Ok… here is the next chapter… I don't know what London is really like, I've
never actually been there. Nor do I now the time zone changes, and I was
too lazy to look em up. So ignore those details. Please, tell us what you
think. I should have a chapter up by next weekend. But no grantees, I
have to go back to school. *Groan* READ AND REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They orbed to a small alley in the thick of London. They walked to the center of the alley where they could see both ends. There were busy shoppers and business people rushing off to their next destination filling the streets in either direction. Each one in turn took a moment, and spun around, trying to decide what to do next and to let the scene before them soak in. "Which way do we go?" Piper asked, looking around.
"I don't know." Phoebe said, doing the same thing.
"Beats me." Leo said, sitting on a crate in lying around.
"We look for the Leaky Cauldron. That is how you get to Diagon Alley." Prue said, she looked down both sides, trying to decide which way to go.
"How many times have you read that book?" Phoebe asked. She was astonished that those words rolled off Prue's tongue so easily.
"I don't know, maybe four or five times. It is one of my favorites." Prue said.
"We need to get you a life Prue." Piper said, taking a seat next to her husband on another crate.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Phoebe, could I borrow the book." Prue said, looking at Phoebe.
"Yeah sure." Phoebe put the backpack down and began to search through it. She handed the book to Prue, who opened it and began to flip through the pages determinately.
"Ha!! Found it. Here is what we are looking for. An old pub, called the Leaky Cauldron, it's easy to miss. It is squished between a large bookshop and record store." Prue cried, reading from the book. "But we may not be able to see it. Muggles can't."
"Muggle?" Piper asked.
"Non-magic folks." Prue instructed, again she went to looking for a place to start.
"But we're magical." Piper pointed out.
"Different types of magic." Prue said, she was saying this all absent mindedly.
Piper and Phoebe turned to Leo for some answers, but he just shrugged his shoulders, and shook his head. "Beats me. I've never read the book. You guys are Wicca, but I have no idea what these guys are."
"Ok, what are we looking for again Prue?" Phoebe asked. Prue was still spinning in circles looking around.
"The Leaky Cauldron, or a bookstore, or a record shop." Prue replied.
"Well, this alley is behind a bookstore." Piper pointed to a sign directly across from her that read "Close to Home: Bookstore for all" Prue turned and saw, looking very ashamed that she didn't notice it earlier. Prue quickly stuffed the book back into Phoebe's backpack.
"Well, now we will go see what is on the other side." Prue said, leaving Piper, Phoebe, and Leo to follow after her.
"There it is." Prue said in awe as she saw next to the bookstore, The Leaky Cauldron. Sure enough, just like Prue said, there was a record shop right next to it. Piper stared at it in disgust. It was really shabby looking, some of the letters falling off, and it looked like it hadn't been painted in centuries. "Ok, now what?" Piper asked.
"We go in." Prue said, charging her way through the door. Inside, it was dark and shabby. It was entirely lit with candles, and the tables were all poorly made out of old wood. A rat scurried across the floor, but no one seemed to notice. People were sitting at the tables, and there couldn't have been more than ten people inside. In the back corner were two boys, and a girl, no older than fifteen talking in hushed voices, in the middle of the room was an old man, with a very long beard talking to a man that had to easily be the biggest person Phoebe had ever seen. Scattered here and there were other people, a woman with long black hair sat scolding her young daughter to sit up straight. At the bar, there was one person passed out from too much to drink, and a bar tender trying to poke the guy awake. Piper instantly noticed that they were all wearing the funniest clothing that she had ever seen. All were black dress type things. When Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Leo burst through the door, they all grew quiet and all eyes were on them. They looked like outsiders with their jeans and t-shirts.
"Can I 'elp ewe?" The bartender asked. He was unsure weather they belonged there, they certainly didn't look like they fit in. They remained silent. They had no idea how to explain their situation to these people without exposing them. The bartender eyed them suspiciously. "Are ewe muggles?" he asked.
