Karkaroffa educator (Was: Snape, A Murderer? )

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 95403

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> Carol responds:
> 
> I think you're right that Karkaroff is a good deal older than Snape,
> which may mean that his use of Karkaroff's first name is a sign of
> contempt rather than closeness, though it's impossible to tell based
> on such limited evidence. I also find it odd that Karkaroff, with 
his
> Russian name, speaks such good English, which suggests, but doesn't
> prove that he attended Hogwarts at some point, possibly even at the
> same time as Tom Riddle, which would put him in his sixties in GoF 
in
> contrast with Snape's mid-thirties. He would certainly have been in
> Slytherin, but not with Snape.
> 


Potioncat:
When the Drumstrang group arrives in GoF, Karkaroff says something 
like "good old Hogwarts" as if he once attended or taught there.  (I 
thought the former, but suddenly relized it could be the latter.)
I don't think he'd be as old as Riddle.  It doesn't seem he would 
have been a DE for that long.  But that's more a feeling than 
anything.