Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban cedric diggory

Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban cedric diggory

I'm currently re-reading PoA to my kids and we just got to the part about Gryffindor playing Hufflepuff instead of Slytherin in the first Quidditch match of the season. Wood is discussing how Hufflepuff has a new seeker this year, a 5th year named Cedric Diggory. He even points him out to Harry at one point, so I would take this to mean that he has never met and/or heard of Cedric. My question is this, if Cedric is brand new to the team, how was he also named the Team Captain? Maybe I don't know enough about "sports", but wouldn't a Team Captain likely not be a brand new player?

Robert Pattinson might be about to play Batman. But he first caught the attention of audiences everywhere as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. As fans know, that story — and Cedric’s fate — is a pivotal one for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. As much as Pattinson is associated with Cedric, he wasn’t really the first actor to play the Hogwarts student.

Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban cedric diggory
Emma Watson, Robert Pattinson and Katie Leung at the ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ Tokyo premiere | JIL Studio/FilmMagic

Compared to most other Harry Potter stars, Pattinson hasn’t been that closely tied to the franchise. Perhaps this is largely due to the release of Twilight just a few years later. Despite his role in Harry Potter, Pattinson is probably still best known to mainstream audiences as Edward Cullen. But he brought an inherent charm and screen presence to Cedric first.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Cedric has the unenviable task of competing against the title character — played, of course, by Daniel Radcliffe — in the Triwizard Tournament. Due to mysterious circumstances, both Cedric and Harry wind up representing Hogwarts in the competition. But the two Gryffindors have gone up against each other before.

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Cedric Diggory appears in ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’

Cedric makes his first on-screen appearance during a Quidditch sequence in 2004’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Stuntman and actor Joe Livermore played the role, as Cedric attempts to beat Harry to the Golden Snitch, according to MovieFone.com. 

Given Cedric’s much more integral role, Pattinson took over as the character in his next appearance. After all, Cedric isn’t even named on-screen in the third film. So most fans probably never even realized Cedric showed up before. It’s just another instance of the movies making necessary cuts and changes to the books.

Throughout the Harry Potter series, some elements of the books are barely featured in the movies until they become essential to the plot. For instance, Cho Chang (Katie Leung) makes her debut in the third book but first shows up in the fourth Harry Potter movie.

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Pattinson will next play the Dark Knight himself in ‘The Batman’

Pattinson’s career has grown so much since his Harry Potter days. Now on the other side of the Twilight franchise as well, the actor has been slowly building up his credibility on the big screen. The past few years have seen him deliver compelling, critically acclaimed turns in movies such as Good Time and The Lighthouse.

And Pattinson must be satisfied with his break from franchise fare. In 2021, he’ll become the latest actor to don the cape and cowl as the Dark Knight himself. Writer/director Matt Reeves reportedly has something fresh in mind for Pattinson’s Batman. But seeing as the movie is still a mystery, fans will have to wait until much closer The Batman’s October 2021 release date

Is Cedric Diggory in the Prisoner of Azkaban?

Cedric was introduced in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, so we really only had two books to get to know this dashing Hufflepuff student before he was killed by Wormtail and Lord Voldemort.

Why did Cedric Diggory become a Death Eater?

Cedric's death is a major plot point in the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child where Harry and Ginny Weasley's son Albus uses a Time-Turner and prevents Cedric's death. Due to his humiliation in the Triwizard Tournament, Cedric eventually becomes a Death Eater and kills Neville Longbottom.

Who was Cedric Diggory in love with?

Cho Chang is a character from the Harry Potter series. She was the girlfriend off Cedric Diggory, until his death. Afterwards she became the girlfriend of Harry Potter.

Was Cedric Diggory in the first movie?

Cedric Diggory appears in 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' Cedric makes his first on-screen appearance during a Quidditch sequence in 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.