Prue had an answer to that. "Kinda." She said sheepishly.
"Kinda? How could you kinda be muggles?" He asked.
"We are witches, but not like you guys." Prue said, she was getting bolder by the moment. Piper fought herself an inside laugh. Prue could go up and give all her courage to a demon without hesitation, but when it came to normal strangers, she held back.
"Where are your wands then if you are really not muggles and witches?" The bartender demanded. The mother had stopped scolding her daughter, who was now practically lying down, the kids were staring intensely at them, the large man stared at them with skepticism, the old man only smiled, and the last guy was still passed out.
"Wands?" Piper asked. "We don't have wands..."
"Then you are muggles." The bartender concluded, before Piper had a chance to finish what she was going to say.
"BUT… we still do magic." She finished. The big guy snorted, and the little girl perked up at that.
"Prove it." The bartender demanded again. Prue turned to Phoebe, Piper, and Leo, and shrugged her shoulders in a way that clearly said 'why not?' Prue was first, she made her self astro project herself next to the guy at the bar. She poked him once, and he woke up. He stared at her, smelled gaily, and passed out again. Prue then made one of the drinks fly around the room, and land back where it started without spilling a drop. They stared at her in disbelief, but she had their attention. Piper went next. She froze the room, and to her surprise they all froze. "You would think that they wouldn't, if they are witches and wizards." She said as she, Prue and Phoebe rearranged themselves around the room. She unfroze it, and the people looked around astonished to find the girls in different parts of the room. This raised questions on how she was able to do that. It was ten minutes later when they finally understood that Piper had frozen the room, and only she Prue and Phoebe could move. Phoebe then levitated. She tried to explain that she also had premonitions, but the room was really skeptical about that. The kids in the back even burst out laughing. Leo orbed to a different part of the room, and the room gave an applause. "Why didn't I get an applause?" Phoebe asked Piper in a mock hurt.
"Impressive, I have seen few that can do that." The old man said wisely, standing up in his place. "I just have one question, what are you doing here, with our kind?"
"Um… remember how I said that I got those premonitions? Well I had one, and my sister helped me pinpoint it to here." Phoebe said.
"Who are you?" The bartender asked.
"I'm Prue, and this is my sister Piper and my sister Phoebe, and Piper's husband Leo." Prue said, indicating each of them in turn.
"Three. Are you the Charmed Ones?" The old man asked.
"Yes. You've heard about us?" Prue asked. She had read all of the Harry Potter books, and never once had she read about them acknowledge other types of magic.
"Yes, I needed to do some research when I was younger, and Wicca was part of it." The old man said. "How did you find this place?"
Prue signaled for Phoebe to turn around so that she could get into the backpack. She reached in and pulled out the Harry Potter books. She held it up. "Here," Phoebe whispered, handing the bag to Piper. "The bag is getting too heavy. Man, the Book of Shadows can weigh a ton after that long." The old man looked at the book in Prue's hand, and smiled all knowingly. "Ah yes. Knew someone would look for this place. Many a-times I have seen muggles looking for The Leaky Cauldron, but none have found it. It is a shame that J.K. Rowling decided to write those books. Squibs can get their revenge in the oddest manor. At least muggles think that it is all fantasy."
"You mean these stories are real?" Leo asked amazed.
"Quite. I myself have been portrayed in the book. I am Albus Dumbledore, my companion is Hagrid and I believe the heroes in the books are sitting over in the corner." Dumbledore indicated to the kids, and signaled for them to come forward. "Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger." The kids looked sheepishly nervous at the group, the attention was killing them.
"He's the one." Phoebe whispered to Piper and Leo. Prue was going on with Dumbledore about the books and, even if they tried, could not be pulled away.
"Which one?" Piper whispered back.
"The one with the black hair." Phoebe said, pointing at Harry.
"Are you sure?" Leo checked.
"Positive."
