Just how important *is* this guy?/violet-theme?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54490

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> Greicy:
> 
> > Annemehr:
> > >But really!  Three or four mentions in the beginning of the 
first 
> > >book, and then (as far as I can remember), nothing?  If Dedalus 
> > >Diggle never shows up in a place of importance, I will 
personally 
> > >*locate* a violet top hat and then *eat* it!
> > 
> > I've always been suspicious of him, too.  Is he a good guy or bad 
> > guy?  What's the deal with him that JKR keeps mentioning him?

Eloise:
 
> No specific evidence for this theory, but you know who designed the 
> Minotaur's maze? That's right, Daedalus!
> 
> I've always liked to assume that perhaps it was Daedalus Diggle who 
designed 
> the maze for the Third Task. At the very least, I am sure that 
there is a 
> tenuous connection in the back of JKR's mind, planning a maze for 
the fourth 
> book and using the name of a maze-builder in the first.
> 

I kind of *like* Dedalus Diggle, and was amazed that he was not seen 
again after first book. Maze-designer? Like that idea... Brilliant 
but mad? I remember Dumbledore referred so somewhere.

He wears violet, and Gryffindor Tower's entrance-painting is friends 
with Violet. A connection?

Then, violet is also a flower - are there violets in Petunia's flower-
bed? Possibly the one where that 'teenage boy' is laying.

Dedalus Diggle has met all Dursleys AND Harry pre-Hogwarts letter.
He's another character with a remembarable name, much like Mundungus 
Fletcher. Where is Diggle now? in Kent? Well, I guess Dumbledore 
sends him an owl at some point...

-- Finwitch