by thestral » Tuesday 9 August 2005 1:25:29pm
no cedric had been mentioned in passing before GoF, in PoA before the quidditch match that harry lost cos of dementors the girls in the team giggled and said 'he's the handsome one, isn't he?' or somwthing when they were saying who the hufflepuff seeker was. so yes he was mentioned in passing a few times.
also sirius was mentioned right at the start of the HP books in PS, when hagrid drops harry off in sirius's motorbike and mcgonagall asks him where he got it and he said something like 'sirius black lent it to me, said he didn't need it anymore..'
it's a pattern JK has, she always mentions them in slight passing incidents and then suddenly they burst out of the scene as the answer to everything, they are the HBP, they stole the ring, they are the heir of the flaming green torch hahahahah!!!