Hogwartsy

English

Etymology

From Hogwarts +‎ -y.

Adjective

Hogwartsy (comparative more Hogwartsy, superlative most Hogwartsy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.
   • 2003 April 4, The Dude, “The lake.”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

     the train line from Perth to Inverness goes past a string of lochs and a couple of forest parks: Tay and Glencoe. there is a castle in this area - Blair Castle, but it's not very Hogwartsy.

   • 2013, C.J. Skuse, Dead Romantic, Frome: The Chicken House, →ISBN, page 64:

     Zoe led me up an endless Hogwartsy staircase by the light of her many-candled candlestick, passing glass cases full of china dolls with scratchy faces and toys from the olden days and butterflies pinned to boards, all covered in cobwebs.

   • 2013, Matt Pollock, “The top 10 things you didn't do but totally should have done in college”, in The Black Sheep, page 6:

     Despite the myth that Harry Potter was almost filmed in the Law Quad, Michigan’s Hogwartsiest feature remains the six miles of steam tunnel that run beneath campus.

   • 2013 November 22–28, Michael Atkinson, “film*guide”, in OC Weekly, volume 19, number 13, page 33, column 3:

     Radcliffe’s take on an extroverted Newark Jew isn’t so un-Hogwartsy that Ginsberg himself ever comes to mind, but that would be distracting, wouldn’t it?

   • 2014, Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things, Razorbill, →ISBN, page 141:

     There, around the entire block that encircles the museum (a gothic Hogwartsy thing in the center), streets are closed off and clogged with them.

   • 2016, Rachel McIntyre, The #1 Rule for Girls, Electric Monkey, →ISBN, pages 16–17:

     And the campus! Just leaving the foyer made my ears pop and there was no chance I was ever finding my way round this mad maze of staircases, Hogwartsy nooks and crannies and never-ending corridors.

   • 2016, St. Catharine’s College Freshers’ Guide 2016:

     Literally nothing feels as Hogwartsy as wearing a gown and walking through Main Court as the wind makes it billow, or cycling in your gown down King’s Parade.

   • 2016, University of Canterbury Students’ Association Student Diary 2016, page 41:

     CONGRATS TO ALL THOSE GRADUATING! Enjoy that Hogwartsy feeling in those swishy capes.

   • 2017, Jake Burt, Greetings from Witness Protection!, New York, N.Y.: Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN, page 110:

     Beneath that is a hexagon of windows, like the teetering top of an old wizard’s tower: something Hogwartsy, or Rapunzelesque.

   • 2017, Nick Mohammed, The Young Magicians and the Thieves’ Almanac, Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 369:

     This little clique is reserved for members who boast skills indistinguishable from those of Dumbledore, but who exist in an otherwise normal non-Hogwartsy world.

   • 2018, CISabroad 2019 Catalog, page 32:

     Sprawling across central Sydney, the unversity^[sic] has its own zipcode, but the mix of Hogwartsy buildings, high-tech modern buildings, and graffiti tunnel maintain its campus feel.

   • 2018 October 14, Bethany Ao, “7 Days”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 190th year, number 136, page H9:

     The festival formerly known as the Harry Potter, now wrested of all official references to butterbeer and such, can’t prohibit its wee faithful from donning their owl glasses and wide-striped scarves. Nor can Warner Bros. wrest the Hogwartsy charm from Belgian-blocked Germantown Avenue and environs.

   • 2019 June 13, Phil Clarke, “Fringe Benefits: All The Best Edinburgh Fringe Previews In London”, in The Handbook‎^[1], The Handbook UK Ltd, archived from the original on 24 November 2020:

     Don’t get me wrong, I love Edinburgh, with its Hogwartsy cobbles and granite grandeur, seeped in history and united by culture, heritage and a too-often-racist hatred of the English.

   • 2021 November, “Rupert Baynham & Bertrand Desrochers about A BRIXTON TALE”, in European Children’s Film Association Journal, page 29, columns 3–4:

     Rupert Baynham: I went to a quite Hogwartsy public school, where everyone seemed to be obsessed with street culture, with films that were gritty and edgy and street.

   • 2022 April 26, Phil de Semlyen, Matthew Singer, “40 murder-mystery movies to test your sleuthing skills to the max”, in Time Out‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 May 2022:

     You can tell Young Sherlock’s adventures are penned by Harry Potter’s Christopher Columbus, such is the Hogwartsy vibe of its public school setting and imaginative detours into the realm of magic.

   • 2022 September 22, Natalie Manley, “Piping Hot Takes: A Review of UChicago’s Student Cafés (and Some Honorable Mentions)”, in The Chicago Maroon, page 30, column 3:

     Or perhaps snagging a table or a cozy chair around lunchtime and sipping a cup of tea as the sun streams in from the old Hogwartsy glass windows is more your forte.

   • 2023 March 20, Hayden Meikle, “More meh than magic at this Hogwarts”, in Otago Daily Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 25 March 2023:

     Your character — in my case, Hayden Meiklus, just to make him sound vaguely Hogwartsy — quickly gets put into one of the four houses after donning the Sorting Hat (Ravenclaw for life!), learns some handy magic, meets a bunch of classmates, professors and assorted other folk, and learns about some stuff that here shall remain completely spoiler-free.

Synonyms

• Hogwarts-esque
• Hogwartsian