"They've got a new captain and Seeker, Cedric Diggory--"
Angelina, Alicia, and Katie suddenly giggled.
"What?" said Wood, frowning at this light-hearted behavior.
"He's that tall, good-looking one, isn't he?" said Angelina. 
"Strong and silent," said Katie, and they started to giggle again. 
"He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together," said Fred impatiently. 

"Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen.  He was Captain and Seeker of the Hufflepuff House Quidditch team at Hogwarts."--how Book IV introduced Cedric (not a bad introduction, I'd say) 

"Everybody said hi back except for Fred and George, who merely nodded.  They had never quite forgiven Cedric for beating their team, Gryffindor, in the first Quidditch match of the previous year."--Fred and George really know how to hold a grudge, I guess 

"Ced's talked about you, of course.  Told us all about playing against you last year...I said to him, I said - Ced, that'll be something to tell your grandchildren, that will...You beat Harry Potter!"--Amos Diggory (that line is sadly ironic...Cedric didn't live to have grandchildren *cries*) 

"'Yes, but you didn't fall off, did you?' roared Amos genially, slapping his son on his back.  'Always modest, our Ced, always the gentleman...but the best man won, I'm sure Harry'd say the same, wouldn't you, eh?  One falls off his broom, one stays on, you don't need to be a genius to tell which one's the better flyer!'"--Amos being annoying

"...Muggle neighbors heard bangs and shouting, so they went and called those what-d'you-call-'ems - please-men.  Arthur, you've got to get over there...[Moody] says he heard an intruder in his yard.  Says he was creeping toward the house, but was ambushed by his dustbins.  [The dustbins] made one hell of a noise and fired rubbish everywhere, as far as I can tell.  Apparently one of them was still rocketing around when the please-men turned up."--Amos Diggory talking about the attack on Moody (hehe, please-men)

"'Only a week away!' said Ernie Macmillan of Hufflepuff. 'I wonder if Cedric knows?  Think I'll go and tell him...'
"'Cedric?' said Ron blankly.
"'Diggory,' said Harry.  'He must be entering the tournament.'
"'That idiot, Hogwarts champion?' said Ron as they pushed their way through the chattering crowd toward the staircase.
"'He's not an idiot.  You just don't like him because he beat Gryffindor at Quidditch,' said Hermione.  'I've heard he's a really good student--and he's a prefect.'  She spoke as though this settled the matter.
"'You only like him because he's handsome,' said Ron scathingly."--geez, it was just one Quidditch match, guys...

"'And all the Hufflepuffs are talking about Diggory,' said Seamus contemptuously.  'But I wouldn't have thought he'd have wanted to risk his good looks.'"--Seamus is just jealous, I'm sure he is...

"'Well, I'm glad someone from Gryffindor's entering,' said Hermione.  'I really hope you get it, Angelina!'
"'Yeah, better you than Pretty-Boy Diggory,' said Seamus, causing several Hufflepuffs passing their table to scowl heavily."--ah, shaddup and get over it, Seamus.

"Every single Hufflepuff had jumped to his or her feet, screaming and stamping, as Cedric made his way past them, grinning broadly, and headed off toward the chamber behind the teacher's table.  Indeed, the applause for Cedric went on so long that it was some time before Dumbledore could make himself heard again."--Cedric gets a positive reaction when he is announced the Hogwarts Champion

"Cedric looked nonplussed....politely bewildered."--Cedric's thinking, "Another Hogwarts champion?  What the...?"

"Then there was the fact that Cedric looked the part of a champion so much more than he did.  Exceptionally handsome, with his straight nose, dark hair, and gray eyes, it was hard to say who was receiving more attention these days, Cedric or Viktor Krum.  Harry actually saw the same sixth-year girls who had been so keen to get Krum's autograph begging Cedric to sign their school bags one lunchtime."--yes, Cedric's great, isn't he?

