[kellynch]

Also, curious to see that Mark Evans didn't play any role in this book. I know that after Book 5 that Mugglenet.com was ablaze with theories that he was going to be important in Book 6. I think we can now lay that to rest. No telling for Book 7.

I read someplace that JKR has already been asked about Mark Evans, and she said that he wasn't relevant at all to the plot.

She loves to place red herrings in the books, and perhaps this is one of them.

[MoJo2001]

I read that as well, but you know people sometimes get over excited about those red herrings.

I just laughed when I realized they wasted a lot of energy focusing on him. However, it was really cool to read all the theories at Mugglenet at the time.

Some of those folks really do have great theories.