Mark Evans? Never heard of him!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 105718

> Aggie: 
> > While I'm here, can someone please explain who Mark Evans is???  
> > Please forgive my ignorance!!
> 
>
Potioncat: 
> Mark Evans is mentioned very briefly in one of the first chapters.  
> He's a 10 year old who has been beaten up byDudley.  The important 
> part (we think) is that his last name is Evans just like Harry's 
> Mum. 

Carol:
Make that thought, right, Potioncat? Aggie,you'll notice a tendency
here to find significance in small clues and to read more into them
than JKR perhaps intended. That's what many of us (including me) did.
We saw the name Mark Evans carefully dropped into OoP as "young Sirius
Black" was dropped into SS/PS. The last name Evans? In Harry's
neighborhood? In the same book where we learn that Lily's last name
was Evans? Has to be a relative! and he's ten years old? Has to be a
first-year student at Hogwarts in the next book.

We were, alas, quite wrong, as JKR informed us on her website in the
Polls question section of the FAQ. You can find her tongue-in-cheek
response (which, after having felt properly chagrined, I now find
amusing) by clicking on the paperclips at either
http://www.jkrowling.com/ or http://www.jkrowling.co.uk/en/

Carol, who thinks that the people who voted for Mark Evans in the HBP
poll might want to go back and change their votes