Quidditch Through the Ages to Find Them" have raised £17 million. In 2001, Rowling penned two companion books to the "Harry Potter series", "Quidditch Through the Ages" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", for British charity and offshoot of Live Aid, Comic Relief with all of her royalties going to the charity. As of July 2008, the books combined are estimated to have earned over $30 million for Comic Relief. The two books have since been made available in hardcover. Within the fictional world of "Harry Potter", "Quidditch Through the Ages" is written by Kennilworthy Whisp, a renowned Quidditch expert. In both
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets seven books had been published, Graeme Davis regarded "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" as the weakest of the series, and agreed that the plot structure is much the same as in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". He described Fawkes's appearance to arm Harry and then to heal him as a "deus ex machina": he said that the book does not explain how Fawkes knew where to find Harry; and Fawkes's timing had to be very precise, as arriving earlier would probably have prevented the battle with the basilisk, while arriving later would have been fatal to Harry