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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Sarah" <plungy116 at a...>
wrote:
 
> mugglenet have said it should be 
> Elfrida Clagg 1612-1687, chieftainess of Warlock's Castle (?)

She was the Chief of Wizard's Council who banned harming the
endangered Golden Sniglet bird? *rushes to check Lexicon*

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/wizards-a-c.html
<<Clagg, Elfrida
Chief of the Wizard's Council in the mid-1300s, Clagg made the Golden
Snidget a protected species (see), and set up the Modesty Rabnott
Snidget Reservation in Somerset (QA). According to her Famous Wizards
card, Elfrida Clagg was born in 1612 and died in 1687. This
information doesn't jibe with with what we learn about her in QA,
however. (fw/42)>>

Her Famous Wizard card was meant to be b.1312 d.1387? 

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/ministry/ministry-history.html
<<Burdock Muldoon was Chief of the Wizards' Council in the 14th
Century (FB, QA). He was followed in office by Elfrida Clagg, who is
generally regarded as being more enlightened than her predecessors
(FB). Elfrida outlawed the hunting of the Golden Snidget, banned its
use in Quidditch, and set up a reservation to protect the tiny bird
(QA). 
(snip)
The dates of Burdock Muldoon's Chieftainship of the Council are
unclear. While his Famous Wizard card gives the dates as 1448-1450,
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them indicates that he was Chief in
the 14th century, not the 15th. Elfrida Clagg, according to FB, was
Muldoon's successor, but her Famous Wizard card states that she was
Chieftainess of the Warlock's Council (sic) during the 1600s.>>

Burdock's FW card was meant to be r.1348-1350, and Elfrida was 38 when
she got the job? Btw is that kind of young? 

If Chief of the Wizards' Council and Chieftaness of the Warlocks'
Council are the same thing, that is more evidence for my theory that
the Wizards' Council and the Warlocks' Council are the same thing, and
(con/federation/vention/vocation/clave) of Wizards is the same thing
as (con/federation/vention/vocation/clave) of Warlocks.

I'm guessing that Chief of the Warlocks' Council is also called Chief
Warlock, and therefore that the Wizards'/Warlocks' Council was (also)
 the Wizengamot. A note in one of the school books told us that the
Wizards' Council was the predecessor to the Ministry of Magic, and I'm
guessing that the Wizengamot seen in OoP is what remains of the
Wizards' Council after it was swallowed up by the bureaucracy that it
had presumably itself created, and lost power to the Minister of Magic
it had presumably itself appointed. Dumbledore's title as Chief
Warlock of the Wizengamot, which some character explains as being like
the Wizarding Supreme Court, indicates to me that 'warlock' means
'member of Wizengamot', derived from an early 'representative to
wizarding legislative assembly'.

ttp://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/books/op/book_op-facts.html
<<I think this one is a real, live error. Everard, the former
Headmaster who left his portrait in Dumbledore's office to alert folks
about Arthur being attacked, said that he traveled to the portrait of
"Elfrida Cragg" so he could get a better look. The name on the Famous
Wizards card and in Quidditch Through The Ages is  Elfrida Clagg. She
was a Chiefteness of the Wizard's Council back in the 1300s; her ban
on using a real live bird in Quidditch led to the invention of the
Golden Snitch. I suppose their could have been another famous Wizard
named Elfrida Cragg, but I think it's much more likely that it's an
error.>> 

Two different witches with the same name? It happens. It might even
have been a tradition in the Clagg family to name all eldest daughters
Elfrida, but the only two who became famous were one in the 14th
century who was Chief Warlock and protected the Golden Snidge and one
in the 17th century who also became -- surely by that time, the job
title had become Minister of Magic, rather than Chief of the Wizards'
Council? Or was she 'merely' Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot (like
Dumbledore)?

Or may the 13th century one was Elfrida Clagg and the 17th century one
was Elfrida Cragg and the error is neither the surname in OoP nor the
dates on the Famous Wizard card, but rather the surname on the Famous
Wizard card.