Ireland was not part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, but plenty of fans still went there to cheer during the Quidditch World Cup, including Harry Potter, the Weasley family, and Hermione Granger, who knew absolutely nothing about Quidditch.
She had gone to watch the nearly impossible-to-get-tickets-for Quidditch World Cup without even knowing who Viktor Krum was. What an adorable little fool.
Compared with the fierce competition on the field, she preferred the festival-like activities outside the stadium, which showed her another side of the Wizarding World.
Likewise, she showed the wizards another side of the Muggle world. The music at the Titanic's third-class party was just as lively as it was at the Quidditch World Cup, and that was Pomona's favorite part of the entire film.
She liked Jack far more than Rose's fiancé, Carl, the steel tycoon who had used the enormous blue Diamond known as the Heart of the Ocean yet still failed to win Rose's heart.
She had been very tense when she saw the ship sinking, and she had seemed about to cry when Jack died. As for the sailor's story Severus had just told Zhang Tao, Tobias Snape had told it to him, though that Muggle had been an unfit father most of the time.
They had watched the same film but taken entirely different impressions from it. The Jack in the film was like the adventurer who had listened to the sailor and decided not to return to his bed, instead going to Paris to try to become a painter. But he had not found the success he craved there, so he had found a way to raise money to return to America, betting with two men from Norway in Liverpool.
If he had not won the ticket, he might have lost