Diana Cavendish/Plot

==Movies==
===Background===
Diana is born into a family of aristocrat magic users. While much of her backstory is not shown, she nonetheless attended the very Shiny Chariot show Akko went into in her youth, which inspired her to become a witch. However, their common idol's bad reputation in the eyes of conservative magical families forced her to keep her admiration towards Shiny Chariot a secret. This didn't help by the fact that Shiny Chariot's own methods to inspire people admittedly left much to be desired in some respects (failing to leave lasting positive impact outside inspiring her and Akko), the only thing she agreed with.
===Little Witch Academia===
Years later, Diana attends Luna Nova but mocks Akko for liking Shiny Chariot. She demonstrates her magic skill by vaporizing a dungeon monster.
In her arrogance, she opens a cursed iron maiden and releases an ancient dragon that grows stronger by devouring magic spells. After being humbled, she attempts to evacuate the other students. She later saves Akko from falling to her death by catching her. Akko suspects Diana knows more about Chariot then she lets on, which she hurriedly denies.
===Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade===
Diana saves a classroom from being devoured by a mushroom monster, created by Sucy and Akko's ingredients, with a nullification spell. Diana continues her cold demeanor and mocks Akko's parade plans. She later gloats about how Akko's plan fell through after Sucy and Lotte abandon her, but unwittingly gives Akko the idea to use the Shiny Rod as a magic battery for the parade.
She later works together with Akko and Amanda to keep the Shiny Rod out of the Titan's hands, expressing relief that Akko is safe and gives begrudging approval of Akko's performance.
==TV Series==
===Background===
A descendant from a long line of aristocrat witches, Diana demonstrates high aptitude for magic at a young age. From a young age, she had a great admiration for Shiny Chariot, but because of Chariot's bad reputation in the magical world, she kept her admiration of Chariot secret and didn't attend any of her shows. However, her mother arranged things so she could go secretly to one of her shows in Japan, the same show as Akko attend. Diana was enchanted by the show, and developed a great passion for magic. However, due to the Dream Fuel Spirit that Chariot used on the show which in turn, part of Croix's Dream Fuel Spirit Plan, Diana lost her ability to use magic. However, she did not give up and tried daily to regain her skills, which she finally achieved.
Diana's parents died while she was young. Before dying, Diana's mother, Bernadette, told her stories about the Olde Witch Beatrix Cavendish and expressed her wish that she could create a new future for magic.
While growing up, Diana had to face the expectations of being the heiress of the House of Cavendish, which led her to abandon her dreams as a child and put aside her admiration for Shiny Chariot. However, she still decided to attend Luna Nova Academy because it was the school Chariot attended.
===Season 1A===
====A New Beginning====
Diana first appears during the opening ceremony of the academy with Hannah and Barbara. Though not shown, it's safe to assume that she's among those who surprised by Akko, Lotte, and Sucy's unexpected entrance via. a Ley Line portal right at the center of auditorium.
====Pappiliodya====
Diana is shown expertly translating the passage on the board written in Luna Alphabet during Finnelan's class, much to the awe of her fellow students. She later nonchalantly uses Object Control Magic to dispel the fume from ominous-looking potion Lukić brew as part of her lecture and even corrects Badcock who made a mistake in the middle of her lecture.
====Don't Stop Me Now====
====Luna Nova and the White Dragon====
====The Fountain of Polaris====
Diana is among students who present as everyone expect Hanbridges' arrival. Unlike her peers who quick to enamored by Andrew's handsomeness, Diana is visibly unamused. Nevertheless, she later volunteers to be Andrew's guide as she shows him and Frank around Luna Nova.
===Season 1B===
==Mangas==
===Teri Terio Manga===
===Keisuke Satō Manga===
====Chapter 2====
Diana first appears during the opening ceremony of the academy with Hannah and Barbara. Here, she is confirmed to be among those who surprised by Akko, Lotte, and Sucy's unexpected entrance via. a Ley Line portal right at the center of auditorium.
====Chapter 3====
Upon hearing Akko complaining over Luna Nova's seemingly dull classes at the cafeteria contrary to how spectacular the magic Shiny Chariot performed in her show was, Diana tells Akko that Shiny Chariot is not worth to look up to for being labelled as a heretic by her own community. Irritated, Akko argues that Shiny Chariot didn't do anything wrong with her magic, let alone as awful as she believed to be. As their argument escalates thanks to Hannah, Barbara, and even Sucy's snide remarks, Ursula, who overhears the whole thing, steps in and suggests that they should settle their dispute through volleyball instead.
