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Normal_Anomaly comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 01 May 2012 01:02:48AM 14 points [-]

Does anyone else think it plausible that Harry's third last name, "Verres," comes from Mr. Verres in the webcomic El Goonish Shive? EGS Mr. Verres is a government scientist with a bespectacled semi-magical mad scientist son, and pretty much everything else in MOR is a shout-out.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 May 2012 02:00:11AM 16 points [-]

Accidental, but I'm willing to claim credit for it. It started as a portmanteau of Vassar and Herreshoff.

Comment author: CAE_Jones 13 December 2012 10:50:23AM 2 points [-]

I'd always assumed it was related to Veres / Latin for truth.

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