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cc_boots (cc_boots) wrote in charing_cross,
@ 2009-03-26 18:33:00

Entry tags:

! complete, ! public, * 2003: 03/march, - thread, character: dean thomas, character: dennis creevey, character: harry potter, character: lavender brown, character: neville longbottom, character: ron weasley, character: terry boot, npc: ben boot, npc: gareth boot, npc: maddie boot, retired character: cho chang, retired character: linden stebbins, retired character: roger davies, retired character: seamus finnigan

RP: Obscurus Books Presents
Date: 26 March 2003 (through early Thursday morning likely)
Characters: Everyone who'd like to come, plus various NPCs! Children Welcome! Add your tags!
Location: Obscurus Books & Cafe
Private/Public: Public as public can be!
Warnings: PG to start, if things get kinky, please use the subject line of the first comment to rate appropriately!
Summary: Just another day at Obscurus Books, until the storm hits and traps people inside.

Gareth looked around the bookshop with pride. Children were sitting enthralled by Marigold and her husband as they performed flashy magic tricks. Logan was hosting a small cooking class, teaching everyone from housewives to retired Unspeakables (though Gareth though it was highly unlikely that there were actually such a thing as retired Unspeakables) how to bake enchiladas. His Maddie was graciously signing copies of her latest best-seller Emerald Isle, and open mike poetry night would start in a half hour, followed by a rousing karaoke contest. All in all, Thursday was shaping up to be a wonderful, and profitable, night for Obscurus Books.

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Re: Roger & Terry

cc_terry
2009-03-30 05:25 pm UTC (link)

For the second time in under five minutes Terry found himself unable to respond. All he could do was sit there and gape at Roger in what was probably a very unbecoming manner. He tried to wrap his mind around someone who didn't like to read, but he was coming up empty. He blinked a couple of times, trying to reconcile this new information with the knowledge he already possessed about Roger, so that he could stop with the dropped jaw act already.

"You...you don't like to read?" He was surprised at how faint his voice was, but really, what did Roger expect, admitting to a thing like that. "Isn't...isn't that like a crime against Ravenclaw nature or something?" He smiled a bit to show that he was teasing, mostly, except in the way he actually wasn't. "You really don't like to read?"

"Um, I like chocolate ice cream best I guess." He didn't really give much thought to the question, still hung up on Roger's surprising admission. Didn't like to read. Honestly.

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Re: Roger & Terry

cc_roger
2009-03-30 05:33 pm UTC (link)

"I really don't like to read," he replied, with a shrug. He never had, he likely never would. It just wasn't the sort of thing that he wanted to do, that he liked to do. He sort of laughed at the shock Terry was showing, however, since it wasn't that big of a deal in his opinion. Some people liked reading, others didn't. Roger just happened to be a part of the second half of that.

"It's not that big of a deal," he commented, with a laugh.

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Re: Roger & Terry

cc_terry
2009-03-30 05:44 pm UTC (link)

Terry knew he was acting like an idiot, he just had never expected that response from a Ravenclaw. Which, in thinking about it, was probably terribly stereotypical of him, which wasn't fair at all.

"I'm sorry, I didn't meant to be such an ass about it," he said, managing a smile. "It's just. I grew up in a bookstore. Almost everyone I know is something of a book addict. Even back in school, when we weren't reading textbooks or skivving off for Quidditch or football," Or Dumbledore's Army meetings he added in his head, "my mates and I were reading. Granted, it was often comic books that would cause our mother's--well not my mother actually, as she was the one sending them to us, but their mothers anyway--eyebrows to fly right off their faces. And, I guess this says a lot about how much I really don't get out much, I've never met anyone who didn't like to read. That I know of anyway."

He thought briefly of Linden and how they'd connected instantly over books, but pushed the thought away as it wasn't appropriate for the context, and really he had to stop comparing people to others. It wasn't fair to anyone involved. "All right, next question: do you like Muggle films?"

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Re: Roger & Terry

cc_roger
2009-04-01 10:00 pm UTC (link)

"That's kind of odd. I've met plenty of people who didn't like to read... Muggle films are excellent, though," Roger replied, with a grin. Perhaps he didn't like reading, but watching the telly? The telly was one of the best creation that muggles had come up with, in his opinion, and he (sometimes) spent far too much time watching it. When he actually had the free time to do so, that was.

"Favourite muggle film, then?" He asked, assuming that Terry did, indeed, watch them as well from his question.

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Re: Roger & Terry

cc_terry
2009-04-02 06:35 pm UTC (link)

Terry grinned, feeling his earlier shock at Roger's admission lessen somewhat. "Oh, I like all sorts, actually," he said grinning. "But my particular favorite is the Indiana Jones films." He grinned sheepishly. "They rather remind me of my childhood in a way, and Harrison Ford isn't at all unattractive to look at."

He reached for the last eclair and took a small bite. "What about you? Which is your favorite film?"

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