Int'l Confed. of Warlock/Wizard? Was: Re: Warlock/Wizard )

[kjirstem]

No: HPFGUIDX 119451


> Vivamus:
> 
> WARLOCK COMPENDIUM:
> 
(snipped, see post 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/119442
(Nice listing of use of "warlock" in books 1-5))

> Fudge has been criticized by some members of the International
> Federation of Warlocks for informing the Muggle Prime Minister of
>the crisis.

<rest of Warlock/Wizard references and all but comment 4 snipped>

> COMMENTS:
> 4. There are references BOTH to the "International Confederation of
> Warlocks" AND to the "International Confederation of Wizards". 
>Context implies they are the same body.   Is this (1) a FLINT, or (2)
>was one a typo that should have referred to the Wizengamut or the
>Confederation of Wizards, or (3) are there in fact two different such
>bodies?


kjirstem:

Thanks for putting together that list! 

I think that at least the use of "International Federation of
Warlocks" must be a typo/flint; that one quote seems to be the only
place it is used.  I suppose JKR could always say the Daily Prophet
reporter got it wrong since the quote is from a Daily Prophet article.  

Aside from that, "International Confederation of Warlocks" seems to be
used only in conjunction with the Statute of Secrecy.  Although,
(digression alert!) the situation becomes really mixed up when the
Statute of Secrecy is brought in since it may be referred to by other
names, or else there is more than one.  (Both QA and FBaWTFT refer to
an International Statute/Code of Wizarding Secrecy - from an Int'l
Confed. of Wizards meeting in 1692.  Clause 73 making each country
responsible for keeping secrecy within its own borders was added in
1750.(FBaWTF p. xvi))

Maybe JKR can't keep straight what the name is herself.  Maybe some
editing errors occur.  Maybe she uses the acronym ICW and it gets
expanded differently.  Or maybe we're back to that unreliable
narrator.  

My vote is with confusion somewhere along the line (could be the
narrator's) of what ICW means, except in the case of "International
Federation of Warlocks".

kjirstem - who wants to get her head out of the details but ...(insert
reason of your choice)