cedric diggory

Cedric Diggory
Harry Potter character

Cedric Diggory

Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory
in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Actor Robert Pattinson

First appearance Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban[1]

Cedric Diggory is a Hufflepuff student two years older than Harry. In addition to being a Hufflepuff prefect, he is the house Quidditch captain and Seeker. His father is Amos Diggory, who works at the Ministry of Magic. Cedric was first mentioned in Prisoner of Azkaban when he is described by the Gryffindor Chasers as "strong and silent" amid giggles prior to the Hufflepuff-Gryffindor match, and as a character he showed a notable streak of modesty and fairness; when he caught the Snitch and won the match after Harry falls off his broomstick following an encounter with the Dementors, he wanted the end result nullified and the match replayed.
In Goblet of Fire, Cedric is selected as the Hogwarts champion for the Triwizard Tournament. After Harry was also picked to compete, Malfoy makes "Support Cedric Diggory/Potter Stinks" badges, which Cedric tries to discourage his housemates from wearing. For the First Task, Cedric transfigures a rock into a dog in order to distract his dragon and successfully retrieves his golden egg, but he receives a burn on his cheek in the process. He is later Cho Chang's date for the Yule Ball, much to Harry's dismay.
As compensation for Harry's warning about the dragons before the First Task, Cedric assists Harry in solving the clue of the Second Task by telling him to take a bath with the egg in the prefects' bathroom, and just "mull things over in the hot water." Cedric is the second of the four champions to reach the village of the merpeople and rescue his hostage, using a Bubble-Head Charm, but surfaced one minute over the one-hour time limit.
During the Third Task, Harry saves Cedric's life twice while in the maze, and when they reach the Triwizard Cup, Cedric refuses to take it without Harry, so they grab hold of it together. The cup turns out to be a Portkey which transports them to the Little Hangleton graveyard, where Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew await Harry's arrival; Pettigrew murders Cedric on the spot upon Voldemort's order to "kill the spare." In the midst of the Priori Incantatem effect during Harry's duel with Voldemort, Cedric's spirit appears and asks Harry to take his body back to his parents. The break-up of the spell provides a distraction that enables Harry to escape the graveyard with Cedric's body in tow.
Despite an attempted cover-up of the incident by the Ministry, Dumbledore candidly reveals the true nature of Cedric's demise to the students at the end-of-term feast, stating that to attribute it to an accident would be an injustice: ''Remember that, and Cedric Diggory will not have died in vain. You remember that, and we'll celebrate a boy who was kind and honest and brave and true right to the very end."
Cedric appeared in the film version of Goblet of Fire, and was played by Robert Pattinson.