Potteresque

— A young teen who reads Rowling’s books, for example, might seek a Potteresque type of excitement by joining the London-based Ordo Anno Mundi (OAM), a sect of occultists who practice Ophidian Witchcraft (i.e., serpent-venerating). Like Hogwarts, which takes its wizards through seven years of training, the OAM has seven degrees of “Magical Training” that include classes strikingly similar to those offered at Hogwarts: […]

— With ages ranging from an angelic 18 months old up to 11, there was a cluster of capes, a clutter of broomsticks – one or two Nimbus 2000s among them – and a veritable sea of Potter[-]esque glasses.

— Dennis Potter has now defeated this shabby scheme by exposing it, though we must not be too sure that he has actually done us a good turn, because in the next sentence he tells us that the whole dirty deal ‘is an understandable and sometimes legitimate one within the framework and momentum of gradualist and democratic Socialism’. This typically Potteresque method of stating the case leaves us in some doubt as to whether, overwhelmed by nausea, he is condemning the transaction, or whether he regards it as a necessary bit of business.

— The story is purely “Potteresque”: a morality tale in which the inescapable moral is neatly evaded. . . . Beatrix Potter’s tongue-in-cheek humor is still as fresh as it was in 1903.