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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 (Literature)|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 13, one of the notes written to Harry by the Game Controller is a reference to [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]: "Ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking."

* 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]].

* And now -- to ''[[Death Note (Manga)|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 (Literature)|Mr. Bester]] is the [[Babylon Five5|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.

* 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 One Half½|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 40 K,000|The]] [[Cthulhu Mythos|appropriate]] shout-outs are swift to follow.

* 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.]]

* 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 (Webcomic)|a play Draco had once seen.]]"

* From the same chapter: Harry read a book called ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_:Speak %26_Spell_26 Spell (toy) |Spell and Speak]]''.

* From the same chapter: [[South Park|Tenorman's family chili]] and [[Soylent Green (Film)|green lentil soup]] (served with [[A Glass of Chianti|a glass of]] ''[[The Silence of the Lambs|Chianti]]'', natch).

{{quote| "I am going to be in Ravenclaw. And if you really think that I'm planning to do something dangerous, then, with respect, you don't understand me at all. I don't like danger, it is scary. I am being prudent. I am being cautious. I am preparing for unforeseen contingencies. Like my parents used to sing to me: Be prepared! That's the Boy Scout's marching song! Be prepared! As through life you march along! Don't be nervous, don't be flustered, don't be scared -- be prepared!" (Harry's parents had in fact only ever sung him those particular lines of that Tom Lehrer song, and Harry was blissfully unaware of the rest.)}}

* Chapter 51: Mary's Room, where Harry and Professor Quirrell have been having lunch, is in [[CallahansCallahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Mary's Place, owned by "Jake".]] Also a reference to the thought experiment [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Marys_room:Marys room|"Mary's room"]].

** Also the Dementors are referred to as [[Dungeons and& Dragons|spheres of annihilation.]]

* Chapter 61: The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eyes_of_the_Overworld:The Eyes of the Overworld|Eye]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Vecna:Eye of Vecna|of]] [[Jack Vance (Creator)|Vance]]. Possibly [[Primer]] in the discussion of time travel.

* Chapter 63: [[The Sundering|Urulat]], [[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Verdandi]], [[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|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]].

** "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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Map%E2%80%93territory_relation93territory relation|map]],..."

** "We're the Grey Knights of [[Warhammer 4000040,000|Chaos]]," said Neville's voice.

{{quote| And finally she grasped her wand in both hands and shrieked, "''Lucis Gladius''!"}}

** The incantation for the above spell can be translated as "Thunder! [[He -Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe|Gray skull]]! Sword of light!"

* In chapter 70, former students named [[Vorkosigan Saga|Miles Naismith]] and [[Enchanted Forest Chronicles|Cimorene Linderwall]] are mentioned, as is an evil "Professor [[Barney and Friends (TV)|Barney]]."<ref>[[Word of God]] confirms that it's a reference to the demonic "[[Dark Fic|Jihad to Destroy Barney]]" version.</ref>

** [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|"Acathla, mundatus sum"]]

** [[Hellraiser (Film)|"Lemarchand, Lament, Lemarchand"]]

** [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|"Khornath, Slaaneth, Nurgolth and Tzintchi"]] in the [[Black Speech|Dark Tongue]]

** [[Slayers (Anime)|"Darkness beyond darkness, deeper than pitchest black. Buried beneath the flow of time,"]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|the Dragon Slave and Giga Slave]]]

** [[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight|"Unknown to death, nor known to life"]] from Archer's Unlimited Blade Works chant.

** [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|"You who know the gate, who are the gate, the key and guardian of the gate"]]

** [[Beetlejuice (Film)|The triple-repetition of a name to summon the person named.]]

* Chapter 75 has a character describe Hermione and Harry's relationship as being like a play she saw whose plot matches the webcomic ''[[Ow My Sanity (Webcomic)|Ow, My Sanity]]''.

** "...distant voices crying [[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Literature)|'Tekeli-li!']] [[At the Mountains of Madness (Literature)|'Tekeli-li!']]"

* Chapter 79 has {{spoiler|fake?}} Quirrell claming to have been in [[Fate /Zero (Light Novel)|Fuyuki City in 1983.]]

* Chapter 85 has Harry's internal monologue explicitly quote characters from [[Book of Amber|the Chronicles of Amber]], [[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]], and [[John M. Ford|Web of Angels]].

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