Warlock/Wizard - was Asking JKR just one question

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 119456


Valky earlier:
> > > Does your OOTP call Perkins a Warlock? Mine doesn't.
> > 
Carol earlier:
> > I thought it did, and I know I didn't invent the reference. <snipped>
> and so clearly I didn't invent it.
> 
> Valky:
> I certainly didn't infer that you did.
 
> > Carol [earlier], hoping someone will help her find that elusive
little 
> quotation.
> 
> Valky:
> No need, I am not interested in bickering.
> I would rather discuss what a Warlock *may* be, than pick at faults 
> in others postings.

Carol responds:
Valky, you misunderstand me. I didn't mean to imply that you were
criticizing me or suggesting that I made it up. I only meant to cite
the two places I knew Perkins was mentioned and see if someone else
could find the one I was referring to and that Lexicon Steve
apparently read, too, since he refers to Perkins as an "old warlock"
on his site. I just want us to figure out, as a team, what a warlock
is, based on our limited information. Apparently that's what you want,
too. 

To reiterate, if Perkins is a warlock, then a warlock *can* be a
stooped old man with lumbago and fuzzy white hair--certainly not the
*definition* of a warlock, but possibly an example of one--which, as I
noted, doesn't fit very well with the "rowdy warlocks" Harry sees at
one point, and recognizes as warlocks, but does fit with Ernie
Macmillan's warlock ancestors as an indication that warlocks are not
necessarily Eastern European. (Perkins sounds plain English to me and
Macmillan Scottish or Irish; the Brits on the list will straighten me
out on this, I'm sure.)

Carol, who also is not interested in bickering and was only chiding
herself for being unable to find that quotation