"Well, at least we know we are in the right spot." Piper said.
Prue turned to them. "Phoebe, was it day or night?" she asked.
"Um… night. Definitely night,"
"Thanks." Prue said, turning back to Dumbledore.
"What was that all about?" Piper asked Phoebe.
"Probably explaining my premonition."
"Why is she doing it? You're the one that saw it."
"I know, and I'd point that out, but look at her, I like my head where it is. And if I tell her that, my head would be on a steak in the middle of Wyoming."
"Ok, here's the deal, we are going to stay here until night. At that point, someone will open up the passage, and we will go into Diagon Alley and hold a steak out." Prue said, turning back to her family. The people in the room, for the most part had returned to normal. The bartender was once again attempting to wake the guy, the girl was being scolded by her mother for spilling her drink, the kids were back at their table. Dumbledore and Hagrid were the only ones not doing what they were before the Halliwells entered.
"What time is it now?" Phoebe asked. Piper looked at her watch. "10 till 10." She answered.
"Actually, it is about four. You forgot that we changed six time zones." Prue corrected.
"That gives us three maybe four hours until dark." Phoebe said. At this point they had begun to meander their way to a table near the back. She collapsed in a chair. "Piper, hand me the book for a second." Phoebe asked.
"Which one?" Piper asked. There were two books in the bag. In this instant Phoebe could have easily been talking about either.
"Book of Shadows." Phoebe said, Piper gently pulled the old book out of her bag and placed it on the table. "Ok… What does the book say about this demon?"
"You didn't look before we left?!?!?!?" Prue exclaimed. "I could lose my job because I have left so many times, and you're telling me that you didn't even research before you made me leave work? Christopher is going to have my head!!!!"
"Oh come on Prue, tell me that this is not worth it." Phoebe said, flipping through the pages of the book. "And, we called you as soon as I got it, just like you asked us to. You didn't ask us at home weather we had checked the book."
"She makes a good point Prue." Piper said.
"Well, you guys are the ones that are going to help me think of an excuse for Christopher."
"Um… one of us is in the hospital." Phoebe suggested, she had almost been completely absorbed in the book.
"I've over used that one."
"Too bad that it's true." Piper said. "What about your aunt died?"
"That would work, if it weren't for that fact that, Piper, we don't have any aunts."
"Well, since you know you have to lie, why not lie about having an aunt. Or say that she was such a great friend to Grams, that she was like an aunt to you.'
"I haven't used a death in the family yet. That would work." Prue took out her cell phone, and started to try to make the call. But to her dismay it wouldn't work. "I knew I should have gotten more roaming when I got this. Phoebe, I'm borrowing the book from you." Prue said, grabbing the book from Phoebe.
"Sure Prue, I wasn't done anyway."
"Thanks Phoebe."
"What are you looking for Prue?" Piper asked, stretching to look at the pages that Prue was skipping over.
"A spell to make my roaming better." She stated.
"That is personal gain."
"Almost no. See if I don't call in saying that I may not be there for the rest of the week, the whole magazine will be trouble. But if I do call in they can reassign my shoots and the magazine is saved. Ha! I'm doing this for the good of the magazine."
"I don't know if that works Prue." Leo cautioned.
"Well, screw the rules Leo. Just once."
"Well… you may not find anything in there." Phoebe said. She knew that book backwards and forwards.
"Phoebe, could you possibly write me a spell? Please?"
"Why don't you just find a pay phone?"
"You won't find one around here." A voice said from behind them. Prue and Phoebe turned and looked. It was the girl from the table with the two other guys. "Muggle things don't work here." She stated.
"Uh… thanks for the tip." Prue said, putting her phone away.
"It's Prue right?" She said, holding her hand out for Prue to shake. Prue nodded her head, and shook her hand. "I'm Hermione."
"Hi." Prue said, with Leo, Piper and Phoebe echoing her.
