Justin Finch-Fletchley

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This article is about **the muggle-born Hufflepuff in Harry's year**. You may be looking for **somebody else named *Justin***.

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

* Duelling Club
* Dumbledore's Army

**Justin Finch-Fletchley** is a canonical muggleborn wizard and Hogwarts student in Harry's year; he was a member of Dumbledore's Army but it is not known if he participated in the Battle of Hogwarts (or, indeed, if he survived the war).

## Canonical information

Main article: **Justin Finch-Fletchley** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Justin likely came from an upper-class family; if not for his Hogwarts letter, he would have gone to Eton.

In his second year, he was quite impressed by Gilderoy Lockhart and participated in his Dueling Club meeting on 17 December, where he was initially paired with Neville Longbottom to practice the Disarming Charm; later, the serpent conjured by Draco Malfoy was about to attack him until Harry commanded it not to in Parseltongue – at which point Justin, already suspicious of Harry, thought the latter had instead encouraged the snake, and ran off. The very next day he was petrified by the basilisk (by seeing it through Nearly Headless Nick) and so he spent most of the rest of the school year in the Hospital Wing before finally being cured with the Mandrake Restorative Draught on 29 May; when he heard of Harry killing the basilisk he apologized profusely – in public – for his previous suspicions and rumourmongering, and after this they were friends except for a short while during their fourth year when Justin blamed Harry for "trying to steal" the glory that rightfully belonged to Cedric Diggory as the Hogwarts Triwizard Champion. Despite missing most of a term, there is no indication that he had to retake the year or had problems keeping up with his fellow students.

As a muggle-born, Justin was not allowed to attend Hogwarts during the 1997/98 school year; it is not known if he was persecuted and sentenced by the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, went on the run from Snatchers, went into hiding with his family, or simply left Britain.

## Non-canonical information

### *A Godfather's Promise*

In this AU story, where Harry was raised by Sirius, he and Justin attended the same grade school – although they didn't actually interact before meeting at Hogwarts – and after the events of their second year Justin introduced Harry to his Eton-attending friends (among them Arnold). Given that Harry grew up in Reading, Berkshire, it seems likely that Justin, and perhaps his friends as well, also come from that area.

### Minor appearances

* In *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, the DMLE are informed about the petrification incidents and the opening of the Chamber of Secrets during the 1992/93 Christmas break; they call in Unspeakables who solve the mystery quickly and are able to supply their own Mandrake Restorative Draught without waiting for the Hogwarts greenhouses to grow mandrakes from seeds, and so Justin and Colin Creevey are restored before the Spring term starts.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 22
3. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 3
4. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 20