Hogwartsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hogwartsian
form: most Hogwartsian
form: Hogwartian
form: Hogwarts-ian
Etymology: From Hogwarts + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: These days she spends about 20 to 25 hours a week on the site, which features discussion groups as well as stories archived into four houses, a predictably Hogwartsian touch.
ref: 2004 June 4, Connie Ogle, “Harry loves Draco? Only in fan fiction”, in The Miami Herald, 101st year, number 264, page 2A:
text: An intense setting: high ceilings, darkened wood, portraits of glowering white men in muttonchops and morning dress, a clock stopped perpetually at 9:36. All very Hogwartsian.
ref: 2005 March 31, Dana Haynes, “No classes teach leadership skills to legislators, teachers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 153, number 2, page 1C:
text: Faithfully adapted from the first of C.S. Lewis’ seven Narnia books, which introduces the four Pevensie siblings, sent to the country to avoid the London blitz of World War II, this tale of ordinary schoolchildren finding their inner courage to help out a land of talking fauns, foxes, satyrs and dwarfs combines the Middle-Earthian mythology of The Lord of the Rings with the Hogwartsian heroism (and kid malevolence) of the Harry Potter series.
ref: 2005 December 9, Steven Rea, “Fantasy fulfilled?”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 177th year, number 192, page W22:
text: The chapel and the Gothic Upper Dining Room, with its high, vaulted ceiling, were positively Hogwartsian.
ref: 2006 January, Alex Shoumatoff, “A Private-School Affair”, in Vanity Fair, page 146, column 2:
text: They give a better feel for the colleges as students talk about whatever makes their school unique: for example, Yale’s Hogwartsian residential college system or Princeton’s notorious eating clubs.
ref: 2006 February 25, Rachel Wolf, “Tour a college from your home DVD player”, in The Idaho Statesman, 141st year, 215th issue, section “Life”, page 2:
text: We’ll play games and do Hogwartsian crafts and other activities guaranteed to please Muggles.
ref: 2007 June 22, Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wis., page B1:
text: We have lunch together in our college’s Hogwartsian dining hall, where we discuss the evils of investment banking.
ref: 2008 October 23, David Scripps, “Diary of a Fresher”, in The Independent, number 6,872, section “Education”, page 3:
text: Russell went last summer and describes it as a Hogwartsian nirvana: four days of music with 12 to 14 major bands, including The Remus Lupins, on the main stage.
ref: 2009 July 12, Jackie Burrell, “Wrock and Rowling: Harry Potter-inspired bands are sweeping the country”, in Oakland Tribune, volume 135, number 142, page D4:
text: Elphaba is shunned by the other students at a Hogwartsian sorcery school called Shiz University, while the prom-queen perky Galinda rules the roost.
ref: 2010 September 4, Don Aucoin, “‘Wicked’ tough to beat, as is its star”, in The Boston Globe, volume 278, number 66, page G5:
text: About the time Asriel decides to take off for the northern polar regions in search of the source of this stuff, the glamorous Mrs. Coulter (blazingly blond Nicole Kidman) arrives on the scene, making a runway entrance into a vast university dining hall that’s so blatantly Hogwartsian, you half expect to see Albus Dumbledore go tottering by.
ref: 2011, Kurt Loder, The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, pages 6–7:
text: Privilege gives the reader a peek inside the 2,000-acre St. Paul’s campus, with its beautiful grounds and Hogwartsian great hall, its dress codes, its social life, its rituals and rules.
ref: 2011 February 17–23, The Hippo, HippoPress, page 45:
text: The wand was a stunning piece of Hogwartsian work.
ref: 2011 July 15, Brent Northup, “Queue ball”, in Independent Record, page 10A:
text: The large campus of Sydney Uni dominates the suburbs on the city’s western flank. While its Hogwartsian stone walls may suggest primness and properness, that’s quite far from the reality of Sydney student life.
ref: 2012, Peter Dragicevich, Pocket Sydney, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Until today Prince had been her favorite refuge, a Hogwartsian womb of vaulted ceilings and dark-wood wainscoting.
