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by LadySekhmet » Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:12 pm
It depends on where you get your definition; both warlocks and wizards are male. Generally, the difference is between whether the male in question is an evil or good magic user. A warlock would be a male magic-user who uses his powers for dark workings (i.e., evil, which would include summoning demons). Sometimes people also define the difference in skill level, but I suspect that the more common definition would go with the evil vs good. I'm going off of my background in D&D and MERP role-playing (don't judge me!), and the incredibly, itty-bitty, teeney-weeney amount (like so small, it could fit on the head of a pin) of knowledge that I picked up from my pagan/Wiccan friends a very long time ago. Wiccans may have a more complex and different definition. Hogwarts is a wizarding schoool, and in that case, indicates that individuals (male and female) are magic users, so "wizard" can also be used to simply label magic users without gender, but if you remember, in HP, wizards are generally men and witches are women - in that case they don't even acknowledge "warlock" or "sorcerer/sorcerress" or "enchanter/enchatress."
In this case, RB, it's clear that the cult leader would be considered an evil, male magic user, i.e., a warlock.