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[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190148



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

Potioncat:
> > Has anyone ever worked out how many characters or place names in the series? Clearly she put a great deal of thought into some names and a bit less in others. Still, it's curious that she forgot Lily's maiden name was Evans and gave it to a throw away character as well.

Pippin:
> Jim Dale or Stephen Fry may have -- they had to figure out how to pronounce them all. :)
 
> I don't believe JKR forgot Lily's maiden name was Evans, she just misjudged the effect. I think she was going for the idea that Petunia Dursley, nee Evans, who complains that Harry Potter is such a common name, had a common name herself. 

Geoff:
That may be so, but I wonder if JKR introduced Mark Evans at the beginning of 
OOTP as a very tongue-in-cheek action?

How many of you recall the long discussion which went on as to whether he was 
a relative when the Dursleys were supposed to be the only ones and suggestions 
that he belonged to a very distant family link and had not been considered in Dumbledore's calculations?