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Hogwartsian
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English
Alternative forms
en Hogwartian
en Hogwarts-ian rare
Etymology
From en Hogwarts ian.
Adjective
en comparable Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.
en Hogwarts-esque Hogwartsy
en Connie Ogle Harry loves Draco? Only in fan fiction The Miami Herald 101st year 264 4 June 2004 2A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/650921411/ 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.
en Dana Haynes No classes teach leadership skills to legislators, teachers w:Statesman Journal 153 2 31 March 2005 1C https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/202879650/ 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.
en w:Steven Rea Fantasy fulfilled? w:The Philadelphia Inquirer 177th year 192 9 December 2005 W22 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/201143364/ 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.
en w:Alex Shoumatoff A Private-School Affair Vanity Fair January 2006 146 https://archive.org/details/vanityfair545548newy/page/n169/mode/1up 2 The chapel and the Gothic Upper Dining Room, with its high, vaulted ceiling, were positively Hogwartsian.
en Rachel Wolf Tour a college from your home DVD player The Idaho Statesman 141st year, 215th issue 25 February 2006 section “Life” 2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/923375700/ 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.
en w:Kenosha News Kenosha, Wis. 22 June 2007 B1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/599938413/ We’ll play games and do Hogwartsian crafts and other activities guaranteed to please Muggles.
en David Scripps Diary of a Fresher w:The Independent 6,872 23 October 2008 section “Education” 3 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/723393744/ We have lunch together in our college’s Hogwartsian dining hall, where we discuss the evils of investment banking.
en Jackie Burrell Wrock and Rowling: Harry Potter-inspired bands are sweeping the country w:Oakland Tribune 135 142 12 July 2009 D4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/875887226/ 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.
en Don Aucoin ‘Wicked’ tough to beat, as is its star w:The Boston Globe 278 66 4 September 2010 G5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/444053026/ Elphaba is shunned by the other students at a Hogwartsian sorcery school called Shiz University, while the prom-queen perky Galinda rules the roost.
en w:Kurt Loder The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews New York, N.Y. w:Thomas Dunne Books 2011 6–7 https://archive.org/details/goodbadgodawful20000lode/page/6/mode/2up 978-0-312-64163-4 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.
en The Hippo HippoPress February 17–23 2011 45 https://archive.org/details/The_Hippo-20110217/page/n44/mode/1up 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.
en Brent Northup Queue ball w:Independent Record 15 July 2011 10A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/528395285/ The wand was a stunning piece of Hogwartsian work.
en Peter Dragicevich Pocket Sydney w:Lonely Planet 2012 12 https://archive.org/details/pocketsydney0000drag/page/12/mode/1up 978-1-74179-820-3 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.
en w:Harry Mazer; w:Peter Lerangis Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am Scholastic Inc. 2012 2013 88 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780545566377/page/88/mode/1up 978-0-545-56637-7 Until today Prince had been her favorite refuge, a Hogwartsian womb of vaulted ceilings and dark-wood wainscoting.
en w:Jill Kargman The Rock Star in Seat 3A William Morrow 2012 176 https://archive.org/details/rockstarinseat3a0000karg/page/176/mode/1up 978-0-06-200720-9 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.
en w:Robbie Collin Where Oscar winners play w:The Daily Telegraph 48,944 6 October 2012 R6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/754372902/ 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.
en Launa Schweizer Home Away: A Year of Misapprehensions, Transformations, and Rosé at Lunch 2013 259 https://archive.org/details/homeawayyearofmi0000schw/page/259/mode/1up 978-1484113752 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.
en Kerry Lengel ‘Beautiful Creatures’ a smart goth fantasy The Town Talk 15 February 2013 D1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/360297019/ 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.
en Rosemary Ponnekanti Fantasy eye candy at EMP w:The News Tribune Tacoma, Wash. 3 May 2013 22 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/677073676/ 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.
en Rosemary Ponnekanti Knights of Pythias open their house w:The News Tribune Tacoma, Wash. 14 February 2014 9 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/677280641/ 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.
en w:Oakland Tribune 27 July 2014 F8 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/929937595/ Come to the Hogwartsian pleasures of Universal’s Islands of Adventure.
en 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 2015 2016 150 https://archive.org/details/lastarmadaqueene0000ekin_a5k0/page/150/mode/1up 978-1-60598-944-0 The Irish insurgent leader Don Dermutio was placed in the tender care of an inquisitor with the wonderfully Hogwartsian name of William Malefant.
en Colin Dabkowski Dreamland taps into Buffalo’s creative underground w:The Buffalo News 8 February 2015 D2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/878263796/ 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.
en w:Lauren Oyler Cambridge's Most Controversial Instagram Celebrity Gets the Last Laugh Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3wwy4/cambridges-most-controversial-instagram-celebrity-gets-the-last-laugh 2 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20201112004754/https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3wwy4/cambridges-most-controversial-instagram-celebrity-gets-the-last-laugh 12 November 2020 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.
en w:Eric Weiner The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2016 3 https://archive.org/details/geographyofgeniu0000wein_h9k2/page/3/mode/1up 978-1-4516-9165-8 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.
en The Courier 158 250 23 October 2016 F5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/441672542/ 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.
