Cedric Diggory
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| Image:R studio cedricrobes.jpg Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. | |
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| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Print)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Film) |
Cedric Diggory (1977 – June 24, 1995), a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels, was the Hufflepuff Quidditch captain and Seeker through Harry's third year of school. Cedric's father is Amos Diggory, who works at the Ministry of Magic; his girlfriend was Cho Chang. Cedric has been described as "the strong, but silent type" and "extremely handsome"; as a character he showed a notable streak for modesty and fairness. He was a very good student and a Prefect for the Hufflepuff House. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he is played by Robert Pattinson. Cedric's wand is twelve and a quarter inches, made of ash wood, and contains a single hair from a male unicorn. Mr Ollivander describes it as 'pleasantly springy'.
The name Cedric means chief.
In Harry's third year, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cedric captained the Hufflepuff team which beat Gryffindor when Harry Potter fell off his broom.
His father Amos Diggory was extremely proud of Cedric for "defeating" Harry Potter, saying that the better man won, but Cedric was extremely embarrassed about his father's bragging. The Weasley twins, however, continue to harbor ill feelings towards Diggory for that defeat.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Cedric was selected to be the Hogwarts champion in the Triwizard Tournament. When Harry is mysteriously selected as well, Draco Malfoy makes Support Cedric Diggory badges for the Slytherins.
For the first task, Harry clued Cedric that their task involves dragons. During the task, he transfigured a rock into a dog which distracted his dragon, unfortunately mid-way his dragon lost interest in the dog and went after him instead. Cedric successfully retrieved his golden egg but received a burn on the cheek in the process. He later took Cho Chang to the Yule Ball as his date much to Harry's dismay.
Cedric, along with Moaning Myrtle, assists Harry in solving the clue of the second task of the Triwizard Tournament, by telling him to open the egg - a Triwizard clue from the first task - underwater in the Prefects' bathroom, in return for the help Harry had given him for the first task.
He was the second of the champions to reach the mer-village and successfully saved Cho, his hostage, using a bubblehead charm. He surfaced one minute over the one hour time limit earning him forty-seven points for the second task.
Cedric and Harry showed indignation at what was done to their Quidditch field which has tall hedges for the third task. During the third task, Harry saved Diggory's life twice while in the maze, and in the race for the cup, Cedric refused to take the cup without Harry, so they grasped it together. Image:Cedricpromo3-1-.jpg The cup turned out to be a portkey which transported them to Voldemort and his servant Wormtail. Wormtail murdered Diggory with the Avada Kedavra curse. Harry escaped and brought Cedric's body back to his parents.
Professor Pomona Sprout was chosen to comfort Amos and Mrs. Diggory, as she was Head of his House and knew him best. The Ministry of Magic instituted a coverup and publicly attributed Cedric's death to an "accident", which Harry and Dumbledore felt was an insult to his memory. At the year's end feast, Dumbledore revealed to the entire school that Cedric was murdered by Voldemort and stated that to attribute his death to an accident would be an injustice to Cedric. As a boy who was "good, and kind, and brave", he was the embodiment of all things Hufflepuff. Dumbledore ended the speech by saying "Remember Cedric Diggory". Many students had tears in their eyes when raising their goblets and echoing Dumbledore's words.
Diggory's death had a profound emotional impact on Harry; he felt survivor's guilt of having been spared initially while Cedric was killed outright, just because he had insisted that they should share the victory. He was reluctant to talk about Cedric's death and offered the reward money to Cedric's parents with the words "It should have been his..." Diggory's parents refused the money and thanked Harry for bringing their son's body back to them. The summer after his fourth year, Harry was haunted by Cedric's death and suffered every night from nightmares, but gradually began to overcome his grief in the following academic year.
Cedric's wand had a unicorn tail hair in it. It is remarked in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone that "Always the innocent are the first victims." The centaur Ronan was referring to unicorns, but he could also have been foreshadowing Cedric's murder.
It is commonly believed that J.K. Rowling borrowed Cedric's last name from Digory Kirke in C. S. Lewis's Narnia series, as he is said to be one of her favourite authors; although she has said she has not read all the Narnia books. [1]es:Cedric Diggory fr:Cedric Diggory it:Cedric Diggory ms:Cedric Diggory nl:Carlo Kannewasser ja:セドリック・ディゴリー pl:Cedrik Diggory pt:Cedrico Diggory zh:塞德里克·迪戈里