And even if Cedric's father did follow the normal Muggle protocol when it comes to funeral services and whatnot, how did he explain that his son just came back from school dead? Does he research what kind of Muggle terminal illness would match up to the aftereffects of the Killing Curse? What would the medical examiner find? Because Diggory obviously didn't die in a car accident or because of an overdose. That dude is just dead. And "just dead" is the hardest kind of dead to accept when you don't know how to levitate brooms and stuff.
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I don't know if the entire British government is going to buy the "He's just, like, reeeeaaally dead" excuse.
And if the medical examiner went to the local police because a boy in town was found suspiciously "just dead," what would the police find? Because either the father starts to carefully explain what a Hagrid is, or he and Hogwarts stonewall the hell out of any attempt to find out what/who killed the Diggory boy. How does Hogwarts deal with this? Just mind-wipe everybody who asks questions? Every Muggle who ever knew that Cedric existed? Also, how many times do they have to do this, considering that it's a school where 11-year-olds go to learn how to cast killer spells?
"So can you tell me what went down, Mr. Dumbledore?"
"Oh yeah, he was just found dead in the middle of a school function."
"What was the school function?"
"A big maze thing."
"Was he running through the maze when he was found dead?"
"Well, technically, he was outside the maze."
"So the maze didn't kill him?"
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