Diggorys

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 14584

meboriqua wrote:

> I noticed how exceedingly proud Amos Diggory was of his own son, 
Cedric 
>(should we have picked up on that and known Cedric was doomed?), to 
>the point that he wouldn't even tolerate Cedric's humility. 

This is my take on Cedric (and his dad).  My impression was that 
Cedric's sense of honor kept him from telling Amos the whole story.  
All Amos knows about the Hufflepuff-Gryffindor match, e.g., is that 
Harry "fell off his broom."  This doesn't really tell the story, and 
Amos would understand a lot better if Cedric told him, "Harry was 
attacked by Dementors in the middle of the match," but sharing that 
would really have been unfair to Harry--more so than letting Amos 
think that Harry just fell off his broom.  This isn't humility (it 
makes Harry look like a worse flier than he is, in fact), but it's 
very admirable.

Amy Z

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   "I've got two Neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning 
 down at his piece of parchment, "that can't be right, can it?"
   "Aaaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical
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