Questions concerning Snape and Lucius

[a_rude_mechanical]

No: HPFGUIDX 56874

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
> > The logical conclusion is that a) Karkaroff is from Britain and 
> received a Hogwarts education; b) after convincing the Ministry to 
> release him by naming names, he fled the country to wherever 
> Durmstrang is located (his name suggests that he perhaps had 
> relatives in Eastern Europe, who may have provided him with a 
> refuge); c) he landed a job at Durmstrang and worked his way up 
> through the ranks to be headmaster (which would again mean that a 
> person can have credentials from a school in a different country 
and 
> not be impeded in employment).  It is unclear whether English was 
> always the 'lingua franca' of Durmstrang, to bridge the many 
> languages spoken by students from a variety of countries, or 
whether 
> it is something that was instituted by an English-raised headmaster 
> (something that would be very like Karkaroff, it seems).  But it 
> clearly IS the language in which Karkaroff speaks to his students 
> (again, without any trace of an accent), unlike Madame Maxime and 
> the students of Beauxbatons, who speak to each other in French when 
> it is not imperative that others understand what they are saying.
>    

> --Barb
> 


Okay, I see your point, but I wonder if Rowling would choose to give 
the headmaster of a school in Northern Europe with students who seem 
to be from Eastern Europe the name "Igor Karkaroff" but write him as 
an Englishman?  Perhaps he was from Eastern Europe but chose to 
attend Hogwarts?  It would seem that he spent time in Britain because 
so many people are acquainted with him--Snape, Moody, Lucius...

So: what if he attended Hogwarts, decided to stay in Britain after 
graduation, got involved in Voldie's world, then fled back home after 
it was all over?