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.
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.
Accidental, but I’m willing to claim credit for it. It started as a portmanteau of Vassar and Herreshoff.
I’d always assumed it was related to Veres / Latin for truth.