Chapter Two: What's a Hunter? And why do you have a giant scythe?

Golden Trio PoV

For Harry Potter, this year didn't just want to go his way. His summer was right terrible, for starters. His friends barely write to him, and when they do, they give him no update on Voldemort's return, and Harry was stuck with his borderline evil relatives, the Durselys.

So, abusive aunt, uncle and cousin aside, if anything was even slightly different, Harry was blamed, and punished, harshly. Harry never said anything to the Professors, as most wouldn't believe him, or in the case of Snape, gloat and laugh a little. Yep, that sounded like the Potions Master.

After a month or so of the normal summer treatment, Dementors show up. Now, the things are scary enough when you can see them, but muggles can't so Dudley was being down right terrified by the things, till Harry shooed them away with his patronus.

So whats the first thing that Harry gets when he gets back? A letter from the Ministry saying he's expelled from Hogwarts, has a court hearing in august, and that their coming to snap his wand in half. Then another letter comes in, telling Harry to stay there, and that friends are coming to get him.

That was all in the span of about an hour or so, starting from the dementors, to the letters. Following that, Harry was taken to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, the very underground resistance to Voldemort.

When Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts shows up, he doesn't let Harry in on anything, at all, and keeps him, out of the Order. The person to have taken on Voldemort a few times, and saw the snake-wanna be come back from the dead. To saw Harry was pissed was an understatement.

The the trial, where they just about kicked Harry out, due to Harry being painted as 'the boy how cried Voldemort'. Dumbledore was Harry's saving grace, and the vote went in favor of harry, but just barely.

After that totally not rigged trial, Harry picked up his school supplies, waited another week, and was on his way to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The only place Harry could really call home. So of course the Ministry just had to fine some way to ruin it. They did a very good job of it, as the new professor for Defense Against the Dark Arts, was the toad like lady from his trial, Dolres Umbridge. The toad wouldn't let them learn how to properly defend themselves, at all. "As long as you have the theory down, you should be fine" was all she said on the matter, in the annoyingly high pitched voice of hers.

And when she called Harry a liar, he just about lost it. He was an inch away from casting a stunning charm, even if he didn't quite know it, on the hag. Still, he ended up with detention, and it was, brutal, to say the lest. Seeing as how he had to write 'I must not tell lies' many times, with his own blood. Pretty extreme. Even Snape wouldn't do that, just mock you as you hand-cleaned the cauldrons, or the floor.

Now, its the weekend, and Harry, along with Hermoine and Ron, had decide to go for a walk on the school grounds, and maybe go visit Hagrid, if he was at the school. Apparently he was running a mission for the Order. So that left the Trio with no-one to really talk to outside the student body, and that number they could talk o inside the student body was very small, what with the Daily Prophet, the only newspaper the magical community had, was painting Harry as an attention seeking brat.

So, the three went on a walk, not really talking, but each thinking about somethings. For Harry, it was how the year has gone so far, and if it could get worse. For Hermoine, it was about Harry and Ron, but in a light that no one every associated with the smartest Gryffindor in Hogwarts. Ron was complaining In his head about how they were walking, and walking with no goal in sight.

As the group moved forwards, they saw a bright flash, and heard a crack, and then all was quite. It seemed as none of the other students, noticed it, but then again, there wasn't any other students outside. With the flash fading, the trio was able to see it was somewhere over the Forbidden Forest, as always. It never failed to have the crazy thing start happening in that forest.

"Come on guys, let check it out" Harry called to his friends. Seeing nothing better to do, the trio walked on into the woods, going in the general direction of the flash. A bit of walking, Ron grumbling, and Harry stopped, causing the others to bump into him. Ron was about to say something, but Harry shushed him. "listen" Harry whispered to his companions, as the group strained there ears, they could faintly hear another group talking, and it seemed to be getting closer.

"Hide" harry whisper-yelled to his friends. Seeing it as a good idea, the Golden Trio took cover behind the trees, and in the dead-looking shrubs that were near by. As the new group got closer, Harry could see them now, and what he saw was a mix between beauty and 'I'm going to kill you in the most over the top way possible'. Two of the group, the one dressed in black the and the one dressed in white were obviously armed. The white one had a rapier sword, with some sort of multicolored chamber, while the one in black had what looked like a really big cleaver. The one in red and the one in yellow didn't have easy to see weapons, but knowing his luck, those two had the more destructive weapons.

When the group came in range so that they could be heard, they all seemed to sound fairly young. Maybe sixteen or seventeen at the oldest. And the banter was very odd to Harry and his two friends.

"Weiss, you have any clue on how we got here?" the one in red asked, sounding young, and kinda whiny almost

"Ruby, I don't. Why do you keep asking me?" The one in white, apparently Weiss said, a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"Well, you are the heiress to the biggest Dust company in Vytal, so its not a bad guess to think that..." The one in black started to say, but stopped, and seemed to sniff the air. "We have company." she said calmly.

'How did she even know where here?' Harry thought, staying extremely still, but keeping his eyes on the group of four girls as they got closer to his, Hermione, and Ron's hiding spots. When the group go really close, Harry slowly slip down, hoping to better hid himself.

He heard some movement, the sound of something metallic unfolding, and when he looked up, he was looking at the barrel of some sort of shotgun looking thing. It was the red one. "Come on, up now. We don't bite. Well, I don't anyways." She said, her voice young and innocent sounding.

Slowly, Harry got up, and looking to his right he saw Hermoine and Ron in a similar manner. Yellow had gotten Ron, who now had a glazed over look in his eye, and Harry could see why. Yellow was, out of all the girls, more, ah, 'devolved', then the rest. Black had gotten Hermoine, and she looked slightly mad at Ron. 'great, just what I need, the love birds pissed at each other.' Harry thought as his trio was herded together.

"Alright, lets keep this simple. Answser our questions, and we let you go. Don't, and we force you to take us to the closest from of civilization." This came from the girl in white, Weiss if the that was her name. They might have used false names.

"Weiss, don't be so mean. They might be less helpful when you hold them at rapier-point." This came from Red. She walked up to the group, folding up her shotgun-thing into a smaller rectangle, placing on her back and walked up to the group, lowering Weiss's blade.

"Sorry about that. Weiss here can get a bit, jumpy at times. My name's Ruby. The one in black is Blake, and that's Yang in yellow over there." Ruby pointed at the other two girls as she said there names. "Do you guys think you could point us in the direction of a town, to lead us to one?" Ruby asked, a fairly innocent question.

Looking back at Ron and Hermoine, they nodded yes and shrugged their shoulders, respectively. Looking back at Ruby and her friends, Harry nodded yes. "You can follow us, just put up your weapons. It wouldn't be a good idea to start a scene. And if anyone says anything to you that could be taken as an insult, just ignore them for now." Harry said, as she turned around to walk back to Hogwarts. "Just one question, what are you guys, and why are you all heavily armed?" Harry asked as he walked on, Ruby and Co. following behind.

"We're Huntress in training. If we weren't armed, the Grimm would rip to shreds." This came from Yang, sounding cheerful as she said that. What in the bloody hell is a Grimm? Harry thought as the group of seven walked on.

Before they got far, Ruby pulled out here shotgun-thing, unfolded it more so it looked like a scythe, and fired it into the air three times. "That should let the others know where we are." Ruby said as she folded up her scythe-rifle thing.

Others? God help us. Harry thought. These people seem less then sane. Really hope this other group is a bit more normal

A/N: Well, hope that was good. Its also much longer then the first chapter, but I felt that I had to summarize the first part of OotP to help the people that hadn't read it. This Lone, signing off