Hello! I’m confused about Copyright rules and need help with pop-culture references in my story. I want to reference Harry Potter in my story, so I’m calling it “Harry Porter” - is this too close? And, I want to include a few short lines from the book (which I’m editing so they’re not exactly the same.) I feel like brands are just so confusing so if anyone has had experience with referencing books/movies etc please let me know!
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Harry Potter might work as Harly Porter
And for the book references, Don’t reference any more than 5 lines of the book. For songs, u can’t include more than 5 lines of the song so I’d assume books are the same (:
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Yeah I’d assume so, right? Harly Porter hahah, thanks for the suggestion
Your welcome 
To be safe, switch at least two of the characters in the name.
Here’s what I’ve come across: Taylor Swift becomes Saylor Twift.
As for the reference, keep it short and simple. Considering Harry Potter is quite established, a line or two is fine, but don’t copy the entire paragraph unless you want trouble.