At the courtyard, Diana, Hannah, and Barbara are joined by Sarah Bernhardt, Mary, and Alice. Before they begin the match's first round, Akko tells Diana to take her negative opinions about Chariot back should her team loses, and the latter seemingly begrudgingly agrees. When the first round commences, Diana suggests her teammates to use magic in response of Amanda using such tactic first, giving them an edge throughout a match. Unlike Hannah and Barbara who bother to insult the opposing team, Diana remains indifferent, being above such lowly act.
In the end, Diana's team wins the volleyball match. Rather than being victorious, Diana finds it worthwhile from seeing how determined Akko was in defending her idol (which helped by her admiring Shiny Chariot as much as the Japanese witch-in-training deep down even now) but keep the discovery to herself from Hannah and Barbara since they won't likely agree.
====Chapter 5====
Diana is studying about Nine Olde Witches when the tea she ordered tastes different than her usual one. As if it is shocking enough, she is soon taken aback by the sight of Akko in maid outfit explaining the tea being Japanese Plum one. Diana is unamused by Akko's explanation where she took a part-time job given to her by a goblin staffer due to her no longer receiving her monthly allowance, in which Diana deduces is in response to her poor grades. The unimpressed Diana then states she will ask for Akko to be revoked of her services due to her not being competent enough about room maintenance, only for Akko to beg against it and finally tells the reason why she took the job in the first place: She wanted to make a birthday party for Sucy in spite of her indifference to birthdays. Diana tells Akko that she is taking the birthday matter too seriously, and tells her that it's not about money, but rather the sentiment. This gives Akko a better idea as she abruptly leaves the room, startling Hannah and Barbara who just arrived. Hilariously, unbeknownst to Akko, Diana comes to like her Japanese Plum tea.
====Chapter 6====
Diana's study for upcoming topics in the next day lessons are interrupted by Hannah and Barbara who complain over their malfunctioning shower which soon followed by a blackout. Imploring her roommates to get dressed, the Cavendish sets out to find the professors while guiding her peers in their tasks which hampered by abrupt lack of magic energy in the academy. It is when reaching the headmistress' office the Cavendish sees Holbrooke, Lukić, and Badcock depart to settle their debt with some dragon, leaving her puzzled.
Later, Diana reports to Finnelan that she had the students handling menial labors in the behalf of the academy's faery custodians. Noticing the scroll the strict professor attempted to decipher to no avail, the Cavendish expressed her familiarity with its language, much to he former's surprise.
Having properly deciphered the contract, Diana and Finnelan waste no time to share their discovery to everyone at Fafnir's residence. To their further surprise, she reveals that paying the interest was never part of it in the first place, which means it was Fafnir who abused the deal since he believed none of the staff can decipher it to begin with. Before Fafnir an argue further, Diana points out that the sum of the payments through contract between them far exceeded the principal sum of the initial debt, but Luna Nova will provide him the proper documentation about the refunding of the over-payment nevertheless. As such, Fafnir had to return the academy's Sorcerer's Stone at once with his treachery now exposed.
====Chapter 7====
Diana is less than thrilled by the professors' request to help Ursula teaching Akko in her private lessons, a sentiment shared by Akko herself. She even thinks Ursula doted her student too much hence the Japanese witch-in-training's lack of meaningful progress. When Akko attempts to perform Metamorphosis Magic with Shiny Rod, Diana demonstrates how it should be done by turning her into a rat before checking on the Rod and erroneously concludes it to be one of the ubiquitously made replicas before leaving, too annoyed to remember to change Akko back beforehand until she met a goblin janitor who claimed to have tossed some vermin into a leaving garbage truck and stumbled upon Shiny Rod nearby at the same time.
Realizing her mistake, Diana sets out to find Akko at Blytonbury, assuming the form of a white weasel to make her search easier. Though she manages to find Akko, the Cavendish unexpectedly caused a misunderstanding and panic among a community of rats where the Japanese witch-in-training ended up at as her animal form closely matches the so-called white demon mentioned by Hope. Fortunately, upon recognizing Diana, Akko clears things out and even has Diana tags along in it. With the issue taken cared of, the two return to Luna Nova.
As Ursula reassures Akko that Shiny Rod is hers and she supposedly able to make it through the upcoming exam, Diana reminds Akko about important thing she learned from Hope earlier (being successful with her own efforts), which the latter begrudgingly agrees.
====Chapter 9====
Diana is among students who present as everyone expect Hanbridges' arrival. Unlike her peers who quick to enamored by Andrew's handsomeness, Diana is visibly unamused. Nevertheless, she later volunteers to be Andrew's guide as she shows him and Frank around Luna Nova.
