Warlocks

[Bugg]

No: HPFGUIDX 18823

Could Warlock be a reference to older Wizards? 
If this is true there could be female Warlocks. 
*Deja Vue, have I mentioned this before?* 
This group could gather occationally to discuss rules 
like Dragon breeding. Within this group there could be  
Chief Warlocks that are appointed to lead.  

Bugg ,  Obsession now at 75%  
Unicorn hair, Willow, 10 inches. 
"It's really the wand that chooses the wizard"  Ollivander.


Jenny from ravenclaw wrote:  
I looked up both 'wizard' and 'warlock' and found nearly 
identical definitions.  When I looked up 'hag', 'witch' was 
part of the definition.  So what's the difference?  

Joywitch wrote: 
I got the impression that the word "warlock" was used sort of 
the way we use the term "gentleman."  Sort of formal, sort of 
polite, often referring to customers in a retail establishment, 
but also sort of tongue-in-cheek, as in "the group of rowdy 
gentlemen in the corner."


Nov 10, 2000  Rita wrote: 
SS says dragon breeding was outlawed by Warlocks 
Convention of 1709 (and Dumbledore's letterhead says he is Chf. 
Warlock, Chf. of what is not clear). In CoS,, Ron says that his 
father is overburdened with work as, in the office there is only 
him and an old warlock named Perkins. There is a reference to the 
International Warlock Convention of 1289, and one of the boys says 
he comes from nine generations of witches and warlocks. PoA, page 
42 of UK paperback says 'wild-looking warlocks' and page 149 says 
'a bunch of rowdy warlocks'.

I used to like the idea that in HP universe, 'warlock' means an 
elected representative, therefore can be either witch or wizard. 
Chf. Warlock is prestigeous enough to be listed on the Headmaster's 
letterhead, and electec representatives are perfectly capable of 
getting rowdy in a bar. I can fantasize that Perkins being 'an old 
warlock' implies that he is useless at the job because he was given 
it as a retirement (defeat) gift by his old colleagues. But I can't 
fit 'nine generations of witches and warlocks' into that theory 
except by claiming that it was a typo