DH actors

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Obviously, -vitch is not a German ending (it's Russian, right?)


zanooda:

Well, it's not the most typical ending for a Russian surname (the most typical being "-in" and "-ov"), but you can hear it rather often. This ending is characteristic of Slavic countries, especially of the parts of former Yugoslavia - Croatia, Serbia etc (I think). They have it in Poland and Slovenia as well, I believe. If this character was Russian, his name would have been not Gregorovitch, but Grigorovich - like Yuri Grigorovich, the dancer :-).


> Carol:

> I was thinking of the village that JKR describes and 
> the woman who says "I know not!" and then says something 
> in German. 


zanooda:

Krum said that Gregorovitch was retired. Maybe he moved to Germany for some reason. Or maybe it was Switzerland(sp?) :-).