Hermione's friends gathered around her, and the taller of the two boys spoke in udder amazement, "You guys did all of that without a wand?!?!"
"Ron, hush!" Hermione commanded. Ron looked at her annoyingly, but Phoebe laughed.
"Yeah. We just channel our emotions, and *wala* I can levitate. Would you like to sit down?" Phoebe asked. Ron's face was full of apprehension, and it looked like if he didn't sit down, he would fall over. Hurriedly, the three took the two remaining seats, and pulled up a seventh. They began to talk. Hermione seemed to want to talk about how they do their magic, and Ron and the third boy Harry, wanted to talk about being witches that lived like muggles. Ron thought that that was out of the world. Harry however found no problem believing it, he himself lived like a muggle during the summer holidays. Soon, a crowd came over to the table. All had flaming red hair, much like Ron's. There were older twin boys, and a younger girl. They approached the table, pulled up a second table and sat down. The Halliwells stared at them with much curiosity.
"Ron, you will never guess who we saw in The Quality Quidditch Store." One of the twins said.
"Hullo George, let me guess, You-Know-Who?"
"No silly, Dumbledore!" George answered.
"Yeah, I know, he was in here earlier." Ron answered
"Well, I figured that, but in the Quidditch Store?" The second twin asked.
"True, but who isn't a Quidditch fan?" Harry pointed out, he was a superb Quidditch fan, and played for the Gryffindor team.
"I'm not!" Piper said, inviting herself in the conversation.
"Who are you?" Asked the second twin, staring at her with much curiosity.
"Piper, you?"
"Fred, and this is my brother George. George look alive! And this thing is Ginny." Fred said, snapping George out of a daze, he was staring intensely at Phoebe, who hadn't noticed him. Ginny stuck her tongue out at Fred, and smiled.
"I'm Leo, Piper's husband." Leo said.
"And these are my sisters Phoebe and Prue over there." Piper finished. She sat at the middle of the table, making her a spokes person for both sides.
Dinner had come and gone, and the crew hadn't broken up. The rest of Ron's family had come back from shopping, and had joined them too. The table was now bursting with thirteen people. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Leo all began to leave, when a simple nod from Dumbledore's head told them that it was dark, and that their stakeout could begin.
"Could we come? I've never taken part in a stakeout before." Ron asked as the Halliwells stood up. They had told Harry about Phoebe's premonition earlier because he was the innocent in it. To their surprise he acted like it was no big deal when he was told that someone was out to kill him. Prue looked from Piper to Phoebe, to Leo, who looked from Piper to Phoebe, who looked at Piper. They had never actually had someone ask to watch them stakeout a demon. They were speechless.
"Umm… They are really boring." Piper said.
"Nothing can be worse than Trelawney's classes." Ron said, "Please? If my mum says it is ok?" Ron kept begging. Harry and Hermione were behind him nodding their heads excitedly. They too wanted to partake in the stakeout.
Prue looked at Ron's mother. "I don't see why not, but I want you back here by midnight, you have to do some shopping tomorrow morning, I want to beet the rush at Madam Malkin's. You need new robes Ron." Ron's ears turned red.
"Ok then, let's go!" Prue said. Piper, Phoebe, Leo, Ron, Harry and Hermione followed her. The next four hours were dreadfully boring. They had to stay quiet to sneak up on the demon, and he never showed. Prue had set her watch to go off at midnight. Ron jumped and found Prue's watch really interesting. "A watch that beeps on the hours. Weird!" But knowing that they were to go in now, the three younger kids turned around to head back to the Leaky Cauldron.
"Harry, I want you to be careful." Phoebe warned, putting her hand on Harry's shoulder, when she was hurled into a premintion.
"Phoebe, what is it?" Asked a concerned Piper and Prue.
"Same people, but it moved, there was a castle, and a lake, and mountains." Phoebe said, trying to explain what she just saw. Ron, Hermione, and Harry looked at each other and in unison said:
"That has got to be Hogwarts!!!!!!"
