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RP: Meet the Parent

Jul 08, 2007 00:40

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

( It wasn't happening in her best outfit, and with Cedric for support, it was happening here )

place: quidditch pitch, katie bell, cedric diggory, july 2005

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shh_cedric July 8 2007, 05:37:42 UTC

"Katherine?"

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.

shh_katie July 8 2007, 05:46:08 UTC

It had been years since she had been called by her full first name - at least not if anyone knew what was good for them. But she was hardly going to get into an arguement with Cedric's mum. "Katie actually, nowadays," she said with a smile, walking up to the other woman. She wiped her hand unnoticably on the shorts of her Quidditch gear before holding it out to Lucy.

"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.

shh_cedric July 8 2007, 05:55:09 UTC

Lucy was amused by Katie's assertiveness as well as by her uncertainties. She took the girl's hand in a firm grip, then let it go.

"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 ( ... )

shh_katie July 8 2007, 06:05:15 UTC

"Lucy," she tested out the name, still awkward on her tongue, but figured it was the easiest form of address on the other woman's invitation. Giving a wry smile, she continued, "I do know of your birth family - perhaps a little more than I would care to, if you'll pardon me saying do. Diggory is the much better choice ( ... )

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shh_cedric July 11 2007, 04:39:43 UTC

Lucy's expression was sly. "Cedric wants to believe in true love. Well, doesn't 'want' to, he does." She wanted to ask the girl if Katie loved her son, but it was too soon. Cedric hadn't himself used that word yet when speaking to her ... although Lucy knew him well enough to suspect he was employing it to himself. That's why she wanted to meet this girl, and talk to her without Cedric running interference. Cedric might not be 'saying' love, but Lucy suspected he felt it ( ... )

shh_katie July 11 2007, 06:33:45 UTC

"Cedric is idealistic," Katie remarked dryly, though she meant it in only a positive fashion. It was one of the things she truly liked about him, his ability to believe in things most people thought fanciful. She had felt that way since the first day she had met him. Hastening to explain, she told Lucy, "I'm not condemning that - he'd idealistic about a lot of things, and I find appealing about your son, even if I'm not the same way. But true love isn't a bad thing to believe in, I think we all at least want to believe it exists if nothing else ( ... )

shh_cedric July 12 2007, 01:11:59 UTC

"Ah yes, the traveling. Cedric said that you share his ichy-feet syndrome, which is advantageous, considering how ithy his are. I will admit, I have never entirely understood that travel bug. It's not that I dislike travel, or living in other countries -- obviously -- but my idea of travel does not include riding on the back of an elephant through the jungles of India."

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."

shh_katie July 12 2007, 02:01:58 UTC

"I'm not sure that would be my first choice either," she replied in amusement, "but it's part of it - at least with a good cushioning charm."

"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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