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Just tons. For example, Harry's instructor, Mr. Bester, is a double reference.
EDIT: And obviously the Bester scenes contain other allusions: back to the gold-silver arbitrage, or Harry imaging himself a Lensman, come to mind.
What's the non-author one?
Babylon Five character, IIRC.
I wouldn't call that a double reference since Alfred Bester the Babylon 5 character is also named after Alfred Bester the author. Edit: Both the Bab 5 and HP:MoR characters are named after Bester the author for the same reason.
Since Eliezer has been a Babylon 5 fan since before December 1996 and has also read Bester's books, I think we can consider it a double reference.
Yeah, we're just using different definitions of "double reference". Cheers!
But Alfred Bester the author wasn't a telepath.
Or was he?!?!?!
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There's probably hundreds by this point; if you want even more, Eliezer stuffs his Ultimate Cross-over fic with references.
Really, I only caught the B5 one.