ref: 2012, Harry Mazer, Peter Lerangis, Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, Scholastic Inc., published 2013, →ISBN, page 88:
text: The cozy Hogwartsian set piece I discovered inside was perfection. A hundred-year-old shop, complete with stone mantel and wood-burning fireplace, was out of a dream. And books, books, books, old, new, piled high. There was almost a whiff of magic, though nothing sinister, just charmed.
ref: 2012, Jill Kargman, The Rock Star in Seat 3A, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 176:
text: Newell, who directed the fourth Harry Potter film, has given this adaptation a definite Hogwartsian aura: along with flickering gothic lighting and tilted camera angles.
ref: 2012 October 6, Robbie Collin, “Where Oscar winners play”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 48,944, page R6:
text: Grace needed no bribes to get right in on the fun of our ceremony, and immediately adopted a faux-serious British accent to give a Hogwartsian dignity to the proceedings.
ref: 2013, Launa Schweizer, Home Away: A Year of Misapprehensions, Transformations, and Rosé at Lunch, →ISBN, page 259:
text: He displays a refreshingly old-fashioned patience with exposition, slowly developing the characters and unveiling the fantastical milieu so that by the time you end up in a Hogwartsian underworld complete with leatherbound spell books and gothic statuary, you’re having too much fun not to buy in.
ref: 2013 February 15, Kerry Lengel, “‘Beautiful Creatures’ a smart goth fantasy”, in The Town Talk, page D1:
text: There also is tacky stuff that just shouldn’t be there: reproduction fantasy-art in a fake Hogwartsian gallery and dull talking-head videos by film producers, for instance.
ref: 2013 May 3, Rosemary Ponnekanti, “Fantasy eye candy at EMP”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 22:
text: If you’ve attended First Night events at the Pythian Temple, you’ll have gone through the enormous studded Hogwartsian doors at 924 ½ Broadway.
ref: 2014 February 14, Rosemary Ponnekanti, “Knights of Pythias open their house”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 9:
text: Come to the Hogwartsian pleasures of Universal’s Islands of Adventure.
ref: 2014 July 27, Oakland Tribune, page F8:
text: The Irish insurgent leader Don Dermutio was placed in the tender care of an inquisitor with the wonderfully Hogwartsian name of William Malefant.
ref: 2015, Des Ekin, The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O’Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion, New York, N.Y.; London: Pegasus Books, published 2016, →ISBN, page 150:
text: According to McKnight, attendees included “a Turkish exchange student, an Anglican female priest,” and a dishwasher from Merge restaurant who sewed a Hogwartsian cape for himself out of a tablecloth.
ref: 2015 February 8, Colin Dabkowski, “Dreamland taps into Buffalo’s creative underground”, in The Buffalo News, page D2:
text: To openly fantasize about the "fairy tale" (Calloway's word) of studying at a Hogwartsian institution where everyone's accent is pleasant is, as they would say in Cambridge, pretty cringe.
ref: 2015 September 2, Lauren Oyler, “Cambridge's Most Controversial Instagram Celebrity Gets the Last Laugh”, in Vice, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
text: One overcast morning, a spring tease in the air, I hop the tube to King’s Cross Station, then walk a few hundred yards to the university’s Hogwartsian campus.
ref: 2016, Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Join us before the concert at 3pm for a Halloween party featuring sonic sorcery, our beloved costume contest and all other manner of Hogwartsian fun.
ref: 2016 October 23, The Courier, volume 158, number 250, page F5:
text: There’s something delightful about the idea of dressing up for dinner and sitting in assigned seats in the dining hall, like back in the days of yore, or at Hogwarts. […] Instead, I sat with the baseball team, which was about as un-Hogwartsian as it got.
ref: 2017, Bill Konigsberg, chapter 6, in Honestly Ben, Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Notwithstanding all the colourful pomp and ceremony, regardless of the yah-boo drama of Prime Minister’s Questions, our Parliament is fundamentally dysfunctional and outdated, a Hogwartsian institution that, most of the time, is toothless to stop the government of the day doing what it likes.
