Clarification On Terminology

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 106993

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <asian_lovr2 at y...> wrote
 about the words: "wizard" and "warlock". 

<< We have discussed this before, but without a comment from JKR there
is no way to resolve it. I would love to see her address it on her
website. The best we could come up with was that it was a cultural
thing. Harry seems to know a warlock when the sees one, he speaks of
seeing them in the Leaky Cauldron and Three Broomstick. In a room full
of wizard, he specifically mentions a select group of warlocks. So
they are identifiable. 
 
The best I could come up with was that 'wizard' is a Western European
term for magical males, and 'warlock' is an Eastern European term for
the same thing. Harry identifies warlock based on regional dialets and
general appearance. I picture, Eastern Europeans being similar to
Krum; dark hair, dark eyes, pale or olive skin, thick accets, etc...>>

I don't think it works to say that 'warlocks' are Eastern European.
Here are some of the citations:

PS/SS: Dumbledore's letterhead includes "Chf. Warlock" among his
titles. In OoP, we hear: "They've demoted him from Chief Warlock on
the Wizengamot" -- so that's of what he was Chf. Warlock.  

PS/SS:   "Dragon breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks' Convention of
1709"
CoS: "International Confederation of Warlocks' Statute of Secrecy"
CoS: "the International Warlock Convention of 1289" 
PoA: "International Federation of Warlocks" 

CoS: "It's only him and an old warlock called Perkins in the office."
in OoP, we see Perkins: "A stooped, timid-looking old wizard with
fluffy white hair.

CoS: "I might tell you that you can trace my family back through nine
generations of witches and warlocks and my blood's as pure as
anyone's, so -"

QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES calls Quidditch "the noble sport of
warlocks", possibly from the title of a 1620 book on page 18.

My theory of the meaning of 'warlock' is in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23355 : 
"the term "warlock" is the wizarding folk's term for an elected
representative, like "M.P." for the Brits."

My theory explains that the members of the Wizegamot are titled
'warlocks' so their chairman is 'Chief Warlock', why there are all 
those Conventions and Confederations of Warlocks passing laws, and 
why 'warlock' would be simultaneously a title to be proud of, and a
type of people who get "rowdy" and "wild-looking".