Literary references, etc.

[englishmajor26]

No: HPFGUIDX 32521

(Newbie.)

I'd like to know if anyone has found any interesting / unusual 
literary references in the HP books -- for example, I had to laugh 
when Hermione turned to stone in Chamber of Secrets -- it seemed to 
me like a miniscule nod to Shakespeare's <I>The Winter's Tale</I> in 
which a character named Hermione is somehow resurrected after dying 
and then having her likeness made into a stone statue. 

I was wondering if anyone else had caught any references like this. I 
do catch them occasionally, but I forget to mark them in the books.

"englishmajor26"