Hogwartian
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Hogwartian (comparative more Hogwartian, superlative most Hogwartian)
- Alternative form of Hogwartsian.
- 2003, William Black, Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 14:
- You cannot go to Turin without expecting to see its greatest attraction: the Sindone, or as we call it in English, the Shroud. The problem is that the Turin Shroud is kept well and truly shrouded in the Duomo, the rather subdued Renaissance cathedral. Enclosed in a Hogwartian trunk behind a sheet of plate glass, bulletproofed in case anyone wanted to assassinate it, the shroud’s appearances are strictly controlled.
- 2005, Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Viking, →ISBN, page 5:
- With just the right sequence, we can get a computer to read a book out loud, understand human speech, anticipate (and prevent) a heart attack, or predict the movement of a stock-market holding. If an incantation is just slightly off mark, the magic is greatly weakened or does not work at all. One might object to this metaphor by pointing out that Hogwartian incantations are brief and therefore do not contain much information compared to, say, the code for a modern software program.
- 2007 October 30, Patrick Lee, “For seminar selection, Potter will have to wait”, in Yale Daily News, page 3:
- Despite the Hogwartian allure of Yale’s Gothic-style colleges, Muggle undergraduates may have to look elsewhere to catch a true glimpse of the magical world of Harry Potter.
- 2008, Philip Martin, “Developing a Sense of Place”, in Philip Martin, editor, The New Writer’s Handbook: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft & Career, volume 2, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Press, →ISBN, pages 98–99:
- Consider the role of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. From the first volumes, Hogwarts played a tremendous role in the story, gathering the young protagonists—Harry [Potter] and his friends—into its curious and often-changing halls. It became the place where magic was learned and friendships formed. It stood for what must be saved: the ideals of the Hogwartian school, where magical powers were taught for the sake of good.
- 2008 April 17–24, Hugh Massengill, “UO = Hogwarts”, in Eugene Weekly, page 5:
- To me, the UO [University of Oregon] is Hogwarts, a secretive organization that pirates the best of the very poor, teaches them to value their new status much too highly and leaves the suffering to understand that they, of the inferior mundane class, simply don’t deserve housing, legal care, medical care, dental care or even a basic sense of belonging. […] Getting a Ph.D. in sociology or mathematics must be a fascinating exercise in Hogwartian mysticism, but what on earth does that do for the very poor, the despairing, those left on the other side of the town-gown wall?
- 2009, David Yeadon, At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, pages 17–18:
- But I’d never seen a hurling match before and sat fixated by the TV in our room, which showed one of the fastest, most bizarre, and seemingly most dangerous games I’ve ever experienced. Harry Potter would love it. Fifteen men a side hurtled by and into one another in seemingly total Hogwartian disarray, flailing long cáman paddle-sticks on which they carried—yes, carried—a small white leather ball (sliotar)—although in the truly wild days when the game first emerged I heard it was often a human skull.
- 2009, Diane Duncan, Teaching Children’s Literature: Making Stories Work in the Classroom, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 195:
- […] part of [J. K.] Rowling’s skill lies in the way in which she makes this bygone world instantaneously modern to an age of children who live in an electronic multimedia world. For example, moving staircases, portraits of ancient Hogwartian dignitaries who talk and move, the Marauder’s Map and flying dragons are familiar features of computer virtual reality games.
- 2010, Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Report, Cambridge, Mass., page 35:
- Bookended by J.K. Rowling at Harvard [University]’s Commencement and the traditional laying-on of hands at Clare [College]’s, her year had a Hogwartian quality.
Noun
[edit]Hogwartian (plural Hogwartians)
- A resident of Hogwarts.
- 2000, New York, page 53:
- The departed Hogwartians in the portraits that line the school’s corridors leave their frames and visit one another.
- 2001 November 16, Andrew O’Hehir, ““Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”"”, in Salon.com[1], archived from the original on 29 December 2011; published in Scot Peacock, editor, Children’s Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People, volume 80, Gale, 2002, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 198:
- [Robbie] Coltrane’s performance as the noble if slightly buffoonish [Rubeus] Hagrid is the standout among the sterling adult cast, and the Sorting Hat, a sort of garrulous talking napkin that assigns new Hogwartians to their houses, is a low-tech effect put to hilarious use.
- 2003, J.B. Miller, “J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Rolling Stone”, in The Satanic Nurses: And Other Literary Parodies, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN:
- “But how did you know I go to Hogwarts?” inquired Harry [Potter]. “Ah! I can always tell a, um, Hogwartian,” said Jack Flash cheerily.
- 2007 July 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter; 7), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Screams of terror rent the air: The fighters scattered, Death Eaters and Hogwartians alike, and red and green jets of light flew into the midst of the oncoming monsters, which shuddered and reared, more terrifying than ever.
- 2012, Todd S. Waters, “Is Hermione Granger the Real Chosen One?”, in Christopher E. Bell, editor, Hermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 198:
- Interactions between the Trio, the Order of the Phoenix, Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Hogwartians, and house-elves and other magical creatures are relevant not only in critical analysis, but in the overall context of the story.
- 2016, Vincent F. Rocchio, Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism, Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, →ISBN:
- In the book’s [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] version of the “Battle of Hogwarts” an armed collective of many different magical creatures and wizards comes to the aid of the defeated Hogwartians as the battle recommences.
- 2018, Isabel Capeloa Gil, “Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility”, in Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race; 33), Koninklijke Brill nv, →ISBN, part 2 (Justice), pages 108–109:
- The retrieval of the memory of the Death Eaters trial suggestively presents the trial as a moment that renders transgression visible – a transgression that is repressed by the conscious – but simultaneously demonstrates the reestablishment of order through the punishment of the defendants. It represents therefore a repetition of violence that is overcome by the process of law. The memory of this moment is in fact a menace to institutional order because it suggests its fragility and reminds Hogwartians of the ever-present possibility of transgression.