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RP: Reception for Lucy Diggory

Jul 08, 2007 01:59

Date: 8 July, 2005
Characters: Lucretia Diggory, Cedric Diggory, Katie Bell, Ernie MacMillan, Eleanor Branstone, Morag MacDougal, Rabastan Lestrange, Lisa Turpin, Percy Weasley, Su Li, Irma Pince, Rita Skeeter, others as they arrive...
Location: museum
Status: public
Summary: The reception for Lucy at the museum; a chance to meet a real, live ( Read more... )

irma pince, katie bell, percy weasley, ernie macmillan, morag macdougal, july 2005, su li, eleanor branstone, padma patil, cedric diggory, rabastan lestrange, place: museum, lisa turpin, rita skeeter

Comments 86

shh_padma July 9 2007, 04:49:32 UTC

Padma had heard about the museum exhibition yesterday and had admitted that she was curious. That and she hadn't found time to go down and see the museum at all since it opened. So, she decided to go and to drag Marcus with her.

Poor Marcus, she had to admit, this was probably very cruel of her. Museums were not his idea of fun, and she was positive he thought her excitement over ancient artifacts and beautiful paintings rather stupid, but she didn't care. She'd gone to Quidditch day, he could put up with a museum.

Besides, she had worn a red sari, and she knew he enjoyed how she looked in it. She turned to look at him and smiled before taking his hand. "Come on, let's go inside."

She practically dragged him into the museum.

shh_irma July 9 2007, 09:14:02 UTC

Irma was thrilled at the museum finally opening. Here she wouldn't have to get bombarded with something that might pass for music. Even better - Andy was on holiday from work, and had decided to accompany her here, without his… girlfriend. They weren't among the first arrivals, but then they hadn't planned on being so either.

"I have to admit, I'm intrigued," she told him. "I've been hearing about the museum for quite some time, and it is always interesting to see something getting back on its feet again."

She looked around at the gathering. Some familiar faces, and some she hadn't seen before. She'd deal with those later. "Come, Andy. I wish to look at the pictures."

shh_irma July 9 2007, 11:36:54 UTC

Andrew Pince was not completely sure of why he was at a museum in Stoatshead Hill, when they could just as well have apparated to some of the finest museums the world had to offer. Still, it was what his mother had wished to do this afternoon, and if there was something Andy did, with a few minor exceptions that they both avoided talking about, it was please his mother.

"Yeah," he nodded, looking around. It was impressive - he had to admit that. Even if he'd had a hankering for visiting the Munch museum, this seemed to cover more of his own heritage. "Is that…"

shh_rita July 9 2007, 18:17:13 UTC

"The war, apparently."

Rita had arrived a little late, as usual - she'd hear about the event and been interested to come. Lucretia Malfoy had been in first year when Rita was in her last, and she'd been... rather unique, even then.

She'd arrived in time to find Irma and Andy Pince inside, looking at something on the wall, and had come up behind.

The war. She was painting a mural of the war, so soon after its end? There was Hogwarts, and Diagon, and...

"What on earth is she trying to do?"

shh_irma July 11 2007, 09:52:52 UTC

"Hello, Rita," Irma said. She couldn't look away from the mural. Hogwarts. "Fancy seeing you here."

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shh_su July 9 2007, 13:06:12 UTC

Su was running late to the reception for Lucy Diggory. It was mostly nerves. She had studied the paintings at school, and the idea of actually meeting the artist was terrifying. That was why she had owled Lisa, inviting her to meet. It would be good to have some moral support.

Entering the lobby, Su looked around for Lisa. She didn't see her, and then her attention was drawn to the cartoon on the wall. It was like a kick in the stomach. Su wanted so much to look away, but she forced herself to view the entire sequence. This is what your classmates did, she reminded herself. While you were safe in Shanghai studying art and playing with potions, they fought and they died. How can you stand to show your face in this town, having done nothing to help? Su felt slightly ill. She had known, intellectually, what the war must have been like, but seeing it illustrated was completely different. She swallowed, watching the sequence once more.

shh_lisa July 10 2007, 00:05:05 UTC

Lisa raced down the stairs as quickly as her ankle would allow her after her- confrontation with Ernie and Eleanor. She started to call out to Su when she spotted her, intending to make as best an apology as possible and run screaming all the way home, when she noted the pained look etched on her friend's familiar features. She hadn't seen Su look that way in a long time- not since she'd gotten that letter from her parents demanding she leave Hogwarts-

Hobbling over a bit more slowly, Lisa set herself next to and a bit behind Su, careful not to startle her.

