Karkaroffa educator

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No: HPFGUIDX 95424

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

Jenn, I still speak Russian at home (most of the times anyway :o)) 
and your family members are absolutely right - to sound Russian the 
name should end with "ov", not "off"

"Kar- kar" is a russian sound for raven crow. Could it be that he is 
a raven animagus? (just kidding ;o))

Alla