Warlock/Wizard - was Asking JKR just one question

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Tonks wrote:
> 
> Reading all of the post on warlock/wizard.. I am pulling out my 
> hair.. agh!!!   I know that we are all Harry Potter fans here and 
> not students of real Witchcraft/ Wizardry... but if you pick up 
> any book on the subject it will tell you that:
> 
> There are different categories of magic practitioners.  The 
> sorcerer is the lowest and most likely to use dark magic.  A 
> warlock and witch are the same thing.. different sex.  A wizard is 
> a wise man or wise woman, and the very highest level.  The term 
> Wizard is the same as a magus .. plural magi.. as in the Magi who 
> followed the star to the Christ child.  
> 

The problem is with how JKR is using the words, not with what is 
accepted use elsewhere.  For example:

"Harry - yer a wizard."  - Hagrid, PS.
"Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." - Hermione, PS.
"And he [Harry] also happened to be a wizard." - PoA (page 1).

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> I'd say some folks..,, no names 
 have fallen asleep in their 
> History of Magic class!!!

Doesn't everyone?

Tiddle pom,
Dungrollin.