Date: July 7, 2005
Characters: Katie Bell, Lucretia Diggory (Cedric Diggory)
Location: Stoatshead Hill Quidditch Pitch
Status: Private - though they are in public
Summary: Despite Cedric's wishes to the contrary, Lucy seeks out Katie on her own at Quidditch Day
Completion: Complete
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It wasn't happening in her best outfit, and with Cedric for support, it was happening here )
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Lucy Diggory had seen Katie -- Katherine -- Bell make her announcement about the World Cup, and this must be Cedric's darling. She was attractive, although Lucy wasn't terribly concerned about that one way or the other except insofar as Cedric was exceptionally good looking and his mother wasn't ignorant of it. She doubted Cedric cared -- she'd raised him not to -- but it might matter as they aged. The girl looked more like her mother, Bridget, than Jordan Bell, and she might not have realized she was Jordan's without the last name.
This was the reason Lucy had come to Quidditch Day. She wanted to speak to Katherine Bell alone, without Cedric present. The fact he hadn't ended up going off to lunch with his lady-love was advantageous in her eyes.
"Katherine?" she called again.
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"Pleased to meet you Mrs...Diggory," the hitch before the last name was almost imperceptable, but there. With the seperation she wasn't sure if she should have called the other woman by her married name - but what else was she going to call her? Lucy? "I know Cedric's around here somewhere, if you're looking for him."
For all Cedric's reassurances, it was hard to look the woman straight in the face when her son was camping out at her flat, and had been the whole time she was there. She would have expressed her regrets over the missed dinner, but that would bring back memories of Sunday night, and that was a topic best evaded on first meeting.
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"First, a few matters," Lucy said, swallowing the smile that threatened. "Mrs. Diggory is absolutely fine; I've been a Diggory longer than a Malfoy, and prefer it, frankly. I know you know my birth family. Amos and I are still friendly and I've no aversion to his name. But you may call me Lucy if you'd prefer.
"Second -- Katie it is, it that's what you prefer. I'm not terribly fond of my given name either. I may choose either a famous poisoner or a rape victim. I can think of better models." Her smile was wry. "I think Katherine rather more lovely than Lucretia, but that may be my own associations speaking."
"Third, it's you I wanted to meet and speak with. I know where Cedric is, and can speak with him regularly -- but he's been seeing to it that I haven't met you yet. I appreciate his concern for you, but I promise I'm not the asp in the sand. Do you have a little while that we might have a ( ... )
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Listening to Katie discuss cinema was interesting. "I have seen some of their movies, even in their cinema. It reminds me a little of what I do -- and yet not.
"But I have wondered myself about the possibility of adapting that technology. I am not the one to do it, but someone may be. Our cameras are not the same as theirs. How do you think our films might be different? I think it would be in more ways than just the setting. You are right -- in our hearts, wizards and Muggles are both human."
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"Movies are art in their own way," Katie told her, "well, perhaps someone who sees some bloody horror movie with no logic would disagree, but even then, it has it's basis in art. It's a different kind of course than painting, but not worth less."
Contemplating Lucy's question, though not quite sure what she was asking, Katie finally answered, "I'm sure we could do it - if we wanted. Not with the charms and technology, but we have cameras modified to our magic. We would probably even improve on it, I'm sure, rather than having set films, we could.....
"Well, anyway, but beyond the tecnological and magical part, the storylines would be different in some ways beyond setting - but not really. Because yes, the underlying issues are all the same. A romance set in a dragon colony with people casting spells is the same, is the same as two people falling in love at a zoo, at least underneath. ( ... )
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