en w:Bill Konigsberg 6 Honestly Ben Arthur A. Levine Books 2017 37 https://archive.org/details/honestlyben0000koni/page/37/mode/1up 9780545858267 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.
en w:Nick Clegg How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again) London w:The Bodley Head 2017 89 https://archive.org/details/howtostopbrexita0000cleg/page/89/mode/1up 9781847925237 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.
en Kate Morgan; Kate Armstrong; Cristian Bonetto; Peter Dragicevich; Trent Holden Melbourne & Victoria 10th w:Lonely Planet 2017 127 https://archive.org/details/melbournevictori0000morg/page/127/mode/1up 1 978-1-78657-153-3 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.
en w:Florence Williams The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative New York, N.Y.; London w:W. W. Norton & Company 2017 226 https://archive.org/details/naturefixwhynatu0000will/page/226/mode/1up 9780393242713 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.
en Christopher Reynolds Prides of Puebla w:Los Angeles Times 18 March 2018 L4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/409181132/ 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.
en Ben Zauzmer Oscarmetrics: The Math Behind the Biggest Night in Hollywood BearManor Media 2019 x https://archive.org/details/oscarmetricsmath0000zauz/page/n11/mode/1up 978-1-62933-440-0 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.
en Matthew Norman Let’s hope this phoenix never rises from the ashes w:Evening Standard 7 June 2019 28 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/713276439/ He breaks the bad news with a sweet paternal touch and enrols the orphan in his Hogwartsian school for precocious mutants.
en Tim Balk Audience gets into spirit of ‘Carol’ Daily News 24 November 2019 22 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/618602536/ The stage itself is sparse, save for a few retracting door frames and Hogwartsian lamps that hang from the ceiling, flickering luminously.
en Chris Knight Powered to the people w:Montreal Gazette 6 December 2019 C6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/616728476/ Think X-Men but without the safety of Charles Xavier’s Hogwartsian boarding school.
en uncomparable Of or relating to Hogwarts.
en Patrick Newman Next Dark arts teacher alt.fan.harry-potter 17 February 2003 > > And now you're killfiled by *me* as well. / > > / > > <plonk> / 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!
en David DiCerto ‘Goblet’ full of action, suspense The Catholic News & Herald 15 8 25 November 2005 10 https://archive.org/details/catholicnewshera2005unse/page/n123/mode/1up Harry is chosen to compete along with a Hogwartsian upperclassman, a French enchantress and a Bulgarian bruiser.
en Ruth Ann Dailey To adore the Potter saga is only human w:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 84 352 18 July 2011 A-2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/96430700/ 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.
en w:Hartford Courant CLXXX 245 1 September 2016 11 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/263768075/ 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 discussion of Hogwartsian plotlines.
en Vandini Sharma The Masters through the eyes of a 16-year-old from India w:Princeton Daily Clarion 171 169 5 April 2018 B8 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/463445430/ 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.
en Maddie Crum J.K. Rowling’s Mysterious, Handwritten 'Harry Potter' Prequel Has Been Stolen w:HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/harry-potter-prequel-stolen-jk-rowling_au_5cd34de7e4b0acea94fe395c 12 May 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20230417090824/https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/harry-potter-prequel-stolen-jk-rowling_au_5cd34de7e4b0acea94fe395c 17 April 2023 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.
Usage notes
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the form en Hogwartian (no "s") is used at least once to mean someone from Hogwarts (see the noun below).
Translations
French: fr poudlardien
Noun
en Hogwartian a resident of Hogwarts.
en 17 November 2002 Kirei Ideas that don't go together rec.arts.anime.misc https://web.archive.org/web/20260101182835/https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.anime.misc/c/WjdYsP0sDgs/m/n3sTkrJlthwJ Well, "the kids" could mean specifically Harry & Co., or just Hogwartsians... if you mean specifically Harry & Co., well, that's different.
15 November 2005 Kyle Smith WELCOME BACK, POTTER – HE FIGHTS. HE FALLS IN LOVE. HE’S RATED PG-13. IN ‘GOBLET,’ HARRY GROWS UP; ‘GOBLET’ RUNNETH OVER FOR FANS https://web.archive.org/web/20171208195847/https://nypost.com/2005/11/15/welcome-back-potter-he-fights-he-falls-in-love-hes-rated-pg-13-in-goblet-harry-grows-up-goblet-runneth-over-for-fans/ Count me among those just mild about Harry. The all-out cuteness of the Hogwartsians, with their Pufnstufs and Whiffenpoofs, is fine for people of developing minds, but the story so often stops its forward motion to take us on long detours into the land of CGI effects that it amounts to a $150 million magic show.
en 25 July 2007 Elizabeth B Naime Deathly Hallows - Mini Review alt.fan.harry-potter https://web.archive.org/web/20260101182902/https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.harry-potter/c/4KAGJ4BNLYI/m/0cvHbvQuROMJ Everyone Harry died for being protected by his willing sacrifice, all right, that's a bummer. But hey! How many of those now-immune Hogwartsians have relatives somewhere who are not, in fact, immune? There's still plenty of people elsewhere to kill, maim, and torture, and the Evil Overlord could have his fun making those who are protected pay via their unprotected relatives, friends, and pet cats.
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