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Previously on chapter 2

"I except." He said quietly.

Severus looked back at the boy who looked to have made a hard decision.

Severus nodded "Well then go collect your stuff and put it in the hall while your guarding work out the paperwork.

Harry nodded and left to pack, wondering if he just made a deal with the devil.

Chapter 3 - We're Where?

Harry gathered all his belonging and took them downs stairs including the things he had hidden under the floor boards. The last trip he made up the stairs was to collect Hedwig. When he came back down Snape was waiting next to his stuff.

"Is that it?" Snape asked once Harry had reached him.

Harry nodded. Snape then took out his wand and shrunk everything, except Hedwig and her cage, before putting it all in his pockets. He then seized Hedwig from Harry and took hold his shoulder before he could do anything, Snape apperated them out of the hallway of 4 Privet Drive.

They arrived on a golden beach somewhere. Thankfully there was no Muggles around and it was also dark and a cold wind was blowing off the crashing waves. Though Harry didn't notice. His legs had buckled as soon as the appeared and was holding his head in his hands. Groaning from dizziness of not being prepared for the jump of countries.

Severus pulled out a small glass vile and put it to the boys lips. Harry drunk it without thinking, only when he had finished the continents he realise what he had done. Before he could complain the dizziness left and he didn't fill sick any more.

Snape held out his hand and pulled Harry to his feet.

"Now, since I am your adopted father you will address me as father or sir. And you will treat me as such. This country is quite suspicious of new arrivals so we will act the part of father and son. Do not try to hid anything if asked other wise we will be kicked out of this country before we can say qudditch. Is that understood?"

Harry nodded. "Yes, sir." Sna.no its father now, started to walk down the beach. Harry had to jog to keep up with the man's strides. Then something occurred to him. "Um, sir"

Severus looked at his newly acquainted son. "Yes?"

"Um, what country are we in?"

"We're in Australia."

Harry stopped dead in his trucks. Australia?! The man has to be joking!

Severus stopped a few paces away after realising his son was no longer at his side. The boy must of heard of the countries strict policy about letting wizards in and the rumours behind how they get rid of them.

"Forget what you heard about this country. Because this is the only place in the world that may except you into a school after being expelled and banished." Severus turned to keep walking but found a wand pointing at his face. He looked around him and two other auoras where also pointing their wands on them

The one in front of Severus addressed him "Your under arrest"

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Harry looked around the room him and his father was brought into. It was of averaged size, Had a large round table with chairs all around it. Harry thought it looked like a conference room. He and Severus sat next to each other on the left side of the room.

The auoras had port keyed them here so they did not know what the ministry had looked like. Harry looked at his father.

That was the last thing Harry ever thought he would call Snape. Though he can say here and know, he did not trust him. There had been to many years of hate to suddenly trust and like the man and even time may not change those facts.

Harry was pulled out of his thoughts when the door opened to reveal a forty year old women. She was slightly plump with light brown hair that was streaked with grey that almost looked like it had been done professionally.

She smiled at the two man and closed the door behind. "Sorry t keep you waiting gentleman, but even at 9:30 at night this place is a mad house."

She put down a couple of thick folders and pulled out her wand. Harry could feel Severus tensed up beside him and the mans hand was ready to draw his wand if there was any foul play. But they didn't have to worry. The women just shrunk the table to the size of a kitchen table so now there was only six chairs at the table with three of them being taken.

The women smiled at the two males "Let me introduces myself. I am Danika Jostens. The Mistress of Magic."

Harry gaped. Females could be ministers, well mistress in this case. He looked over at his father yet his face was impassive. Harry attention returned back to the minister..sorry mistress.

"Now I understand that you two tried to sneak into the country?"

"No, we did not try to sneak in, Mistress." Severus answered her.

The Mistress's eyes twinkled. Harry thought they looked some what like Dumbledore's.

"Then do tell what you two were doing."

Severus lent back into his chair "Shell I tell it from the start so I want have to answer questions all night?"

The Mistress nodded. "Please do"

"As it happen a new Minister of Magic of Britain was appointed to office after Cornelius Fudge 'retired' for not believing the return of the Dark Lord. Well the new Minister decided to 'clean up'. I was fired of my position of Potion Professor because of my background. Not that the headmaster wanted that but the school governors and the Minister all agreed. Then my son was expelled and banished for killing a Death Eater in self-defence though they didn't see it that way."

The Mistress nodded "Then why did you come here?"

"My son didn't become my son until this morning when his guardians signed the adoption papers. So up until that point he had been my student. And I have discovered a error in the decry. That if Harry finishes school and pass's all over his N.E.W.T's, then the banishment is suspended and he will be excepted back into the wizard community in Britain and I just want to look out for the boys best interest. The reason I chose Australia to start our lives again is that it's the only place that my except us."

"Well, your explanation is good but you haven't told me what type of background for what they fired you from"

Severus sighed "I was a Death Eater for two years. But I couldn't handle everything that went on around me. I then went to the Head Master of Hogwarts and confessed everything. I was expecting to be sent to Azkaban but instead I become a spy for the ministry. When the Dark Lord disappeared that all ended."

Harry was shocked that his father would just confess about his past. He snap's Harry's head off even if I look at him in the wrong way. He wasn't kidding when he said not to hid anything back.

The Mistress nodded and picked up her wand from the table, magicing two of the files from the table and leaving the one. She put her wand back down on the table and looked at the men in front of her. Danika new of the new minister and that he was a control freak and an idiot. She also new that the boy in front was Harry Potter, the boy who lived but she didn't want to say anything of it just in cause he didn't want the attention of something she was sore he couldn't remember. The man next to the boy was also well know as a great Potion Master. Danika new of him since she was a Potion Mistress before becoming the Mistress of Magic.

Well there story sounded plausible. "Well if I am to consider you into our community I will need some form of id, proof of adoption and someone to back your story or if not some form of letter that has been corresponded?"

Severus pulled out the adoption paper, his birth certificate and Harry's birth certificate he stole off Dumbledore and a his old school letter and Harry's he pulled from Harry's trunk. Severus passed them to the Mistress.

Danika looked them over, and did a few spells to see if they wore real. "They seem to be real." She looked up at them and smiled "Welcome to Australia."

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