Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cedric Diggory
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Cedric Diggory | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Dark |
| Eye color | Grey |
| Related Family | father Amos Diggory |
| Loyalty | Hogwarts |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Cedric Diggory is Seeker and Captain of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team.
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] Prisoner of Azkaban
Cedric Diggory, here a fifth-year student, is introduced as "the new Captain of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team", as he was competing against Gryffindor in the first match of the inter-house Quidditch championship. He caught the Snitch to win after the arrival of Dementors on the field. Believing that he had won by making inadvertent use of an unfair advantage, he requested that the game be replayed, but was overruled by Oliver Wood, the Gryffindor Quidditch captain, and the teachers.
[edit] Goblet of Fire
We meet Cedric briefly at the beginning of the book, with his father, as they journey to the Quidditch World championships. Later, Cedric is chosen as a contestant in the Triwizard Tournament. Much of the book centers around the ongoing competition between him and Harry Potter, both in the Championship and for the affections of Cho Chang, throughout the course of the year. He and Harry tie in the last round, and grab the "trophy" together. The trophy had however been made into a portkey by allies of Lord Voldemort. He and Harry were transported to a graveyard, where Cedric was killed by Wormtail, one of Voldemort's Death Eaters. An image of Cedric later assists in distracting a re-created Voldemort long enough to allow Harry to make good his escape, carrying Cedric's body. Cedric's parents feel that they cannot take Cedric's share of the prize money, and give it to Harry.
[edit] Order of the Phoenix
While Cedric cannot, of course, be present, he is mentioned several times during the course of the book, largely as part of Cho Chang's ongoing mourning for him.
[edit] Strengths
A very athletic and handsome young man, Cedric is what many boys Harry's age want to be. He has many friends, and is honourable and trustworthy.
[edit] Weaknesses
[edit] Relationships with Other Characters
He always deals fairly with Harry, even when they are directly in competition with each other in the Tri-Wizard Tournament; Harry decides that the only honest thing to do is to give Cedric as much information as the other competitors have about the first trial, and in return, Cedric gives Harry the key to the second trial. As mentioned above, when he feels that he has won the Quidditch match against Gryffindor by means of an unfair advantage, he demands a rematch.
In part because Harry is slow getting off the mark, Cedric takes Cho Chang to the Yule Ball in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; this marks the start of what ends up being a pretty serious romance between Cho and Cedric, much to Harry's dismay. This romance continues until Cedric's death at the end of the book.
[edit] Analysis
It is interesting perhaps that Cedric's father Amos Diggory seems to be trying to create a sense of competition where none exists – casting Cedric's win over Gryffindor at Quidditch as a great victory when Cedric would rather put it entirely down to luck, and making rather more of the competition between Harry and Cedric in the Tri-Wizard Tournament than Cedric or Harry is comfortable with. One can perhaps see this as the all-too-common tendency for fathers to live their lives through their childrens' accomplishments.
