Ron

[caliburncy at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25839

Luke's "Point of Order" of the day (Sorry, I'm too tired to write 
posts of substance recently and therefore have been resorting to 
random nitpicks):

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Kelly Hurt <klhurt at y...> wrote:
> Cedric didn't make the team 'til his 5th year & then was immediately
> made captain.

If you have made this inference from the sentence in POA (Chapter 9, 
Page 168 U.S. Hardcover) which reads "They've [referring 
to Hufflepuff's Quidditch team] got a new Captain and Seeker, Cedric 
Diggory" then it's quite a reasonable one and you may be right, but 
there are two viable alternatives:
1) The "new" refers only to his being made captain and he was already 
on the team as seeker.
2) The "new" refers both to his being made captain and seeker, but he 
was previously on the team under a different position.  (He certainly 
isn't quite normal seeker build so perhaps he started out playing a 
heavier position like chaser or keeper and then filled in at the 
loss of the previous seeker.)

Anyway, just pointing out the possibility.  I may also have overlooked 
some more conclusive canon evidence.

-Luke