Non-British views on purebloods (Was: My take on the Half-blood Prince)

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> Carol responds:
> While I find your remarks on Bulgarian royalty intriguing and don't
> want to discount the possibility that the HBP might be Viktor Krum
> (despite his having no known connection to CoS), I want to mention
> that the non-British wizards we've seen are all DEs who do care 
about
> the pureblood ideology. The Lestrange brothers, who attended 
Hogwarts
> and were part of a Slytherin (pro-pureblood?) gang, probably can't 
be
> considered non-British, but their name suggests a recent French
> origin. (As you say, JKR is generally careful about names and theirs
> does not sound British.) They're definitely purebloods since 
Bellatrix
> (Rodolphus Lestrange's wife) is still on the Black Family tapestry.
> The progression from Slytherin to Voldemort supporter, especially
> coupled with a marriage to Bellatrix Black by one of them and the
> torturing of the Longbottoms by both of them, strongly suggests a
> fanatical belief in the superiority of purebloods over Muggleborns 
or
> half-bloods that *could* reflect the views of the French wizarding
> "aristocracy" as well as those of the Slytherin faction of British
> purebloods. 
> 
> The name of Antonin Dolohov, a particularly vicious Death Eater,
> sounds Slavic or Russian--possibly he attended Durmstrang in his
> youth. (My apologies to people who have discussed this earlier; my
> point is that he appears to be a non-British advocate of Voldemort's
> pureblood ideology.) Igor Karkaroff, the runaway headmaster of
> Durmstrang, is almost certainly Slavic, though he seems to be 
Hogwarts
> educated. The important point, though, is that besides teaching the
> Dark Arts to his students, he didn't admit Muggleborns to 
Durmstrang.
> (I'm not sure where the quote is--it has to be in GOF somewhere. 
>snip<

Snow:
It is in GOF, Chapter 11-Abourd the Hagwarts Express, pg.165 Malfoy 
is talking "...Father actually considered sending me to Durmstrang 
rather than Hogwarts, you know. He knows the headmaster, you see. 
Well, you know his opinion of Dumbledore-the man's such a Mudblood-
lover-and Durmstrang doesn't admit that sort of riffraff."

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