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[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 113480

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Theotokos wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/112930 :
> 
> << 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? 
>>
> 
> Here is a reply that I gave to that request about a month ago:
> None of us know for sure (or if someone does, they haven't told).
snip> 
> In those threads, Steve b_boymn suggests that 'wizards' are Western
> European and 'warlocks' are Eastern European. That doesn't explain 
why Dumbledore's title as chairman of the Wizengamot is Chief 
Warlock, and why Quidditch, a sport invented in England, is 
called 'the noble sport of warlocks'.


Tonks here:

History of Magic 101

There are different categories of magic practitioners.  Warlock is a 
male Witch.  JKR has mudded the waters because she is not using some 
of the terms properly. I assume that she is doing this to go along 
with popular terminology. It is not her intent to teach Witchcraft 
and therefore she does not concern herself with the proper use of 
the terms. The first level of Magic practitioner is a warlock/witch. 
Members of this group are also called sorcerers/sorceresses. They 
are the ones most likely to practice Dark Magic, according to some 
sources. The second class is the Magician, and there is no mention 
of this group in the books so we will skip over them. The highest 
level is the Magus or wise man/wise woman. Wizard/Crone to be 
exact.  Hag is a pejorative term used by those who did not have an 
understanding or appreciation of Magic. "A wizard(or crone) is a 
person who is a super magician and employs hidden knowledge to 
penetrate to the very meaning of life."  The Magi who followed the 
star to the birth of Jesus were Wizards.

Tonks_op