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** A lot of Harry Potter products, like pumpkin juice and butterbeer, got their own official defictionalizations with the opening of the Wizarding World parks around the world.

*** Butterbeer is also a popular choice of drink at Alamo Drafthouse theaters.

*** J.K. Rowling may have come up with the fictional recipe, but [[Older Than They Think|a real drink called butterbeer has been around for ages]].

*** [[J. K. Rowling]] may have come up with the fictional recipe, but [[Older Than They Think|a real drink called butterbeer has been around for ages]].

** With the launch of Pottermore, you can now be officially sorted into a Hogwarts House by a questionnaire designed by JK Rowling herself.

** With the launch of Pottermore, you can now be officially sorted into a Hogwarts House by a questionnaire designed by J. K. Rowling herself.

** ''Spellcasting'' with an Ollivander wand has been defictionalized, at least to a limited degree in the Universal parks. Buy a special wand with an infrared reflector on its tip, and at certain locations in the parks, specific wand movements will trigger special effects.

* A few things in ''[[Discworld]]'' had since been turned into actual products. These include the ''Where's My Cow?'' children's book, and various badges (City Watch, Guilds, [[Überwald]] Blood Donor Group...)

* A few things in ''[[Discworld]]'' had since been turned into actual products. These include the ''[[Where's My Cow?]]'' children's book, and various badges (City Watch, Guilds, [[Überwald]] Blood Donor Group...)

** The stamps introduced in ''[[~~Discworld/~~Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', and mentioned in later books. Which now exist, complete with sports, rare limited editions and a quarterly magazine for "flatalists".

** The stamps introduced in ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', and mentioned in later books. Which now exist, complete with sports, rare limited editions and a quarterly magazine for "flatalists".

** Pterry mentioned an example himself in the Author's Note to ''Wintersmith'': a group of fans who danced the Dark Morris for him in Chicago.

** Pterry mentioned an example himself in the Author's Note to ''[[Wintersmith]]'': a group of fans who danced the Dark Morris for him in Chicago.

** The card game ''Cripple Mr. Onion'' has been turned into a playable game by fans. Several times over, in fact, because the rules seen in the books are vague enough to allow for a lot of interpretation.

** You can also buy Nanny Ogg's Cookbook. Not entirely defictionalization, as this is not the same book as the one she wrote in ''Maskerade'', which was called ''The Joye of Snackes''.

** You can also buy ''Nanny Ogg's Cookbook''. Not entirely defictionalization, as this is not the same book as the one she wrote in ''[[Maskerade]]'', which was called ''The Joye of Snackes''.

** You can get the ''Thud'' game. Thud was based on real life Tafl Games, although the rules ''were'' altered a bit. And the game appeared in real life first and ''then'' got added to the books.

** You can get the ''[[Thud!]]'' game. Thud was based on real life Tafl Games, although the rules ''were'' altered a bit. And the game appeared in real life first and ''then'' got added to the books.

* Around the time the movie adaptation of John Irving's novel ''A Widow For A Year'' came out, the children's book ''A Sound Like Trying Not to Make a Sound'' (featured in the novel and the movie) was published for real.

* A George Orwell essay describing the "Moon Under Water", his idea of a perfect British pub, inspired (at least in theory) the creation of the J.D. Wetherspoon chain. Many Wetherspoon's pubs are indeed called the Moon Under Water.