ref: 2017, Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again), London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Alpha60’s signature store is hidden within the Hogwartsian chapter house of St Paul’s Cathedral, where fresh, casual women’s clothing is displayed on a phalanx of mannequins while giant projections of roosters keep watch.
ref: 2017, Kate Morgan, Kate Armstrong, Cristian Bonetto, Peter Dragicevich, Trent Holden, Melbourne & Victoria, 10th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 127, column 1:
text: Tuition is a steep $49,500 per year, on a par with other boarding schools, although you won’t find a Hogwartsian dining hall or stacks of leather-bound books.
ref: 2017, Florence Williams, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 226:
text: At the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, which UNESCO says may have been the first public library in the Americas, founded in 1646, I lingered under the arched ceilings, wondering how to say “Hogwartsian” in Spanish.
ref: 2018 March 18, Christopher Reynolds, “Prides of Puebla”, in Los Angeles Times, page L4:
text: The night of the ceremony arrived, and I co-hosted an Oscar party in one of Harvard’s Hogwartsian common rooms while nervously anticipating the results.
ref: 2019, Ben Zauzmer, Oscarmetrics: The Math Behind the Biggest Night in Hollywood, BearManor Media, →ISBN, page x:
text: He breaks the bad news with a sweet paternal touch and enrols the orphan in his Hogwartsian school for precocious mutants.
ref: 2019 June 7, Matthew Norman, “Let’s hope this phoenix never rises from the ashes”, in Evening Standard, page 28:
text: The stage itself is sparse, save for a few retracting door frames and Hogwartsian lamps that hang from the ceiling, flickering luminously.
ref: 2019 November 24, Tim Balk, “Audience gets into spirit of ‘Carol’”, in Daily News, page 22:
text: Think X-Men but without the safety of Charles Xavier’s Hogwartsian boarding school.
ref: 2019 December 6, Chris Knight, “Powered to the people”, in Montreal Gazette, page C6:
synonyms: Hogwarts-esque
Hogwartsy
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.
examples: text: > > And now you're killfiled by *me* as well. / > > / > > / Since this *is* a Harry Potter newsgroup, how about making the public plonkings more in line with "Hogwartsian English?" Instead of just a simple "plonk," how about: Anatha Keplonka!
ref: 2003 February 17, Patrick Newman, “Next Dark arts teacher”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: Harry is chosen to compete along with a Hogwartsian upperclassman, a French enchantress and a Bulgarian bruiser.
ref: 2005 November 25, David DiCerto, “‘Goblet’ full of action, suspense”, in The Catholic News & Herald, volume 15, number 8, page 10:
text: We discussed all things Hogwartsian with giddy kids in costumes—capes, round black spectacles and lightning-bolt scars drawn on foreheads—until the moment came when we could claim three pre-ordered copies and dash home.
ref: 2011 July 18, Ruth Ann Dailey, “To adore the Potter saga is only human”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 84, number 352, page A-2:
text: The Year of Harry Potter at the library starts on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 p.m., an all age’s book group devoted the^([sic]) discussion of Hogwartsian plotlines.
ref: 2016 September 1, Hartford Courant, volume CLXXX, number 245, page 11:
text: The first thing I did was to spread out the letters from Augusta on our sofa, photograph them and send him a ceremonial video, prim, with a thick British accent. You could imagine the Harry Potter vibes of a first Hogwartsian letter.
ref: 2018 April 5, Vandini Sharma, “The Masters through the eyes of a 16-year-old from India”, in Princeton Daily Clarion, volume 171, number 169, page B8:
text: On Friday, England’s West Midlands Police tweeted a callout to Harry Potter fans: Should they see a notecard covered front-to-back in handwritten Hogwartsian lore, they should alert authorities. The paper is a valuable Harry Potter prequel written and auctioned off by J.K. Rowling that was stolen from its owner during a burglary in Birmingham, England, three weeks ago.
ref: 2017 May 12, Maddie Crum, “J.K. Rowling’s Mysterious, Handwritten 'Harry Potter' Prequel Has Been Stolen”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2023:
glosses: Of or relating to Hogwarts.