Death Becomes Her
"Shove over, Perry." Without waiting Sirius Black shoved Penny Perry to the next seat so he could adopt the seat across from his best friend, James; Penny would not normally choose to sit near the Marauders, but her best friend, Lily, was dating one of them and, thus, she was forced to interact with them, especially at dinner. Penny through a disgusted glare at Sirius, but before she could say anything, the first swarm of owls of sixth year flew into the Great Hall deleriving mail to the adolescent wizards and witches. Penny was surprised when an owl dropped a letter on her plate: she visited home so often (not that her peers knew that) that her family almost never sent mail. Lily gave Penny a concerned look, but her attention was drawn to her copy of The Daily Prophet. While Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter were engaging in a small food fight, Penny opened her letter. She saw that the letter was from Gringotts; Penny was confused, she never had the need to open an account, as she and her family did not live in the wizarding world. She looked down at the letter and read:
Dear Miss Perry,
We are contacting you regarding a request to run a blood lineage spell with you. You are not required to participate, however if you wish to, please contact me at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Attached are papers detailing the process and ramifications of possible outcomes of the spell.
May your gold flow freely,
Samgine
Blood lineage dpmnt of Gringotts Wizarding Bank
Penny did not even bother to look at the other documents before stuffing the parchment back into the envelope. She stood up and, responding to Lily's questioning look, said "I have to write back. Family emergency." Lily knew the code, but the Marauders were about to ask for more information before Penny took off, letter in hand.
Hogwarts had been home to many powerful witches through the millennia, but never one as powerful as Penelope Warren Perry Halliwell. To her peers, she was known as Penelope "Penny" Perry, best friend of Lily Evans and a chaser of the Gryffindor Quiddich team. Penny lived with her Grams and Great Aunts in her family's ancestral home "The Manor" and was known as "thrice blessed" to their Wiccan world.
After receiving the letter, Penny had many questions. The first was who would have requested is spell, and the only people she knew who could help her answer this (outside of the Gringotts goblins) were her family.
Rounding a corner, she entered an empty classroom; and sensing that no mortals were around, she orbed to her home. "Grams, Aunt Phoebe, Aunt Paige!" She called, looking for her aunts.
"Penelope!" Grams entered the room, "What are doing here? You haven't even been gone two days! Your classes don't start yet!"
"I got a letter." She thrust the letter into her Gram's hand and waited for her to read it.
Once finished, Piper looked at her granddaughter solemnly. "Paige and Phoebe are upstairs. There was another demon attack, so we're making some potions." Without another word, the two headed upstairs to e attic. Once in the attic, Penny scolded the older three women "You didn't call Aunt Mel or me for help! What are you thinking?"
"Penny, shush." Piper scolded. "We have more experience than the two of you doubled. We can handle a lower level attack."
Piper handed the letter to her sisters and while she waited, Penny flopped on her favorite antique couch. She was wondering how it survived so many demon attacks when her aunts finished. "Who would request this."
"I have no idea. But I think it's may not be a good idea to do it, in case it reveals something about your Wiccan heritage."
"But the not reason someone else would ask for this is if they though they were related to you," Paige butted in.
Phoebe continued, "But no one in the Wizarding World is related to Pen-"
"Except my mother." Penny said coldly.
Penny had never wanted anything to do with her mother; when she was four her father had died and her mother had left even before his funeral. On some sick level, Peny could sympathize with the woman: she loved her husband so much that she could not even bear live with their daughter. But the years passed and Penny's mother never returned. And then her Uncle Wyatt left, her Auntie Mel moved to New York, her grandfather left her Grams (again) to become an Elder, and her Great Uncles had long passed. When Penny was eleven, she received a letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Grams was forced to tell Penny about her mother's witch blood.
Penny did not need to say anything else. The older women knew how their beloved granddaughter felt about her mother and her lack of involvement. "Help us with this potion, Hon." Phoebe said softly.
"Which demon attacked?" Penny questioned.
"Just a lower level demon. We could use our powers to vanquish him but we're preparing in case he was sent by a more powerful demon." Paige explained.
The Halliwells were finishing the potion when a demon entered. "Incoming!" Phoebe yelled.
Before the other women could ready themselves, the demon threw an energy ball at Penny; Paige orbed the ball out of the path of her niece while Penny blew up the demon, using the powers she inherited from her thrice blessed, the Charmed Ones expected their granddaughter/niece to be as powerful as they were, if not more. Her "thrice blessed" status refers to her elder, wicca, and witch heritage. She already had Piper's powers, telepathy, empathy, and astral projection, not to mention the powers she inherited from her father's half-elder heritage.
Once finished with the potion, Piper insisted that Penny orb back to school "It's the start of your new term. Go have fun! Send Lily our love! Don't skip meals!" Piper knew her niece had a tendency to skip meals to go to the underworld or make up work she missed while in the underworld.
After hugging the older women, Penny orbed to the hallway outside of Gryffindor tower. She uttered the password ("broomsticks") and climbed through the Fat Lady's portrait hole. She entered the common room to find the start of term, unauthorized, party in full swing.