Warlock/Wizard - was Asking JKR just one question

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 119486


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Vivamus" <Vivamus at T...> wrote:
> 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?

Finwitch:

Nice list - what comes ICoW, well - I'd say that it was Warlocks at 
first (as History and official note implies) - but they changed the 
name to Wizards' later. (possibly when the first witch joined in? Or 
some notification of gender equality was given out? After all, the 
word wizard has been used for both genders by Albus Dumbledore. 
(referring to Harry and Hermione). Then again, there is that 'witch 
and wizard'- business... tricky, but oh well - I suppose the language 
has changed somewhat...

Hmm-mm. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You know, if 
Wizardry was nothing but another name for witchcraft, why 
differentiate?

Maybe witchcraft refers to the wandless things they do - Herbology, 
Potions, Care for Magical Creatures, flying with broomsticks, using 
magical objects other than the wand - and wizardry is what they do 
with a wand.

Or maybe it's that magical power or skill goes - Muggle, Squib, 
witch/warlock, wizard. After all, the word 'wizard' also refers to 
high skill (particularly in computing, also there are those graph-
creating wizards and installation wizards...).

Finwitch