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They orbed to a small alley in the thick of London. They walked to the center of the alley where they could see both ends. There were busy shoppers and business people rushing off to their next destination filling the streets in either direction. Each one in turn took a moment, and spun around, trying to decide what to do next and to let the scene before them soak in. "Which way do we go?" Piper asked, looking around.
"I don't know." Phoebe said, doing the same thing.
"Beats me." Leo said, sitting on a crate in lying around.
"We look for the Leaky Cauldron. That is how you get to Diagon Alley." Prue said, she looked down both sides, trying to decide which way to go.
"How many times have you read that book?" Phoebe asked. She was astonished that those words rolled off Prue's tongue so easily.
"I don't know, maybe four or five times. It is one of my favorites." Prue said.
"We need to get you a life Prue." Piper said, taking a seat next to her husband on another crate.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Phoebe, could I borrow the book." Prue said, looking at Phoebe.
"Yeah sure." Phoebe put the backpack down and began to search through it. She handed the book to Prue, who opened it and began to flip through the pages determinately.
"Ha!! Found it. Here is what we are looking for. An old pub, called the Leaky Cauldron, it's easy to miss. It is squished between a large bookshop and record store." Prue cried, reading from the book. "But we may not be able to see it. Muggles can't."
"Muggle?" Piper asked.
"Non-magic folks." Prue instructed, again she went to looking for a place to start.
"But we're magical." Piper pointed out.
"Different types of magic." Prue said, she was saying this all absent mindedly.
Piper and Phoebe turned to Leo for some answers, but he just shrugged his shoulders, and shook his head. "Beats me. I've never read the book. You guys are Wicca, but I have no idea what these guys are."
"Ok, what are we looking for again Prue?" Phoebe asked. Prue was still spinning in circles looking around.
"The Leaky Cauldron, or a bookstore, or a record shop." Prue replied.
"Well, this alley is behind a bookstore." Piper pointed to a sign directly across from her that read "Close to Home: Bookstore for all" Prue turned and saw, looking very ashamed that she didn't notice it earlier. Prue quickly stuffed the book back into Phoebe's backpack.
"Well, now we will go see what is on the other side." Prue said, leaving Piper, Phoebe, and Leo to follow after her.
"There it is." Prue said in awe as she saw next to the bookstore, The Leaky Cauldron. Sure enough, just like Prue said, there was a record shop right next to it. Piper stared at it in disgust. It was really shabby looking, some of the letters falling off, and it looked like it hadn't been painted in centuries. "Ok, now what?" Piper asked.
"We go in." Prue said, charging her way through the door. Inside, it was dark and shabby. It was entirely lit with candles, and the tables were all poorly made out of old wood. A rat scurried across the floor, but no one seemed to notice. People were sitting at the tables, and there couldn't have been more than ten people inside. In the back corner were two boys, and a girl, no older than fifteen talking in hushed voices, in the middle of the room was an old man, with a very long beard talking to a man that had to easily be the biggest person Phoebe had ever seen. Scattered here and there were other people, a woman with long black hair sat scolding her young daughter to sit up straight. At the bar, there was one person passed out from too much to drink, and a bar tender trying to poke the guy awake. Piper instantly noticed that they were all wearing the funniest clothing that she had ever seen. All were black dress type things. When Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Leo burst through the door, they all grew quiet and all eyes were on them. They looked like outsiders with their jeans and t-shirts.
"Can I 'elp ewe?" The bartender asked. He was unsure weather they belonged there, they certainly didn't look like they fit in. They remained silent. They had no idea how to explain their situation to these people without exposing them. The bartender eyed them suspiciously. "Are ewe muggles?" he asked.
Prue had an answer to that. "Kinda." She said sheepishly.
"Kinda? How could you kinda be muggles?" He asked.
