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* In the ''[[Time Warp Trio]]'', the three titular kids sometimes meet up with their granddaughters, who are both [[Kid From the Future|kids from the future]] and [[Distaff Counterpart|Distaff Counterparts]] of themselves. Their granddaughters explain that they're wealthy because in their near future, the boys experience an accident involving a bowl of cereal that leads to them inadvertently discovering anti-gravity technology. They don't want to explain just how this happens, so as not to cause a paradox. But it causes them to wonder -- how the hell could cereal and antigravity possibly be related?!

* In the third book of ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]],'' ''Ptolemy's Gate'', the djinni Bartimaeus mentions twice the Case of the Anarchist and the Oyster that he helped his master Nathaniel solve. Upon bringing it up, Nathaniel winces and tells Bartimaeus to please not talk about it. This is possibly also a [[Rule of Three]] situation, since the Anarchist and the Oyster is the third of three such situations, the first two being the plots of the two previous books.

* ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'' is littered with these; you can't go more than a half-dozen pages before the author mentions that such-and-such a character did x, y, or z, then adds, "But that's another story and shall be told another time." It became a plot point later on -- Bastian nearly couldn't leave Fantastica because he had to finish all those stories.

* ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'' is littered with these; you can't go more than a half-dozen pages before the author mentions that such-and-such a character did x, y, or z, then adds, "But that's another story and shall be told another time." It became a plot point later on -- Bastian nearly couldn't leave Fantastica because he had to finish all those stories. Also, this may fit in well with the novel's overall Aesop (and the meaning behind the title), that everyone within a story has a story of his own, and those who explore them will find ''every'' story to be a true Neverending Story.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is likewise full of those. Mostly it's in the form of books mentioned, of which three (''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'', ''Quidditch Through the Ages'', and ''Tales of Beedle the Bard'') are actually made -- but there are many which aren't, such as Hermione's favorite go-to, ''Hogwarts: A History''. There are goblin uprisings, house-elf history, and all those creatures -- even vampires, [[Our Vampires Are Different|which judging by HBP are not openly hostile]].

** Also a nice twist and version with Grindelwald. When in first book we hear that "Dumbledore... is famous for his victory over the dark wizard Grindelwald", we imagine it being a simple story -- that no one could beat Grindelwald, until young Dumbledore duelled the Dark wizard to the death and killed him. In the last book it is revealed that the story is [[Ho Yay|much]] [[Downer Ending|more]] [[Heroic BSOD|complicated]]...