Ron noted that Hermione was "brilliant, but scary." When they entered the chamber wearing the Invisibility Cloak, they found to their surprise that the beast was already snoring: "Snape""s already been here.They began rowing through the foggy seas, eventually ending up in New York City where they spotted the Statue of Liberty and the skyline of the city.The Secretary of Defense (Barry Kelley) announces cuts in the Defense Department budget:Since no great naval power menaces the free world oday, the Navy""s overwhelming preponderance of surface ships seems o be superfluous, hence the cuts in budget.In the citadel of the besieged city, an unconscious Faramir was saved from cremation on a funeral pyre, and his insane father (engulfed in flames) jumped to his death.