RP: Dinner in Exeter

[shh_cedric]

Date: January 6, 2005
Characters: Katie Bell, Cedric Diggory
Location: Exeter
Status: Private
Summary: Cedric owes Katie dinner, at least.
Completion: Complete

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[shh_cedric]

"Well, I'm not sure how official anything is anymore. I went into the Ministry earlier in the autumn to see if I needed a building permit to start rebuilding my house and Percy Weasley just laughed at me." His eyebrows hopped; that still stung. "But the poor bloke was completely covered up with parchment, so I suppose I can see why. Still, I could just imagine getting started only to have somebody descend on me telling me I needed this or that form. You know how the old Ministry was.

"A public painting will be more work, I'm sure of it, but important. And yes, that's what my mother thinks I'm barmy about. She said the same thing you did -- I'll just have to redo much of it, or all of it, to make it look decent. But I know that going in, and it's not really the point. I just want to get people in the door to see the place, and let them paint a little so that later, they'll feel more as if it's theirs.

"Mum ... she'd usually prefer to avoid rubbing elbows too much with the hoi polloi." He grinned. "She's a bit of a princess sometimes, although it's less about birth for her than ... intelligence? She doesn't have a great deal of confidence people's common sense, I suppose." It was one of his mother's more Slytherin-ish qualities that he disliked. "But I'm glad you're still set to help with the actual painting."