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Rowling took time out from the Potter series to pen two books for this charity, both published in 2001. They’ve raked in over £20 million to date. They’re called Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The former comes with a glowing Foreword from the redoubtable Professor Dumbledore, who cites it as one of the most popular titles in Hogwarts library. Rowling has fun with the book, but on the back page reminds us that the charity she’s supporting is ‘even more important and astonishing than the three and a half second capture of the Golden Snitch by Roderick Plumpton in 1921’. Indeed. The US edition is priced in Sickles and Knuts.