The tour takes a somewhat sour turn (at least for Frank) because of the revelation of Diana and Andrew had argued about magic's future for quite a while and that the latter seemingly concludes that his father's view about it might be genuine. This doesn't help by Andrew brings up how mundane children wary of Diana because of her focus on her magical studies when they were young just as Diana points out he was too distracted by the girls around him to notice their significance. Before long, Diana and Frank get separated from Andrew because of the latter's unexpected predicament with Akko.
====Chapter 10====
Diana indignantly explains to Hannah and Barbara who don't take the news of Akko saving a group of endangered fishes from poachers during circumstances which supposedly warranted her expulsion from Luna Nova very well that there's no guarantee predictions will be like what one hopes to be. Although it means the two had listened her too unquestioningly to her liking, the Cavendish nonetheless had a feeling her prediction will come too pass one way or another.
====Chapter 11.5====
Upon learning that cafeteria features a limited edition dessert which supposedly baked by a famed patissier from the capital, Diana wastes no time to get hers and compete with her friends, going so far riding a magic broom not unlike Amanda (she reprimands Amanda from pulling such stunt in far reckless manner nonetheless). Unfortunately, because of their rowdy competition, they receive an earful from Finnelan for it.
====Chapter 12====
When the chaos breaks out at the dormitory were red and green teams' dorm room situated at, Diana, accompanied by Hannah and Barbara barge in to see what happen. Unfortunately, Jasminka's hunger faery unceremoniously eats her, much to her roommates' horror and Akko and co.'s chagrin. She, along with other students who got devoured, are later safely reguritated by the fairy after Akko force-feeds it with her pickle plums.
====Chapter 14====
Diana is attending the class as usual on the same day Annabel Crème the 12th visits Luna Nova for inspirations. However, she appears to be unwell, much to the concern of her classmates. True to this, when Barbara finally opens up about her passion for Night Fall series, Diana collapses from Burning Sickness, much to their horror.
====Chapter 15====
Despite her illness, Diana insists to participate only for Finnelan implores her not to for her sake.
====Chapter 16====
Diana is grateful by efforts Hannah, Barbara, Lotte, and Sucy made in making the cure for her ailment. But her relief is short-lived upon learning Akko's unexpected participation in the ongoing interschool broom race and, knowing that the Japanese witch-in-training might bitten more than she could chew and putting Luna Nova's reputation at the stake, makes haste to join the event with Hannah and Barbara following her from behind. Sure enough, she arrives in time to save Akko from falling due to intimidated by Miraj who attempts to claim Shiny Rod for herself.
====Chapter 17====
True to her fears, the interschool broom race indeed goes out of hand because of Miraj both stole Shiny Rod and endangered Akko's life. Putting aside Akko's doubts about Sucy's role in restoring her back to full health, Diana agrees to Amanda who just arrived that the race must go on; questionable it might be, the Cavendish had to interfere the race as she cannot condone thievery which is far worse. Undaunted, Miraj challenges Diana and Akko to take Shiny Rod back from her by force.
Miraj attempts to use the Shiny Rod on Diana and Akko when the Cavendish proves herself no pushover in moving past Slalom Ruins even while carrying the Japanese witch-in-training at the same time, but the Rod is unresponsive in her grasp. So, she tosses Shiny Rod aside leading to Akko almost plummeting to the ground far below again in retrieving it. Diana promptly catches Akko again and gets mocked by Miraj for saving her seemingly useless fellow student. The Cavendish however, justifies her actions by rightfully pointing out that Akko's determination against her odds made her far from useless like Miraj believes to be, leaving the Japanese witch-in training moved.
Things get heated up when Miraj responds by magically manipulates the trees below them to create a complicated maze around Akko and Diana as well as conjures enchanted leaves which fly orbiting the Cavendish's head to blind her. This prompts Diana to trust Akko in guiding her through the altered terrain. Exiting the maze, they find Miraj already far away and about to reach the finish line. Unwilling to give up, Akko and Diana improvise by using Shiny Rod's bow form with which the Japanese witch-in-training launches herself towards the finish line while on Diana's broom and assumes her winged elephant form for the first time for a good measure, effectively winning the race and catching Miraj off-guard.
==Video Games==
===Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time===
==Light Novels==
===Little Witch Academia: The Nonsensical Witch and the Country of Fairies===
Diana is among students who partake the field trip to Doras Hill and even acts as Finnelan's assistant alongside Ursula in bringing her class there. She is first seen stopping Hannah and Barbara from insulting Akko for relying on Ursula to get around her inability to fly before their argument eacalates.
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