Entry 12 – a "Cinema"

See Television – entry 2 – for some explaination.

These are public venues for entertaining masses of people with made up stories that are acted by some of their famous people and displayed on giant televisions! They charge muggle money for entry and you sit and watch the show in silence from start to finish, with advertisements for other shows at the start!

I managed to apparate into the screen showing a 'teen flick' and it was very humorous. There was a boy, and a girl, and he was supposed to be a Vampire. Clearly muggles have never encountered a vampire, but there were also werewolves in this and let me tell you, I know a werewolf and he is nothing like this boy! And since when are vampires friendly and sparkly in the sun? The muggles seemed to be enjoying the 'flick' however, and I have to say it was quite realistic and gripping. The hard part came with explaining to Molly where I had been for so long, and she wasn't amused to discover I had been partaking in a muggle past time again. However, she lightened up when I took her to a showing of the new 'film' fried green tomatoes. She loved it, and I caught her whispering Towanda under her breath as she cut the weeds in the garden the other day.