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* Chapter 3 features Bounce Boots ("Made with real [[Flubber]]!"), [[Dungeons
* 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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* 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
* 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
* 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 [[
* 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
** 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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