Warlock/Wizard

[macfotuk at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 112961

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, theotokos 
<theotokos_8679 at s...> wrote:
> I have read information on the Lexicon and other places I cannot 
recall but there does not appear to be a definitive 
definition/distinction between warlock and wizard.  Anyone know more 
about this?  Has JKR ever been asked to clarify?  Are they simply 
synonyms?
>  
> Theotokos
> 

Mac now: I assume that because DD belongs to the international 
confederation of warlocks (or whatever it is) and is clearly a 
wizard that YES the terms are interchangeable. 

However, what I have not understood is what makes a crone a crone 
(or is it a hag?), as opposed to a witch. JKR talks of what sound 
like child-eating witches in many of the books (cropping up at bars 
mostly and in knockturn alley) but never really says much more. I 
for one would like to know more about them but doubt there's any 
real significance. 

On a similar note, will we ever see a vampire? (also mentioned 
widely but not yet encountered and No No NO I don't believe in 
vampire!Snape, but please don't berate me for this personal view if 
you are a fan of the theories). Could a half-blood prince be a 50% 
sated vampyre count? (I joke, badly).