father/friends/brothers/whoever else cares and is bigger than the 
bullies
> comes along and sees it.

Geoff:
There was a longish thread covering Mark Evans in considerable detail 
some time ago helping to cover points such as his possible 
relationship to Harry and the incident involving Dudley and his gang.

Can I refer you to messages 85255, 85340, 85357, 85376, 85379 and 
85490.  I hope the Upthread facility hasn't left any out although it 
may continue beyond the last quoted number.