Titled characters (WAS Voldemort's "lordship")

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86147

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc" 
<pengolodh_sc at y...> wrote:

Christian Stubs:
> > But I still don't see any lords or other aristocrats in the WW,
> > only gentry (except for the Bloody Baron, who's probably German
> > or Austrian rather than British, if it matters).
> 
> This made me curious - I do not recall ever seeing anything in the 
> books pointing in any particular direction regarding the Bloody 
> Baron's nationality, but I can easily have missed something.  What 
in 
> the books made you think he is German or Austrian?

Geoff:
Speaking as a UK resident, my comment would be that the title Baron 
is fairly rare - Baronet and also Baroness is not. Earl, Lord and 
Duke are reasonably common and the wife of an Earl, for example, 
might be styled Countess.

Hence, I too would be inclined to think of the Bloody Baron as being 
foreign. (Flanders and Swann: "It's knowing they're foreign that 
makes them so mad" - A Song of Pariotic Prejudice).

Geoff