Karkaroffa educator

[slytherin_jenn]

No: HPFGUIDX 95415

> Sherrie here:
> 
> (As a side note - any other students of Russian out there?  The 
closest 
> cognate I can find to "Karkaroff" is the sound that's used to 
signify laughter, the 
> Russian version of "ha-ha" (which sounds more gutteral than the 
English).  
> Anyone got any other suggestions as to the source of the name?
> 
> Sherrie

I don't think there is any word in Russian that would come close to 
anything sounding like Karkaroff. & I've asked several members of my 
family who have spend most of their lives in Russia and they couldn't 
come up with anything too. In Russian; last names like that would 
usially end in a -v so it'd be Karkarov instead of Karkaroff? 

Only think I can think of in terms of Russian "Kar-kar" is the 
Russian sound for a raven's crow? But maybe he's Bulgarian or from 
another country in Eastern Europe. JKR mentions Bulgaria far more 
often than she does Russia?
jenn