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"I'm your man until the end, no matter how this plays out."

- Matthew Dean to Harry Potter just before the Battle of Hogwarts

Matthew T. Dean is a very famous wizard. He was born to wizarding parents but his mother is muggle-born so he is a half-blood.

Life at Hogwarts
He started to attend Hogwarts in 1991. Because of this, he was in the same year as Harry Potter. He was sorted into Ravenclaw House and entered the Common Room without a prefect on his first night. He befriended Hermione Granger on their first day and resented Ron Weasley's comment about her on Haloween that made her go to a girl's bathroom and cry, where she was attacked by a troll. Matthew alerted Harry and Ron of the danger and pointed out to them that it was because of Ron's remark that she was in there. He also helped the three of them chase down Quirinus Quirrell at the end of that year.

In his second year, Matthew was disgusted that Gilderoy Lockhart would be teaching DADA, having always considered him pompous. He barely escaped petrification later that year when he looked round a corner and saw the head of the Basilisk in a mirror. At the time the Basilisk was looking the other way