Totally unrelated, but I wanted to mention somewhere (and didn’t think it worth making a new comment) that I laughed harder at “I once arrested a young Japanese who tried a similar trick. He found out the hard way that his shadow replica technique was no match for this eye of mine.” than I have at anything in recent memory. (It is a Naruto reference.)
Considering that Eliezer says in the notes that he “regret[s] that [he] could not come up with any reasonable way to have Harry shout ‘Temporal fugue!’ or ‘Kage bunshin no jutsu!’ before attacking”, this is almost certainly a Naruto reference.
Considering that Eliezer says in the notes that he “regret[s] that [he] could not come up with any reasonable way to have Harry shout ‘Temporal fugue!’ or ‘Kage bunshin no jutsu!’ before attacking”, this is almost certainly a Naruto reference.