Dolohov & Lack of Russian Accent (Was Re: Karkaroffa educator)

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 95586

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Debra" wrote: ...Yes, we have 
heard Dolohov speak, in the Dept. of Mysteries battle scene, though 
he did seem to get cut off a lot and didn't seem to have an 
accent...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

As a New Yorker, I have no problem with Karkarov/ff and Dolohov (and 
Zabini, Chang and Patil for that matter) being simply Brits of 
foreign extraction. Karkarov, especially, speaks as if he went to 
Hogwarts. Maybe his grand- or great-grandparents fled the revolution. 
Or maybe he's Russian like I'm African, which is to say, far back and 
not very. Over here, city people are likely to have any old surname 
and the matter of nationality only comes up on holidays where you 
bring a baked specialty to school or work.

--JDR (whose surname is Scots-Irish)