A/N well here goes nothing I am just speeding along thanks to my reviewers and I hope this helps a little with explanations.. but it probably wont

It is a short chapter

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------September 10th, England, The great hall------------

Albus Dumbledore was unsure of his decision for the first time in a very long time. When Severus had come to him with a request to bring an exchange student to Hogwarts Albus had been intrigued; their relationship with America had been tense at best for the last few decades. And before that it had been atrocious, the succession of the colonies had many people in the ministry of magic in a tiff and the Americans were none too happy with the loss of life the revolutionary wizards had created in the muggle populace of their new country.

So an act like this one was unheard of, and Albus was all for it until Severus had told him exactly whom it was that they were sending. Archer Augustus was from the well know house of Mandela an ancient house that held the power of five.

It seemed the darkness from the south was once again gathering, and this time the power of five was held in one boy one hope whom was no where near ready for what was to come.

Now he would have been sent to France or Rome if it had not been for Andre Prince, a distant cousin of Severus's, who had requested the boy be sent to Hogwarts to train under Severus. It seemed that the potions masters reputation in defense was know all over the wizarding world and his ties to Voldomort where only known in Europe.

After three months and a lot of consideration Albus had decided to allow the young man to attend his school. He was due at Hogwarts on September 1st like every one else, but a family emergency had held him in the states for a week and a half more, Severus had left earlier that day to pick up the young man.

Shaking himself out of his thoughts the headmaster stood turning to the students sitting in the great hall.

"Good evening children," he started smiling "I have an exiting piece of news for all of you, tonight there will be a new addition to our school. A foreign exchange student by the name of Archer Augustus will be joining us from America. So let's be welcoming and make him feel at home."

There was a hum of excitement in the hall and right on time the doors burst open and Minerva brought Archer in, he was tall and built with a shock of short dark red hair and light green eyes. Immediately all of the female populace of the school and quite a bit of the male half started whispering to each other, he was already popular. Albus smiled at him but the boy didn't seem to notice he was off in his own little world looking around at the students and at the stool. Severus slipped in as the young man took his seat on the stool and Minerva place the sorting hat on his head a few seconds passed before it jumped a bit and declared "SLYTHERIN!" Archer looked lost for a second before he caught Severus's eye and the professor tilted his head towards the Slytherin table. The applause was deafening and the old head master was happy that the students had taken his words to heart.

At the Slytherin Table

Draco Raised an eye brow at the red head that was making his way towards Slytherin the Archer family was a very old very prestigious family in the wizarding world and since they had married in to the Mandela family they had risen even farther in the society of the wizarding elite. The only thing bothering Malfoy was that the two families had not kept their contempt for the English a secret, why the heir to both would be coming to Hogwarts made no sense what so ever. As he made his way over looking quite lost Draco gave him a friendly smile and moved over so that Archer could sit next to him. Archer grinned and took the offered seat, Draco was happy to note that his fellow Slytherins followed his lead smiling and nodding at the newest addition to their house.

at the Gryffindor table

Ron rolled his eyes as Ginny made another comment about how "amazingly hot" the new boy was, all Ron could see was another Slytherin that would make his life hell… Harry on the other hand seemed quite interested in the new student seeing as he was staring at the table of snakes like it was a particularly thrilling match of Quiddich.

"mate you okay?" Ron asked lifting an eye brow and inclining his head towards his best friend.

"yeah Ron m' fine" Harry muttered back still staring at the Slytherins. Ron just rolled his eyes and turned back to his food he'd find out what was wrong with Harry later, right now he had food to eat.

A/N 2 well this is a short chapter sorry, I will try to get deeper in to Archers past next chapter and we will hear from Harry, I am sorry if things are still a bit hazy but I have a plot that needs to be worked up to, the next few chapters will clear some things up!

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