Harry Potterish

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1. Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series.

   All this is to say that the night after the dinner party from hell, I had a redemptive, Harry Potterish sort of dream.

   2004, Patricia J. Williams, Open House: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons and the Search for a Room of My Own, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 11

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   Last summer interest in U.K. Garage reached Harry Potterish levels in Britain (David’s debut CD alone went six times platinum); […]

   2001 April 30, Christopher John Farley, “The Garage Door Opens”, in Time

   ‘[…] Oh, you could be something Harry Potterish.’ ‘Or maybe . . . Yes! If I could find the gear, I could go as a character from that book I’ve been reading to them.[…]’

   2002, Judith Cutler, Hidden Power, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 204

   In Not Just a Witch, Heckie has just finished Witches’ School where all the witches learn how to make the world a better place. Sound a bit Harry Potterish? It is, but it came before the J.K. Rowling adventures began.

   2003 January, DMag, number 11, page 86

   This time, my mind stayed centered in my body, getting off on the scents in the air, the mysterious, mystical copse of Harry Potterish pines in the middle of the hike, and the curious looks on the faces bf the cows.

   2004, Jessica Porter, The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieving a Radiant Mind and Fabulous Body, New York, N.Y.: Avery, →ISBN, page 55

   On the one hand this attention has brought the promise of extra funding - though few at the Universities UK annual conference in the Harry Potterish surroundings of Keble College, Oxford believe that undergraduate fees of up to £3,000 a year from 2006 are the magic wand to solve their problems.

   2004 September 15, “Conference call”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2014

2. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Harry Potter.

   Tina points to a Harry Potterish lightning bolt on her chin.

   2006, Mary Hogan, Susanna Sees Stars, Delacorte Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 199

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   That bespectacled, Harry Potterish face, frowning earnestly at the assorted jumble of Ben’s computer, stirred the soppiest memories in my breast of the days when my son had himself been just such a pink-cheeked cherub.

   2002, Kate Fenton, Picking Up, Flame, →ISBN, page 104

   His dark brown hair was all over the shop, sticking out in tufts, and his spectacles were Harry Potterish.

   2003, Jill Mansell, Falling for You, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 80

   I know about projectile vomiting because L—one of my brothers, the Harry Potterish one—had it when he was a baby.

   2004, Nicola Morgan, Chicken Friend, Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 40

   These were round, Harry Potterish, horn-rimmed glasses of zero prescription which increasingly strengthened as you pumped a clear gel solution attached to the frame inside the glass.

   2007, Robert D[avid] Kaplan, Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 307

   He was tall, reed-thin in a heavy coat, and absurdly Harry Potterish with round glasses and an owlish gaze.

   2009, Noel Hynd, Countdown in Cairo (The Russian Trilogy; 3), Zondervan, →ISBN, page 365