Unreliable narrator (was: Snape's stalling)

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No: HPFGUIDX 117430


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
>snip> 
> The conspiracy theorists were having a lot of fun with Mark Evans, as 
> were we all--how could such a concrete detail amount to nothing?  
> Pretty easily, it seems.
>

That they did -  but I wasn't one of 'em; it was too much against
repeated canon ("only relatives").

However, you'll notice that JKR was downright apologetic for
'misleading' the fans; for unthinkingly inserting a name that would
generate suspicion. So it had to be corrected ASAP. 

Which, if you have that sort of mind, gives a back-handed 
confirmation/admission that there are other little clues that are not
misleading but on the contrary could be very informative.
Oh joy! Search the canon immediately.
Round up the usual suspects.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Kneasy