Karkaroff as educator

[potioncat]

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> Carol adds:
> I looked up "Igor," which turns out to be simply the Russian variant
> of Old Norse "Ivor," meaning "bowman" or "bow warrior"--not a 
meaning
> I'd have chosen for the name of a treacherous coward, but maybe JKR 
is
> considering the connotations rather than the literal meaning of the
> name. (Isn't Igor always the name of the hunchbacked assistant in 
bad
> Frankenstein movies? Very uncanonical, but this isn't a Mary Shelley
> list so I'll keep my complaints on that subject to myself.)

Potioncat:
I couln't shake that image no matter how hard I tried.  Never mind 
that it was Marty Feldman from "Young Frankenstein" that my mind's 
eye saw.
> 
Carol: 
> To return to Karkaroff as educator, the topic of this thread, I 
doubt
> very much that Dumbledore would have hired him as a teacher despite
> having hired Snape, another ex-DE. Even if DD has no scruples about
> hiring people who have performed Unforgiveable curses--and there is 
as
> yet *no canon* to show that Snape ever did so--Karkaroff clearly
> cannot be trusted, and hiring him would create friction between him
> and Snape, DD's trusted lieutenant, whom Karkaroff betrayed. 


Potioncat:
I think he was most likely a student, but he could have taught at 
Hogwarts in his pre-DE days.  It's hard to tell just how old he is.  
Sirius never mentions him as being at Hogwarts when they were. And we 
don't know if Minerva knew him. What I'd like to know, is if we are 
correct, why didn't he go to Durmstrang?

And, along a line discussed earlier in this thread.  Since Karkaroff 
seems so English, would he really be insulted when Snape called him 
Igor?  He does call Severus by his first name.  The one time Snape 
does this, is when he doesn't know there are students around. Even 
with an age difference, if they had worked closely wouldn't first 
names make sense?