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[Miles]

Carol wrote:
> Silly me. Obviously, -vitch is not a German ending (it's Russian,
> right?) but I was thinking of the village that JKR describes and the
> woman who says "I know not!" and then says something in German. So
> maybe he's a Russian or Slavic wandmaker who ended up in Germany?

Miles:
My spontanous thought when reading this for the first time was "oh, he is 
living in Transylvania". I must admit that this firsth thought was not 
really logical, but could be the right direction:

The name Gregorovich comes from a slavic language, so assuming Gregorovich 
is a Russian, Pole, Bulgarian or whatever, he could live in his home country 
and still in a village with German speaking people - there are still remains 
of the German colonies that once were spread all over Eastern Europe and 
Eastern Central-Europe - for example in Transylvania.

But, and this was my fault, Romania is not a Slavic country - the name of 
the country is the origin of its language. The people in Transylvania would 
speak Romanian, Hungarian or German - but the name Gregorovich wouldn't fit 
into the language landscape, so to say.

But it could be much more simple: Gregorovich could easily be an Austrian, a 
Swiss or German wizard, with immigrated ancestors. I just checked my local 
phonebook (in a city with 270,000 inhabitants in Germany) and found a 
Gregorowicz ;).

Miles, noting that first thoughts usually only become good thoughts when 
thought out.