What is a Wizard ( was DD at the Dursleys: Why do people dislike the scene?

[Tonks]

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> Magpie:
It's not even that I don't *want* to be a witch, but that I'm not, 
and I wouldn't grovel about it.  That's the thing--I'm not. I don't 
really know how people can always identify with wizards.  As 
characters, sure.  But it's not like "we" as readers don't have a 
place in that world.  Why would anyone assume that s/he would be a 
wizard if this were all real?  We can't do magic, we go to regular 
schools, we get stitches and talk on the telephone.  

Tonks:
IMO a wizard's power is his ability to use the human mind to it's 
fullest capacity.  Some people are born with the gift of intuition 
and with what Muggles call "psychic gifts" or what religious folks 
would call the gifts of the spirit in one form or another. One of 
these is the ability to "see" into the world outside of space and 
time, or the mystical world.  Shaman can go there too. All of these 
folks are IMO, wizards.  So it doesn't follow that *we* can not 
really ever be wizards.  If you thing, as most Muggles do, that the 
WW is make-believe, then you are right.  But if you know that there 
is another plain of existence, then you may be entertaining wizards 
unaware.

In order to do the "magic" in the HP books one has to use the power 
of the mind. Now I am not saying that "real" wizards do the same 
type of magic as in the books. But you would be surprised just what 
a real wizard can do. Now before you all start thinking that I am a 
delusional nut case, let me remind you of some of the PBS specials 
by Bill Moyer on the power of the mind.  Also read about the 
shaman.  And the U.S. military has done research that would shock 
you as to what they think one can do with the human mind.  I can 
find anything that I have lost just by asking my subconscious mind 
to find it.  And it works. So you too might be a wizard. ;-)

Tonks_op