[HPforGrownups] Re: Warlocks

[GerRoJen at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30327

Bree says:

***warlock is probably a pejorative term meaning a backwoods, rowdy, oafish, 
old-school (red-neck?) wizard.***
<snip>   And also:
***This theory still allows that warlock could also be used for warrior 
wizards, as soldiers tend to be a rowdy lot, and generally male.***

I like this theory.  Warlock (Webster's New World College Dictionary) is an 
oath breaker.  Warloghe.  (Waer=faith, a compact  Loghe=Lie)  So, as it is 
deragatory, yet used to describe Wizards, I think Rowling may be "reclaiming" 
for the Wizards.

Most of the terms Muggles use for witches and wizards are derogatory.  I 
thought that perhaps Warlock (in the sense Rowling was using it) meant a 
"higher" wizard, especially used with "Supreme Mugwump".  I thought that was 
just some goofy word until I looked it up in the dictionary.  It is the 
Algonquian word for "chief".  (Or anyone of the Independent party.  LOL)  

Also, as for Dumbledore (and others) being called upon from Muggles for help, 
it makes sense.  Fudge and the Prime Minister is in contact, obviously.  He 
contacted the PM in PoA to get their help in the hunt for Sirius.  It only 
seems natural that Muggles would call on Wizards for help, too.

Jessie

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"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
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