"Su," she said quietly. "What is it?"

shh_su July 10 2007, 08:09:41 UTC

Su flinched slightly at the quiet voice behind her, but gave a small smile when she turned and saw her oldest friend, who she hadn't seen in far too long. "Lisa. It's just... Was it really like this? How can anyone bear to talk to me? I was safe in China the entire time, when everyone else was fighting and dying and I never thought about what it must have been like."

shh_lisa July 10 2007, 21:52:26 UTC

Lisa blanched, stepping forward into the light to look at the sketch. Very little was recognizable to her in its unfinished form, but she was sure the artist had meant to portray Azkaban- and that was unmistakably the destruction of the Ministry-

She supposed it had only been a matter of time, but this was one of the reasons she found most art so distasteful. No one but an artist would presume they had an ability- and a right- to attempt to communicate something so personal, so vast-

"Of course it wasn't like that, Su," she said darkly, meeting her eyes. It was unfathomably worse. "And no one blames you in the slightest, especially not me." Lisa couldn't speak for everyone, of course, but she understood entirely why Su- and others- had left. If she had had family, it might have been different for her as well ( ... )

shh_ron July 9 2007, 20:03:35 UTC

After all the excitement of the previous day, Ron was ready to do something fairly quiet on Sunday. Cedric had invited him (and, he assumed, many other friends) to the first showing of his mother's paintings. Ron didn't care about art much but Cedric was his friend, and he liked to support things that made his friends happy, whether it was Cedric and his museum, or Kingsley and bowling, or Harry and... Well, he wouldn't go there at the moment, he thought as he dressed up a bit for the showing. He didn't own any fancy Muggle clothing, so he wore his nicest jumper with a button-up shirt under it and a pair of dark trousers. It was as dressed up as Ron ever got without wearing Wizarding robes, and he didn't want to wear his old bedraggled robes because he needed to replace them and he was saving his money to buy dress robes for Percy's wedding. He'd shaved and slicked his hair down slightly so he wouldn't look too messy, and he was about as done up as he ever got. Besides, Lavender looked good enough for both of them, so nobody would ( ... )

shh_lavender July 9 2007, 20:19:47 UTC

"So this is like something for Cedric's mum, right?" Lavender checked just before she and Ron entered the museum. He'd said it was a reception or something along those lines, so Lavender had dressed up a little, wanting to look nice. "She's an artist?"

When they entered the museum, it became very clear that Cedric's mother was indeed an artist. "Oh my."

shh_ron July 9 2007, 21:05:29 UTC

"Yeah, it's for his mum," Ron said, unable to look directly at the drawing on the wall but unable to tear his eyes completely away either. When he looked off to the side, he noticed the same image done as a cartoon, like Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle but really large and on a wall. "She's a painter. This must be some of her stuff."

Moving a bit closer, he examined the sketch more closely, flinching slightly as he looked at some parts. "Can't believe she drew something like this," he murmured. "It's...she draws well, you know...but it's hard to look at. For me anyway."

shh_lavender July 10 2007, 17:44:52 UTC

Lavender's arm linked with Ron's and she was quiet as she stared at the sketch not quiet believing what she was seeing. Was it normal for people to draw things like this so soon after the end of a war? Had it been like this after the last war? It just didn't make sense to her.

"Me neither," she told Ron quietly. "I mean, why would someone want to paint something like this?"

shh_fleur July 10 2007, 00:03:08 UTC

One of the things Fleur adored about living and working at Hammerside was the fact that it was right around the corner from the museum. If she needed a break from the stress of starting a business all she needed to do was take a short walk and in moments she would be sitting amongst the displays. There was something very calming about it all.

But as Fleur stood next to her friend, Dean, in the entrance foyer of the museum, she was not soothed in any way.

She thought of a painting she had seen in the American National Gallery of Art the summer before she entered Beauxbatons. She was still a child as she stood before the huge canvas depicting a man being attacked by a shark. The great beast surging up through the water toward its helpless victim as a group of sailors desperately tried to pull the man from the water...and how terrified the image had made her, yet she could not turn away from that painting ( ... )