Eliezer has said that he’s giving a pass to any science in the story, but I don’t think he’s applied that policy to all fiction Harry has consumed. In the Azkaban break, Eliezer noted that Harry was quoting from the trailer of a movie (Army of Darkness,) which hadn’t been released yet, and in the tvtropes discussion thread, he attested that he had checked the chronology of the trailer.
Eliezer has said that he’s giving a pass to any science in the story, but I don’t think he’s applied that policy to all fiction Harry has consumed. In the Azkaban break, Eliezer noted that Harry was quoting from the trailer of a movie (Army of Darkness,) which hadn’t been released yet, and in the tvtropes discussion thread, he attested that he had checked the chronology of the trailer.