Warlock/Wizard - was Asking JKR just one question

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 119425


Valky wrote:
> > > The word Warlock is said to be derived from Old English for Oath
Breaker. Many who know this have contention with it's use as a synonym
for Wizard or Sorcerer. It means traitor.
> > > Perhaps Warlock in JKR's WW is the equivalent of Punk, Rebel or
> some like social distinction.
> 
> > Carol earlier:
> > What about Perkins, the old warlock who shares an office with Mr.
> Weasley? He doesn't seem to be a rebel or a derelict. (If "warlock"
> > meant "derelict," surely it would be applied to Mundungus
> Fletcher?)
> 
> 
> Valky:
> Does your OOTP call Perkins a Warlock? Mine doesn't.

Carol again:
I thought it did, and I know I didn't invent the reference. But it
just calls him "a stooped, timid-looking old wizard with fluffy white
hair" (OoP Am. ed. 134), which at least gives a description of a
particular warlock, if indeed he is one. The only other reference I
found is in relation to the tent he lends to Mr. Weasley in GoF for
the QWC (the one that looks like Mrs. Figg's house inside but doesn't
smell like cats). Unfortunately all that one says is that Perkins
doesn't camp much any more because he has lumbago (GoF 80). The quote
I'm looking for, as I remember it, is "Perkins, an old warlock who
worked in Mr. Weasley's office," but exactly where that quote occurs
escapes me at the moment. (Geoff?)

I did find almost that exact wording at the Lexicon

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/wizards-o-r.html

so clearly I didn't invent it. Unfortunately the textual reference is
to GOF chapter 7, which gives us only the lumbago reference.

But assuming that it's a valid quote and that Perkins is indeed a
warlock, there's still the question of how that relates to the "rowdy
warlocks" Harry has observed elsewhere (clearly younger than Perkisn!)
and how he knows a warlock when he sees one. (Now hags are another
matter; they seem to be part human, ugly old women who eat raw liver,
essentially the "wicked witches" of children's stories and not at all
what JKR means by a witch.)

Carol, hoping someone will help her find that elusive little quotation