"We are witches, but not like you guys." Prue said, she was getting bolder by the moment. Piper fought herself an inside laugh. Prue could go up and give all her courage to a demon without hesitation, but when it came to normal strangers, she held back.
"Where are your wands then if you are really not muggles and witches?" The bartender demanded. The mother had stopped scolding her daughter, who was now practically lying down, the kids were staring intensely at them, the large man stared at them with skepticism, the old man only smiled, and the last guy was still passed out.
"Wands?" Piper asked. "We don't have wands..."
"Then you are muggles." The bartender concluded, before Piper had a chance to finish what she was going to say.
"BUT… we still do magic." She finished. The big guy snorted, and the little girl perked up at that.
"Prove it." The bartender demanded again. Prue turned to Phoebe, Piper, and Leo, and shrugged her shoulders in a way that clearly said 'why not?' Prue was first, she made her self astro project herself next to the guy at the bar. She poked him once, and he woke up. He stared at her, smelled gaily, and passed out again. Prue then made one of the drinks fly around the room, and land back where it started without spilling a drop. They stared at her in disbelief, but she had their attention. Piper went next. She froze the room, and to her surprise they all froze. "You would think that they wouldn't, if they are witches and wizards." She said as she, Prue and Phoebe rearranged themselves around the room. She unfroze it, and the people looked around astonished to find the girls in different parts of the room. This raised questions on how she was able to do that. It was ten minutes later when they finally understood that Piper had frozen the room, and only she Prue and Phoebe could move. Phoebe then levitated. She tried to explain that she also had premonitions, but the room was really skeptical about that. The kids in the back even burst out laughing. Leo orbed to a different part of the room, and the room gave an applause. "Why didn't I get an applause?" Phoebe asked Piper in a mock hurt.
"Impressive, I have seen few that can do that." The old man said wisely, standing up in his place. "I just have one question, what are you doing here, with our kind?"
"Um… remember how I said that I got those premonitions? Well I had one, and my sister helped me pinpoint it to here." Phoebe said.
"Who are you?" The bartender asked.
"I'm Prue, and this is my sister Piper and my sister Phoebe, and Piper's husband Leo." Prue said, indicating each of them in turn.
"Three. Are you the Charmed Ones?" The old man asked.
"Yes. You've heard about us?" Prue asked. She had read all of the Harry Potter books, and never once had she read about them acknowledge other types of magic.
"Yes, I needed to do some research when I was younger, and Wicca was part of it." The old man said. "How did you find this place?"
Prue signaled for Phoebe to turn around so that she could get into the backpack. She reached in and pulled out the Harry Potter books. She held it up. "Here," Phoebe whispered, handing the bag to Piper. "The bag is getting too heavy. Man, the Book of Shadows can weigh a ton after that long." The old man looked at the book in Prue's hand, and smiled all knowingly. "Ah yes. Knew someone would look for this place. Many a-times I have seen muggles looking for The Leaky Cauldron, but none have found it. It is a shame that J.K. Rowling decided to write those books. Squibs can get their revenge in the oddest manor. At least muggles think that it is all fantasy."
"You mean these stories are real?" Leo asked amazed.
"Quite. I myself have been portrayed in the book. I am Albus Dumbledore, my companion is Hagrid and I believe the heroes in the books are sitting over in the corner." Dumbledore indicated to the kids, and signaled for them to come forward. "Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger." The kids looked sheepishly nervous at the group, the attention was killing them.
"He's the one." Phoebe whispered to Piper and Leo. Prue was going on with Dumbledore about the books and, even if they tried, could not be pulled away.
"Which one?" Piper whispered back.
"The one with the black hair." Phoebe said, pointing at Harry.
"Are you sure?" Leo checked.
"Positive."
"Well, at least we know we are in the right spot." Piper said.
Prue turned to them. "Phoebe, was it day or night?" she asked.
"Um… night. Definitely night,"
"Thanks." Prue said, turning back to Dumbledore.
