Hogwartsian

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We have lunch together in our college’s Hogwartsian dining hall, where we discuss the evils of investment banking.

Russell went last summer and describes it as a Hogwartsian nirvana: four days of music with 12 to 14 major bands, including The Remus Lupins, on the main stage.

Elphaba is shunned by the other students at a Hogwartsian sorcery school called Shiz University, while the prom-queen perky Galinda rules the roost.

About the time Asriel decides to take off for the northern polar regions in search of the source of this stuff, the glamorous Mrs. Coulter (blazingly blond Nicole Kidman) arrives on the scene, making a runway entrance into a vast university dining hall that’s so blatantly Hogwartsian, you half expect to see Albus Dumbledore go tottering by.

Privilege gives the reader a peek inside the 2,000-acre St. Paul’s campus, with its beautiful grounds and Hogwartsian great hall, its dress codes, its social life, its rituals and rules.

The wand was a stunning piece of Hogwartsian work.

The large campus of Sydney Uni dominates the suburbs on the city’s western flank. While its Hogwartsian stone walls may suggest primness and properness, that’s quite far from the reality of Sydney student life.

Until today Prince had been her favorite refuge, a Hogwartsian womb of vaulted ceilings and dark-wood wainscoting.

The cozy Hogwartsian set piece I discovered inside was perfection. A hundred-year-old shop, complete with stone mantel and wood-burning fireplace, was out of a dream. And books, books, books, old, new, piled high. There was almost a whiff of magic, though nothing sinister, just charmed.

Newell, who directed the fourth Harry Potter film, has given this adaptation a definite Hogwartsian aura: along with flickering gothic lighting and tilted camera angles.

Grace needed no bribes to get right in on the fun of our ceremony, and immediately adopted a faux-serious British accent to give a Hogwartsian dignity to the proceedings.

He displays a refreshingly old-fashioned patience with exposition, slowly developing the characters and unveiling the fantastical milieu so that by the time you end up in a Hogwartsian underworld complete with leatherbound spell books and gothic statuary, you’re having too much fun not to buy in.

There also is tacky stuff that just shouldn’t be there: reproduction fantasy-art in a fake Hogwartsian gallery and dull talking-head videos by film producers, for instance.

If you’ve attended First Night events at the Pythian Temple, you’ll have gone through the enormous studded Hogwartsian doors at 924 ½ Broadway.

Come to the Hogwartsian pleasures of Universal’s Islands of Adventure.

The Irish insurgent leader Don Dermutio was placed in the tender care of an inquisitor with the wonderfully Hogwartsian name of William Malefant.

According to McKnight, attendees included “a Turkish exchange student, an Anglican female priest,” and a dishwasher from Merge restaurant who sewed a Hogwartsian cape for himself out of a tablecloth.

To openly fantasize about the "fairy tale" (Calloway's word) of studying at a Hogwartsian institution where everyone's accent is pleasant is, as they would say in Cambridge, pretty cringe.

One overcast morning, a spring tease in the air, I hop the tube to King’s Cross Station, then walk a few hundred yards to the university’s Hogwartsian campus.