Mark Evans again (Was: Crazy thought......)

[justcarol67]

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Whizbang:
Oops! ;) Lost in the translation.  
The original premise was that Mark Evans is actually Lily 
and Petunia's father who has manipulated time and shown up to 
help Harry.
Whizbang
 
> > 
> > Carol:
> > A theory which I had rejected. :-) See my "slight problem" comment
> > above. I happen to think that Mark Evans is a distant relative of
> > Harry's who will show up as a Muggle-born wizard at Hogwarts in 
> Book
> > 6. As for Voldemort somehow harming Petunia's family, I agree that
> > that's probable. But the whole "Mark Evans is Harry's grandfather"
> > idea can't work because Harry's maternal grandfather was a Muggle.
> > Clear now, I hope?
> 
> Whizbang:
> 
> Then you consider Dumbledore untruthful?  And we don't know, yet, if 
> Mark is a wizard.  It seems a reasonable guess but .......
> 
> And while we're questioning Dumbledore's truthfulness or 
> knowledgableness, maybe we should question if the Evanses were in 
> fact Muggles, and whether Mr Evans was even Lily's father.  So many 
> unanswered questions.
> 
> - Whizbang, who finds these forums hopelessly difficult to discuss 
> anything on.

Carol:
I hope it's the format of the forums and not me (or us) that makes
them difficult for you. :-)

To answer your question, I'm not one of the people who considers
Dumbledore evil or devious, but he does withhold information and (like
JKR herself), he can be very evasive. As for knowledge, I don't think
he would know about Mark Evans because he's too young to be at
Hogwarts and Dumbledore would have no reason to go looking for his
name in the book that records the birth of magical children before he
turns eleven and is ready to receive his letter. Mark's parents (or
guardians) must be Muggles or the MoM would have known about them.

As for Lily's and Petunia's parents, also Evanses, I would question
their being Muggles except for the many times that JKR has said that
Lily is a Muggle-born and that Petunia is a Muggle. The statement that
Petunia is a Muggle has been made in every book and not just from
Harry's point of view, which would make it subject to doubt (like the
supposed car accident), and she has made the same point in an
interview which I've already quoted in several previous posts. 

The relationship between Harry and Mark is just a theory, which I base
on Mark's last name and age, the revelation of his mother's last name
in the same book, and Harry's expressed wish for family. If I'm right,
Dumbledore, who is not omniscient, is not lying to Harry. He's simply
unaware of the existence of this interesting little distant cousin,
who till now has been hidden in the Muggle world.

I guess that you and I agree on one point, and that's the probable
importance of Mark Evans in the next book.

Carol, who hopes you'll go back and read previous threads on the topic
if you're really interested. I don't want to repeat them here.