It had been a little over a week since the terrorist attacks of New York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania. The entire world had been rallied to the cause of the Americans. History itself had split. Last night, in their little flat in Chelmsford, Hermione had insisted on watching the special address to Congress delivered by President George W. Bush. Although she wholeheartedly agreed with her boyfriend that the new President was an "intellectually incurious, unserious wanker" (her words), neither one of them could help but be moved by the plight of their neighbors from across the pond.