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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As usual, Cedric was running a bit late to pick up Katie, so he arrived at 6:10 instead of 6 sharp. )
"I suppose change and permanence isn't going to happen right away," she agreed, taking a moment to sip at her water. While the dinner she had chosen had spice, it certainly wasn't to a feverish level. "It always feels like it's been longer since the end of the war. I think it's just because we've all settled into a routine being here, and it was a fresh start."
"Some of my clothes have muggle influence," Katie admitted; although jeans were fairly consistent between the cultures nowadays, "but not all. I still wear my cloak most of the time, and I'm rarely dressed up enough to wear robes, not that I have many left." Although, it had been far too long since she had bought something, well, relatively pretty. Nearly all the clothes she had left were more....practical. "But," she continued, "any desire I have for reform doesn't really stretch into the clothing arena. Unless whatever government we form bans jeans - then I may have a few words to say at a town meeting."
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"This is a bit off-topic, but you should come visit the museum in Exeter sometime, where I work. Have you been into Exeter much?"
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"I wouldn't mind seeing the museum," she replied with a smile, "although you may have to make sure you have the time to show me around - I don't think the normal tour guides would realize exactly how much extra questions I would have about things."
She hesitated, thinking about her last trip into town. "Not counting tonight? I've been there quite a bit actually, at least recently. There's this little out of the way bookstore I've been going to often, much to the manager's amusement, and I run a few errands as well - like visiting the grocery store there occasionally."
"I actually had an interesting experience a few days ago," Katie continued, not letting the excitement bubble up like it wanted to. She was still in awe of the movie theater she had visited, "It's a long story, but I ended up at the Exeter Picturehouse. It was a novel experience for me - I'd never been in a movie theater before." She knew she was blatantly understating things, but it wasn't like she was going to babble on the wonders of muggle technology and the amazing taste of popcorn - Cedric was likely all too familiar with that.
"I imagine you've been in them before," Katie added, embarassed. "Well, no doubt you have. Are they always so....I don't know, overwhelming? I got completely caught up in the picture I was seeing It all seemed so, I don't know, real up there on the screen like that."
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"What did you go and see?"
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She wasn't going to go in to how she spent some time with the projectionist afterwards, a grizzled old man who was seemed willing to buy her story about living in the wilderness for many years, and never seeing a movie before. At least she had known that filming things was possible, otherwise she would have been completely flabbergasted.
"What's your favourite one?" Katie couldn't resist asking. She was sure there had to be at least hundreds out there from over the years.
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"As for Muggles living exciting lives, I reckon most of them have lives more like ours and less like the movies." He smiled.
"My favorite ... Heavens, I don't know. Spider-Man, I think."
He leaned over the table as an idea just occurred to him. "Katie, do you know what a DVD is? A DVD player? You might have one in your flat. It plays these shiny round disks called CDs ... and they're recordings of films. It's not nearly as exciting and overwhelming as the cinema mind, but you can watch a lot more of them at once."
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She could see why the Notebook would be called one of those "chick flicks". Katie was sure if she took George to see it with her he would roll his eyes throughout the entire thing, although he did seem to be a bit of a sentimentalist (if that was even a word) at heart.
"Is that the same thing as a VCR?" she asked curiously, "although I don't remember any shiney discs being involved. I watched movies on a television with friends of mine before - although to be honest, I can't even remember what we saw - I was too busy being fascinated by the technology. It took some explaining for me to get the concept of filming people, not them being in the tv, although I'm still not sure that I'm certain of how it works."
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