Marcus attended Hogwarts.
- Education Notes
- Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team during Harry Potter's first three years at Hogwart.
Marcus Flint is a sixth year student in Harry's first year and is still in school two years later when he should have already finished school. Author J.K. Rowling explained this away by saying that he failed his exams[1]. In later printings of the first book, however, he is a Fifth Year. Explanation notwithstanding, Harry Potter fans have taken to calling minor textual errors in the series "flints," after this particular mistake.