Citations:Ravenclaw

English citations of Ravenclaw

Noun: "a person bearing traits associated with Ravenclaw house from the Harry Potter series, including intelligence, creativity, and love of learning"

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• 2000 October 28, Jonathan Ellis, “Bushisms - Harry Potter related reply”, in alt.fan.harry-potter‎^[1] (Usenet):

  I suppose you could say that Gordon Brown is a Ravenclaw, and so is the former Tory Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd... and John Major could never be mistaken for anything other than a Hufflepuff.

• 2011, Taylor Morris, Hello, Gorgeous!: Blowout, Grosset & Dunlap (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  “Let's go, Ravenclaws!” Kristen cheered loudly. Lizbeth laughed and nudged her in the arm.

  “You're such a dork,” she told her. “They're just warming up.”

• 2011, Cyrus Duff, "Which House? Harry Potter Helps Sort Presidential Field", Hartford Courant, 24 August 2011:

  It's possible that Americans could turn around in 2012 and elect a Slytherin or a Ravenclaw as president.

• 2012, Kristi Cook, Eternal, Simon and Schuster (2013), →ISBN, page 232:

  “I've always thought of myself as more of a Ravenclaw.”

• 2012, "What Harry Potter house are you?", The Black Sheep (Western Michigan University), Volume 2, Issue 1, 19 January - 8 February 2012, page 11:

  "I'm definitely a Ravenclaw because I started reading my textbooks when I got them over the summer."

• 2012, Annie Alleman, "Nerdist Hardwick does standup in Rosemont", The Beacon-News, 6 December 2012:

  Chris Hardwick is a Ravenclaw.

  Kind of surprising — he always thought of himself as a Gryffindor — until he realized that Gryffindor was mainly where the dumb jocks went. Not the nerds.

• 2014, Charles Finch, The Last Enchantments, St. Martins Press (2014), →ISBN, page 80:

  “I know we've met, but I'm Tom. Law.”

  “And I'm Will,” I said. “English.”

  She rolled her eyes. “I'm Ella. Ravenclaw.”