Cedric Diggory

**Cedric Diggory** is a student at Hogwarts who was sorted into Hufflepuff House.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

Cedric is a member of the Diggory family. Despite not holding a Wizengamot Seat, Cedric is still proud of his Pure-Blood Wizarding heritage.

### Early Life

Cedric grew up at his family home near Ottery St. Catchpole in Devon, and befriended his Weasley neighbours when they were young.

### Book 1 - The Prince of Slytherin

Cedric joins the Hufflepuff Quidditch team as Seeker. He plays in the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match, which is refereed by Severus Snape and ends when Jim Potter catches the snitch within five minutes, setting a new school record.

### Book 2 - The Secret Enemy

Cedric visits the Burrow during Harry Potter's stay there, bringing fellow Hufflepuffs Tamsin Applebee, Susan Bones, and Herb Fleet with him. Cedric and Ginny Weasley go against each other as Seekers, and Ginny manages to beat Cedric during their first match by lulling him into a false sense of security that she has never flown a broom before. Cedric plays six more matches against, where she manages to catch the snitch only once. After this he plays eleven matches against Harry, in which Harry manages to catch the snitch four times.

Cedric and his family were later invited by Harry Potter to his and Jim's twelfth birthday party.

After Gilderoy Lockhart's first classes he divides his students into teams, with Cedric selected to join Team Counterstrike, alongside the three other Hogwarts Seekers.

During the first meeting of the Dueling Club Cedric duels Justin Finch-Fletchley, a fellow member of Team Counterstrike. Cedric disarms Justin twice before Justin gains the upper hand with advice from Draco Malfoy, ending with a final score of 3-2 for Cedric.

Cedric attends the Potter New Year's Eve Ball, where he dances with Cho Chang.  During the Slytherin-Hufflepuff Quidditch match Cedric catches the Snitch when Slytherin has a more than 200-point lead, depriving Draco Malfoy of an undefeated season as Seeker but giving Slytherin enough points to win the House Quidditch Cup.

### Book 3 - The Death Eater Menace

After Theodore Nott is disinherited through the Ultimate Sanction Cedric gains an automatic dislike and distrust of Theo due to his father working at the Ministry, which indirectly links him to House Nott. When Theo is briefly seperated from Nymphadora Tonks on Platform 9¾ a mob form around him, consisting of Cedric and nearly two dozen other Pureblood and Halfblood wizards and witches. A group of studens unaffected by the Sanction gather around Theo, including Anthony Goldstein, who makes a reference to the Holocaust that goes over Cedric's head as he was never educated on it. A few days into the school year Cedric helps organise the first meeting of the Hogwarts Cultural Preservation Society, in response to the incident on the train station. Cedric gives a speech where he explains that he is dismayed by the fact that some of his fellow students simply don't seem to understand the disdain they feel towards "the Outcast". Cedric hoped that Muggleborns would also join the club, and is dismayed to find that even those few that show up often leave the club after a single meeting.

During the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match, which is first hampered by weather and then by Dementors, Cedric catches the Snitch while Jim is being assailed by a Dementor. Cedric offers to replay the match, but Oliver Wood declines. Later in the year, as tensions between the CPS and their rivals, SPAM, rise, Cedric and his girlfriend, Cho Chang, use undiluted Disparaging Dainties to make a cake that will make the members of SPAM refer to each other by blood-based and racial slurs, but they are caught in the act by Bobby Lattimer, Percy Weasley, and George Weasley. Cedric claims full responsibility for the prank, despite Pansy Parkinson and Cassius Warrington being the true orchestrators, and him and Cho are each docked twenty house points and sentenced to a week of detentions.

After the Ultimate Sanction is lifted by the Wizengamot, thanks to the newly christened Harry Black's political machinations, Cedric and Cho walk over to the Slytherin table to apologize to Theo and invite him to attend the next CPS meeting, which amuses Theo.

### Book 4 - The Resurrection Game

Cedric attends the Quidditch World Cup alongside his father Amos, who has bought tickets for the VIP box.

## Personality & Traits

Cedric is incredibly charismatic, which has made him influential and respected in Hufflepuff, and there are even some who speculate he might make Minister for Magic one day.

## Magical Abilities & Skills

Cedric is a skilled duelist and Quidditch seeker.

## Canon Divergence

In canon, Cedric is only briefly mentioned as the Hufflepuff seeker before he becomes more important in the TWT-plot, during Harry's fourth year, whereas in POS he first becomes relevant in Harry's second year, where he is sporadically mentioned as an older student and skilled Quidditch player, and is expanded on in Harry's third year, where he becomes heavily involved in the Ultimate Sanction plotline.

## References

Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 39 - Meet the Weasleys (Pt 2),

Cedric visits the Burrow for a Quidditch match.
Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 25 - Slytherin Maneuvers (Pt 1),

Harry thinks back on the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 41 - Countdown to a Birthday,

Harry sends out invitations to his birthday party, including one to Amos Diggory and his family.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 52 - Team-Building Exercises (Pt 2),

Draco attends the first meeting of Team Counterstrike.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 64 - The Duelling Club,

First meeting of the Dueling Club.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 67 - A Very Potter Holiday,

"...Tori still obviously had eyes for Cedric Diggory, who was dancing gracefully if nervously with some Ravenclaw named Chang...".
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 82 - Goodbyes,

Cedric catches the Snitch but loses the match.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 83 - Prelude (Theodore Nott),

Artie explains the effects of the Ultimate Sanction.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 96 - Back to School (Finale),

Platform 9¾.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 99 - Feasts, Electives & Student Organizations (Conclusion),

Cedric holds a speech at the first CPS meeting.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 106 - Random Moments of Weirdness,

Justin explains to Cedric why he and other Muggleborns left the Hogwarts Cultural Preservation Society.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 105 - Chaos in Hogsmeade (Finale),

Dementors attack the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 127 - Redux (Pt 1),

Cedric and Cho are caught trying to prank the SPAM meeting.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 138 - The Future All Around Us, Waiting to Be Born (Pt 2),

Cedric and Cho apologize to Theo.
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 149 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 4),

Jim meets Amos Diggory in the VIP box.
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 148 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 3),

Hannah talks about Cedric's influence in Hufflepuff.