Perkins & the meaning of Warlock...

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No: HPFGUIDX 88987

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, EnsTren at a... wrote:
> 
> What if the wizarding meaning "warlock" is in the more morden means from the 
> might and magic games and the like.  Someone who battles with magic, a magical 
> warrior, or whatnot, but isn't an Auror, and made something of a carreer out 
> of it.
> 
> It fits the rough and rowdy imagry AND Dumbledore's distinction of being a 
> "Chief Warlock"
> 
> Thoughts?


It's highly likely that JKR has redefined 'warlock', but if she hasn't....

The entry in Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:
Warlock. 
An evil spirit. A wizard.  O.E. waeloga, a traitor, one who breaks his word.

The S.O.E.D. gives 4 meanings,  none of them friendly ( one is a monster or
giant which would make identification easy).

The individual closest to the definitions would be Voldemort or at a stretch
Pettigrew.

Now what can we read into that?

Kneasy