Finley is a boy with a good imagination. When he is faced with a choice whether to do something wrong or not, he asks himself the question: "Am I that crazy or not?"
More often than not, he decides that after all, he is crazy enough, and therefore creates all sorts of harmless, but still pranks.
For example, one day he took a broom, dipped it in a puddle and splashed mud on the wall of their small house all the way to the attic. When his parents and grandmother later asked him why he did it, Finley could not give an exact answer.
Nevertheless, he does not wish harm to anyone.
However, as active as Finley is, he is also garrulous. If someone touches on a topic that is particularly interesting to Finley, then he can cut into the conversation and develop this topic for hours, sometimes without even realizing that he is saying something a second time. However, he often expresses himself quite figuratively and vaguely, which is why it is difficult to understand him. Moreover, the boy stutters at times when his brain does not keep up with the language, so conversations with him can take a very long time.
Finley believes in mysticism. However, this is not the bestiary that exists in the world of magic. He is more interested in the phantoms that our brain draws, for example, in the dark, and he is sure that someday he will find a way to see them. Perhaps he even has a theory about their existence, but so far it looks like a simple child's fiction.

Finley's grandfather was a magician and, when he was young, fell in love with a simple girl who knew nothing at all about the world of magic. Then he began to hide his affiliation with wizards from her. They got married, and soon Finley's father was born. When he accidentally used magic for the first time, it was in front of Grandma, so Grandpa had to tell. Of course, Grandpa was rudely scolded for lying, but grandma tried to understand the world of magic and the belonging of the two most important men in her life to it.
Grandfather died when Finley's father was only fifteen years old. His death was an accident — he confused the bottles with potions, and there was no bezoar nearby in time. Grandma has always been an authoritarian woman with a heavy hand, and she was the head of the family, so after her husband's death, she realized that she did not want to lose her son as well. Thus, Finley's father was forever next to his grandmother, because he could not say a word across.
When they were fighting, the whole house shook. When father turned twenty-five, in a fit of rebellion, he suddenly announced to his mother that he had decided to marry his former classmate from Hogwarts and, unexpectedly for everyone, his grandmother agreed with her son's choice. True, she tried in every possible way to force the bride herself to leave their house, but the chosen one turned out to be strong in spirit, so she withstood the influx of grandmother's dislike, and even received respect from her.
And so, Finley was born. Grandma was categorically against his parents moving away from her, so the whole family lived in a small country house. However, it was not completely clear whether Finley inherited magic or was born a squib. So they lived like an ordinary family, Finley went to kindergarten and then to school and didn't know anything about magic.

When Finley was eight years old, a neighbor came to his father, accusing Finley of breaking the window of her house. Since the boy had just done a couple of pranks at home, and his father had not yet had time to get over his anger, he sent Finley to his room and closed the door, Telling him to think about his behavior. The problem was that this time it wasn't Finley who broke the window, he wasn't in the habit of throwing stones at all. He tried to tell his father about it, but he wouldn't listen. They quarreled even more. From resentment and anger, all red and crying, Finley thought that his head would light up, but then the glass insert in the door simply crumbled in front of his astonished father. Now Finley could go, but he didn't understand what had just happened.

Of course, at first the whole family was glad that Finley turned out to be a magician after all. That's when the boy was told all about the world of magic.