Hogwartsian

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1. comparableResembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

   We’ll play games and do Hogwartsian crafts and other activities guaranteed to please Muggles.

   2007 June 22, Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wis., page B1

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   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.

   2004 June 4, Connie Ogle, “Harry loves Draco? Only in fan fiction”, in The Miami Herald, 101st year, number 264, page 2A

   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.

   2005 March 31, Dana Haynes, “No classes teach leadership skills to legislators, teachers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 153, number 2, page 1C

   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.

   2005 December 9, Steven Rea, “Fantasy fulfilled?”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 177th year, number 192, page W22

   The chapel and the Gothic Upper Dining Room, with its high, vaulted ceiling, were positively Hogwartsian.

   2006 January, Alex Shoumatoff, “A Private-School Affair”, in Vanity Fair, page 146, column 2

   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.

   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

   Synonyms: Hogwarts-esque, Hogwartsy

2. not comparableOf or relating to Hogwarts.

   Harry is chosen to compete along with a Hogwartsian upperclassman, a French enchantress and a Bulgarian bruiser.

   2005 November 25, David DiCerto, “‘Goblet’ full of action, suspense”, in The Catholic News & Herald, volume 15, number 8, page 10

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   > > 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!

   2003 February 17, Patrick Newman, “Next Dark arts teacher”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet)

   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.

   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

   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.

   2016 September 1, Hartford Courant, volume CLXXX, number 245, page 11

   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.

   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

   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.

   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

plural Hogwartsians · alternative Hogwartian · alternative rare Hogwarts-ian

1. rareRare form of Hogwartian (“a resident of Hogwarts”).

   Well, "the kids" could mean specifically Harry & Co., or just Hogwartsians... if you mean specifically Harry & Co., well, that's different.

   2002 November 17, Kirei, “Ideas that don't go together”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jan 2026

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   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.

   2005 November 15, 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”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2017

   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.

   2007 July 25, Elizabeth B Naime, “Deathly Hallows - Mini Review”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jan 2026