"Cedric's bag split.  Parchment, quills, and books spilled out of it onto the floor.  Several bottles of ink smashed.  'Don't bother,' said Cedric in an exasperated voice as his friends bent down to help him.  'Tell Flitwick I'm coming, go on...'"--Harry's idea to distract Cedric

"Cedric stared at him.  Harry saw some of the panic he'd been feeling since Saturday night flickering in Cedric's gray eyes.
"'Are you sure?' Cedric said in a hushed voice...'But how did you find out?  We're not supposed to know...'
"Cedric straightened up, his arms full of inky quills, parchment, and books, his ripped bag dangling off one shoulder.  He stared at Harry, and there was a puzzled, almost suspicious look in his eyes.
"'Why are you telling me?'"--Harry being a nice guy and telling Cedric the first task because everyone else already knew

"Cedric had nodded once, to show he understood Bagman's words, and then started pacing around the tent again; he looked slightly green."--well, wouldn't you feel a little sick if you were going up against a dragon?

"'Oooh, narrow miss there, very narrow!'...'He's taking risks, this one!'...'Clever move - pity it didn't work!'"--Bagman's commentary on Cedric's task

"Cedric did this weird thing whre he Transfigured a rock on the ground...turned it into a dog...he was trying to make the dragon go for the dog instead of him.  Well, it was a pretty cool bit of Transfiguration, and it sort of worked, because he did get the egg, but he got burned as well - the dragon changed its mind halfway through and decided it would rather have him than the Labrador; he only just got away."--Ron filling Harry in on what Cedric did for the task

"Dean Thomas, who was very good at drawing, had put up some impressive new banners, most of which depicted Harry zooming around the Horntail's head on his Firebolt, though a couple showed Cedric with his head on fire."--ahh, Dean, that's not very nice, is it?

"Death, my dears.  Yes, it comes ever closer, it circles overhead like a vulture, ever lower...ever lower over the castle..."--Professor Trelawney thinks she's predicting Harry's death, but we all know who it really was

"He wasn't attracting nearly as much unpleasantness in the corridors anymore, which he suspected had a lot to do with Cedric - he had an idea Cedric might have told the Hufflepuffs to leave Harry alone, in gratitude for Harry's tip-off about the dragons."--that was nice of him, wasn't it?

"He had been starting to quite like Cedric - prepared to overlook the fact that he had once beaten him at Quidditch, and was handsome, and popular, and nearly everyone's favorite champion.  Now he suddenly realized that Cedric was in fact a useless pretty boy who didn't have enough brains to fill an eggcup."--Harry doesn't mean it, really, he's just jealous Cedric beat him to asking Cho to the ball

"She's part veela.  You were right - her grandmother was one.  It wasn't your fault, I bet you just walked past when she was turning on the old charm for Diggory and got a blast of it - but she was wasting her time.  He's going with Cho Chang."--Harry talking about Fleur, whom I wish would stop flirting with Cedric so much

"Harry tried not to watch Cho and Cedric too much; it gave him a strong desire to kick something."--jealousy rears its ugly head...

"Listen...I owe you one for telling me about the dragons.  You know that golden egg?  Does yours wail when you open it?  Well...take a bath, okay?  Take a bath, and - er - take the egg with you, and - er - just mull things over in the hot water.  It'll help you think....Trust me."--Cedric gives some very weird advice to Harry

"Harry had not forgotten the hint that Cedric had given him, but his less-than-friendly feelings toward Cedric just now meant that he was keen not to take his help if he could avoid it.  In any case, it seemed to him that if Cedric had really wanted to give Harry a hand, he would have been a lot more explicit.  He, Harry, had told Cedric exactly what was coming in the first task - and Cedric's idea of a fair exchange had been to tell Harry to take a bath.  Well, he didn't need that sort of rubbishy help - not from someone who kept walking down corridors hand in hand with Cho, anyway."--Harry pondering whether Cedric was trying to play a prank on him or not with the hint

"Should we leave him here?"
"No.  I reckon we should send up red sparks.  Someone'll come and collect him...otherwise he'll probably be eaten by a skrewt."
"He'd deserve it."--Cedric and Harry after Krum used the Cruciatus Curse on poor Cedric

"You told me about the dragons.  I would've gone down in the first task if you hadn't told me what was coming."
"I had help on that too.  You helped me with the egg - we're square...."
"You should've gotten more points on the second task.  You stayed behind to get all the hostages.  I should've done that."--Cedric and Harry arguing about who gets the cup

"Cedric was serious.  He was walking away from the sort of glory Hufflepuff House hadn't had in centuries.  He looked as though this was costing him every ounce of resolution he had, but his face was set, his arms were folded, he seemed decided."--wow, to go through all those tasks and then insist that Harry take the cup, who else would do that?  Not Fleur, and not Krum.

