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RP: Interview after an odd morning

Aug 07, 2007 01:12

Date: 7 August 2005
Characters: Rita Skeeter, Lucy Diggory
Location: Museum
Status: Private
Summary: Rita drops by the museum for the interview she didn't quite get last time.
Completion: Incomplete

( The walk to the museum was strange )

cedric diggory, august 2005, place: museum, rita skeeter

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shh_cedric August 7 2007, 00:48:16 UTC

Lucy was as close to having a fit as she ever came. She was supposed to be in Florence right now, acquiring the keys to her new villa and getting settled into her new life ( ... )

shh_rita August 7 2007, 04:42:32 UTC

She'd wondered if it was going to be difficult to find Lucy Diggory or not. As it happened, it wasn't, but the woman didn't look in any mood to be interrupted.

Well. This was going to be a challenge. She'd have to tread carefully if she wanted to get anything out of this one, especially since the subject of the interview was likely to get her on the defensive.

She approached slowly, but her heels echoed loudly on the floor, so Lucy would certainly know she was coming. She stopped beside the woman, an acceptable distance away and slightly behind, so she could get a good view of the now coloured but as yet unmoving mural.

It was beautiful, in a way, but difficult to look at, as it had been when it was still a sketch. She had to fight down the anger that immediately came forward, at how a woman like this who hadn't even been in England for the war dared to drag up people's pain with such a vivid painting. It wouldn't do to let that take over. Detachment was they key ( ... )

shh_cedric August 7 2007, 04:56:46 UTC

Lucy heard her. And ignored her. At least until she spoke ... then she glanced around and blew hair out of her face.

"Or it will distract me more." But she lowered her wand and brush and waited. It seemed that she wouldn't get out of town without an interview after all.

"What did you want, Rita?"

shh_rita August 7 2007, 05:09:28 UTC

Rita almost chuckled. The abruptness was very unSlytherin, but easy enough to deal with. Perhaps living with a Huffle... well, whatever house Amos Diggory had been in had blunted Lucy's edges a bit.

"Well," she said, "I was rather hoping you might have time for a word today. The latest edition of the Prophet is nearly done, but I'd like to have something about this, and you, included in there. It was certainly a topic of controversy on the open night, and we never did get to finish our conversation. Let me buy you lunch, perhaps? The Five Alarm isn't far from here."

Food for conversation was always a good one, although Rita had no idea whether Lucy would take her up on it or not. Either way, the offer usually helped.

This bluntness business was easy, sometimes. At last Lucy didn't dance around the topic at hand like so many other Slytherins Rita knew.

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