Inauguration HP Style

Today is January 20th, 2009, inauguration day for the United States of America, and Ronald is being a baby. We had visited America because Ron

and Ginny were interested in the way these Muggles chose their leader. The campaigns seemed to entail much slandering of the opposing

candidate and very little presenting their views. Needless to say, Ron and Ginny were fascinated.

From the beginning Ron had been a staunch McCain supporter and Ginny was all for Hilary Clinton, you know power to the women and all that.

Harry was just there following Ginny, and I had supported Obama openly once Hilary was beaten for the nomination and Ginny couldn't possibly

get mad at me. (Have you ever been on the receiving end of one of her bat-bogey hexes, ouch!!)

We had stayed in America since the nominations were made official, even though we could have apparated back and forth or followed it from

England. The atmosphere was just charged, everyone seemed so excited that a new president was coming into office, and the fact that one of

them was African-American appeared to be a big deal to them. The day of the election, Ronald wanted to go out and vote, even though we

weren't citizens he argued we could use magic to get into the records. Thankfully, the American wizards had taken care of that by making the

machines impervious to magic.