I'm not surprised you're asking for help with naming. Many times I've have stared a screen of prose or code for tens of minutes trying to come up with the appropriate name for a character or a variable. Semiotics is its own form of magic.
I'm going to suggest "grokker" as a possibility. It might imply a certain level of wizardry above a common hacker, but as the jargon file notes, "A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it."
And, to be honest, Harry Potter is chock full of words that "just sound silly".
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I'm going to suggest "grokker" as a possibility. It might imply a certain level of wizardry above a common hacker, but as the jargon file notes, "A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it."
And, to be honest, Harry Potter is chock full of words that "just sound silly".
-- ∇×V