"He grabbed Harry's arm below the shoulder and helped Harry limp toward the plinth where the cup stood.  When they had reached it, they both held a hand out over one of the cup's gleaming handles.  'On three, right?' said Harry.  'One - two - three -' He and Cedric both grapsed a handle."--the decision that cost Cedric his life :..(

"Did anyone tell you the Cup was a Portkey?"--Cedric after being transported to the graveyard

"Kill the spare."--what Voldemort said to Wormtail upon seeing Cedric (now you know where I got the title of this site from)

"A blast of green light blazed through Harry's eyelids, and he heard something heavy fall to the ground beside him; the pain in his scar reached such a pitch that he retched, and then it diminished; terrified of what he was about to see, he opened his stinging eyes.
"Cedric was lying spread-eagled on the ground beside him.  He was dead.
"For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric's face, at his open gray eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth, which looked slightly surprised.  And then, before Harry's mind had accepted what he was seeing, before he could feel anything but numb disbelief, he felt himself being pulled to his feet."--Cedric's death scene

"'Harry...' whispered the figure of Cedric, 'take my body back, will you?  Take my body back to my parents...'"--Cedric's shadow making its last request

"My God - Diggory!  Dumbledore - he's dead!"--well done, Fudge, you figured it out

"They did not blame him for what had happened; on the contrary, both thanked him for returning Cedric's body to them.  Mr. Diggory sobbed through most of the interview.  Mrs. Diggory's grief seemed to be beyond tears.
"'He suffered very little then,' she said, when Harry had told her how Cedric had died.  'And after all, Amos...he died just when he'd won the tournament.  He must have been happy.'...
"Harry seized the sack of gold on the bedside table.  'You take this,' he muttered to her.  'It should've been Cedric's, he got there first, you take it--'
"But she backed away from him.
"'Oh no, it's yours, dear, I couldn't...you keep it.'"--Harry's meeting with the Diggorys

"The Great Hall was normally decorated with the winning House's colors for the Leaving Feast.  Tonight, however, there were black drapes on the wall behind the teachers' table.  Harry knew instantly that they were there as a mark of respect to Cedric."--a subtle way of honoring Cedric

"There is much that I would like to say to you all tonight, but I must first acknowledge the loss of a very fine person, who should be siggint here, enjoying our feast with us.  I would like you all, please, to stand, and raise your glasses, to Cedric Diggory."--part of Dumbledore's speech

"They did it, all of them; the benches scraped as everyone in the Hall stood, and raised their goblets, and echoed, in one loud, low, rumbling voice, 'Cedric Diggory.'
"Harry caught a glimpse of Cho through the crowd.  There were tears pouring silently down her face."--the students raise their glasses

"Cedric was a person who exemplified many of the qualities that distinguish Hufflepuff House.  He was a good and loyal friend, a hard worker, he valued fair play.  His death has affected you all, whether you knew him well or not.  I think that you have the right, therefore, to know exactly how it came about. 
"Cedric Diggory was murdered by Lord Voldemort. 
"The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this.  It is possible that some of your parents will be horrified that I have done so - either because they will not believe that Lord Voldemort has returned, or because they think I should not tell you so, young as you are.  It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies, and that any attempt to pretend that Cedric died as the result of an accident, or some sort of blunder of his own, is an insult to his memory...
"Remember Cedric.  Remember, if the time should come to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.  Remember Cedric Diggory."--Dumbledore's speech (I almost cried while typing this up)

"I liked Diggory.  He vos alvays polite to me.  Alvays.  Even though I vos from Durmstrang - with Karkaroff."--Krum

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