"Iggy Krak" (Igor Karkaroff) Was: On Jurisprudence

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 169623

Bart wrote:
<snip>
On the other hand, the HP novels are somewhat closemouthed about the
international magical community (for example, Iggy Krak is pretty
clearly not British, but he seemed to have been under MoM authority
anyway). <snip>

Carol responds:

Sorry to snip your interesting post (and the delightful reference to
"the Odd Couple"--I think Felix Unger and Adrian Monk would have been
great friends despite the generational difference)--but I'm no
authority on international law and don't want to stick so much as a
toe into those dangerous waters.

Instead, I want to focus on Igor Karkaroff. Despite his name, I think
he had a British upbringing and attended Hogwarts (sorted into
Slytherin, naturally) just as the Malfoys and assorted Lestranges did,
despite their French-sounding names.

Karkaroff, who speaks without an accent (in marked contrast to Viktor
Krum), addresses Dumbledore as "my dear fellow" (how British can you
get?) and speaks with apparently unfeigned affection of "dear old
Hogwarts," adding, "How good it is to be here, how good" (GoF Am. ed.
 247), which seems like an odd thing to say if he isn't an old
alumnus. I'm guessing, based on his black hair and beard in the
Pensieve memory and silver hair and goatee in the rest of GoF that
he's at least fifty as of the TWT, so he would have attended Hogwarts
some ten years or so before the older Weasleys. I don't think he's
quite old enough to be a contemporary of the older Nott (and LV
himself), as he doesn't seem to have been one of the original Death
Eaters, but he could well have been recruited by them.

At any rate, my impression is that, like Cho Chang and the Patil
twins, whose names sound Chinese and Indian, rspectively, Igor
Karkaroff is either British or had a British (Hogwarts) education
despite his Slavic-sounding name.

Carol, who thinks that Antonin Dolohov may be a different matter but
doesn't have enough information on him to discuss the point intelligently