JKR Answers mark Evans Question

[heidi]

He's nobody, and she didn't even realise what she'd done until people started theorizing. Evans, she says on her site, is a common name, and she just picked it because he was a nobody-character, like Madam Marsh, who needed to be named.

But at least she said that many of the theories people promulgated were highly plausible. I guess she just wasn't willing to rewrite her plot to incorporate any? ;)

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