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* Chapter 3 features Bounce Boots ("Made with real [[Flubber]]!"), [[Dungeons and& Dragons|Knives +3! Forks +2! Spoons with a +4 bonus!]], [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|goggles that turn anything you look at green]], and cushy lounge chairs with ejection seats for emergencies (???). In later chapters as well, various potions come from ''D&D''.
* In chapter 6, Harry purchases [[Discworld|Rincewind's]] Luggage.
* In Chapter 7, [[A Very Potter Sequel|Harry is wearing an exercise band to hide his scar while he's on the train.]]
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* In Chapter 17, McGonagall discusses the recent disastrous employments of two Defense professors, [[Anita Blake|Professor Blake]] (who was caught with THREE fifteen-year-olds in a broom closet) and [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Professor Summers]] (who failed to teach material correct in the ''Harry Potter'' universe).
* In chapter 18 Harry examines a [[User Friendly|large dust ball with eyes and feet]] preserved in a jar.
* One evil individual mentioned in passing in chapter 19 is named Mornelithe Falconsbane, a reference to the dark wizard who is the main villain of [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s [[Heralds of Valdemar|''Mage Winds'' trilogy]].
* Quirrell mentions a list he made that is suspiciously similar to the [[Evil Overlord List]].
* In Chapter 20 we learn that mindflayers were exterminated by [[Harold Shea]]. This matches with the original making allusions with historical wizards.
* ''"[[Dune|Gom jabbar]]!"''
* And now -- to ''[[Death Note]]'', or should we say, ''Tragedy of Light''. And to ''[[Gargoyles]]''. Both of which are apparently children's stories in the Wizarding World, meant to teach young Slytherins about a cunning bussinessman named [[Trope Namer|Xanatos]].
* In chapter 23, Harry makes an analogy involving an invisible dragon that is taken almost verbatim from ''[[Carl Sagan|The Demon-Haunted World]]''.
* According to [[Word of God]], the line "And then Janet was a Squib" was not intended to be a reference to the last line of ''[[Doom: Repercussions of Evil]]'', but it's an amusing coincidence nevertheless.
* Chapter 27: [[The Demolished Man|Mr. Bester]] is the [[Babylon 5|Legilimens]] hired to train Harry. Harry creates an alternate persona in his mind to try to foil Bester's Legilimency; this persona is Kimball Kinnison of the ''[[Lensman]]'' series.
* And in Chapter 28, a nice reference to ''[[The Black Company]]''.
* In Chapter 29, an offhand comment is made about a girl who can magically turn her hair bright red (not orange, red) who, upon splashing her tea on herself, [[Ranma ½|briefly became a black-haired boy]].
* In Chapter 30, Harry wants to name his team [[Ender's Game|Dragon Army]], but Draco claims priority. So Harry goes with '[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Chaos Legion]]'. [[Warhammer 4000040,000|The]] [[Cthulhu Mythos|appropriate]] shout-outs are swift to follow.
* Also in Chapter 30, Dean gets excited at [[I Always Wanted to Say That|being able to say]], "[[Star Wars|Red Five standing by!]]"
* In the background only, but the wizard in the crowd in Diagon Alley in Chapter 32 wearing a formal top hat and bath-robes sounds suspiciously like ''[[Chrestomanci]]''.
* "[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Lagann]]" is the trigger word for the "Breaking Drill Hex" in Chapter 33.
* In Chapter 33, Harry, an army commander at the age of 11, [[Ender's Game|scolds his army for not abandoning their previous notations of gravity.]]
* In Chapter 35, Harry said he would evacuate all the wizards to Mars should a war break out between wizards and Muggles. Guess where the magic world in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima|Negima]]'' is.
* "[[Illuminatus|Imposition of order equals escalation of chaos.]]" The presence of, ultimately, a ''quintuple agent'' is probably a reference to the same work.
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* In Chapter 46, Harry gives Hermione a letter that contains the answer to a mysterious question. The reference, you ask? The wax seal on the letter is [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|inscribed with the number 42]].
* In Chapter 47, a reference to the founders of Hogwarts fighting [[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant|Lord Foul]].
* Also in Chapter 47, Harry extinguishes his light with the word ''dulak''; the typical word for extinguishing light is ''nox'', Harry instead used the word the Raistlin Majere used to darken the Staff of Magius in the [[Dragonlance]] series.
* To test {{spoiler|his Patronus,}} Draco sends Harry the message, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0377.html "beware the green monkey,"] which was "a sign from [[The Order of the Stick|a play Draco had once seen.]]"
* To the author's mother in chapter 49.
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* Also in chapter 54, Auror Li has a son named [[Bridge of Birds|Kao]].
* Chapter 57: ''"[[Evil Dead|All right, you primitive screwheads! Listen up!]]!"''
** Also the Dementors are referred to as [[Dungeons and& Dragons|spheres of annihilation.]]
* The prisoner saying "I'm not serious" is either a reference to ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy|The Dark Knight]]'', a hint about Sirius Black's current fate ("I'm not Sirius"), or both.
* Chapter 61: The [[wikipedia:The Eyes of the Overworld|Eye]] [[wikipedia:Eye of Vecna|of]] [[Jack Vance|Vance]]. Possibly [[Primer]] in the discussion of time travel.
* Chapter 62: ''[[The Dark Is Rising|Silver on the Tree]]'' alludes to the story of another 11-year-old English fantasy hero.
* Chapter 63: [[The Sundering|Urulat]], [[Ah! My Goddess|Verdandi]], [[The Princess Bride (film)|Iocane Powder]] (which, of course, is thought to be in one of two flasks), [[Idiot Ball|"Bahl's Stupefaction"]], the phrase [[College Roomies from HellCRFH|"Maximum Fun Location"]], Robot Unicorn Attack, and [[Return of the Jedi|"a furry creature like a small child, holding a peculiar flat spear"]]. (The small furry creature may be a [[Little Fuzzy|Fuzzy]] and not an [[Return of the Jedi|Ewok]]; the "peculiar flat spear" is more distinctive of Fuzzies than Ewoks.) And the [[Oh God Not Again|Salem Witches Academy of America]].
* Chapter 65: [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Peter Pevensie]] is a former student of Hogwarts.
* Chapter 67:
** "In the high reaches of Hogwarts where rooms and corridors changed on a daily basis, where the territory itself was uncertain and not just the [[wikipedia:Map%E2%80%93territory relation|map]],..."
** "We're the Grey Knights of [[Warhammer 4000040,000|Chaos]]," said Neville's voice.
** Hermione intends to emulate [[Superman]]. {{spoiler|It doesn't work as planned.}}
** Daphne Greengrass and Neville Longbottom basically summon [[Star Wars|lightsabers]]:
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** [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|"Khornath, Slaaneth, Nurgolth and Tzintchi"]] in the [[Black Speech|Dark Tongue]]
** [[Slayers|"Darkness beyond darkness, deeper than pitchest black. Buried beneath the flow of time,"]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|the Dragon Slave and Giga Slave]]]
** [[Fate/stay night|"Unknown to death, nor known to life"]] from Archer's Unlimited Blade Works chant.
** [[Dragonlance|"From darkness to darkness, your voice echoes in the emptiness."]]
** [[H.P. Lovecraft|"You who know the gate, who are the gate, the key and guardian of the gate"]]
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