"What was that all about?" Piper asked Phoebe.
"Probably explaining my premonition."
"Why is she doing it? You're the one that saw it."
"I know, and I'd point that out, but look at her, I like my head where it is. And if I tell her that, my head would be on a steak in the middle of Wyoming."
"Ok, here's the deal, we are going to stay here until night. At that point, someone will open up the passage, and we will go into Diagon Alley and hold a steak out." Prue said, turning back to her family. The people in the room, for the most part had returned to normal. The bartender was once again attempting to wake the guy, the girl was being scolded by her mother for spilling her drink, the kids were back at their table. Dumbledore and Hagrid were the only ones not doing what they were before the Halliwells entered.
"What time is it now?" Phoebe asked. Piper looked at her watch. "10 till 10." She answered.
"Actually, it is about four. You forgot that we changed six time zones." Prue corrected.
"That gives us three maybe four hours until dark." Phoebe said. At this point they had begun to meander their way to a table near the back. She collapsed in a chair. "Piper, hand me the book for a second." Phoebe asked.
"Which one?" Piper asked. There were two books in the bag. In this instant Phoebe could have easily been talking about either.
"Book of Shadows." Phoebe said, Piper gently pulled the old book out of her bag and placed it on the table. "Ok… What does the book say about this demon?"
"You didn't look before we left?!?!?!?" Prue exclaimed. "I could lose my job because I have left so many times, and you're telling me that you didn't even research before you made me leave work? Christopher is going to have my head!!!!"
"Oh come on Prue, tell me that this is not worth it." Phoebe said, flipping through the pages of the book. "And, we called you as soon as I got it, just like you asked us to. You didn't ask us at home weather we had checked the book."
"She makes a good point Prue." Piper said.
"Well, you guys are the ones that are going to help me think of an excuse for Christopher."
"Um… one of us is in the hospital." Phoebe suggested, she had almost been completely absorbed in the book.
"I've over used that one."
"Too bad that it's true." Piper said. "What about your aunt died?"
"That would work, if it weren't for that fact that, Piper, we don't have any aunts."
"Well, since you know you have to lie, why not lie about having an aunt. Or say that she was such a great friend to Grams, that she was like an aunt to you.'
"I haven't used a death in the family yet. That would work." Prue took out her cell phone, and started to try to make the call. But to her dismay it wouldn't work. "I knew I should have gotten more roaming when I got this. Phoebe, I'm borrowing the book from you." Prue said, grabbing the book from Phoebe.
"Sure Prue, I wasn't done anyway."
"Thanks Phoebe."
"What are you looking for Prue?" Piper asked, stretching to look at the pages that Prue was skipping over.
"A spell to make my roaming better." She stated.
"That is personal gain."
"Almost no. See if I don't call in saying that I may not be there for the rest of the week, the whole magazine will be trouble. But if I do call in they can reassign my shoots and the magazine is saved. Ha! I'm doing this for the good of the magazine."
"I don't know if that works Prue." Leo cautioned.
"Well, screw the rules Leo. Just once."
"Well… you may not find anything in there." Phoebe said. She knew that book backwards and forwards.
"Phoebe, could you possibly write me a spell? Please?"
"Why don't you just find a pay phone?"
"You won't find one around here." A voice said from behind them. Prue and Phoebe turned and looked. It was the girl from the table with the two other guys. "Muggle things don't work here." She stated.
"Uh… thanks for the tip." Prue said, putting her phone away.
"It's Prue right?" She said, holding her hand out for Prue to shake. Prue nodded her head, and shook her hand. "I'm Hermione."
"Hi." Prue said, with Leo, Piper and Phoebe echoing her.
Hermione's friends gathered around her, and the taller of the two boys spoke in udder amazement, "You guys did all of that without a wand?!?!"
"Ron, hush!" Hermione commanded. Ron looked at her annoyingly, but Phoebe laughed.
"Yeah. We just channel our emotions, and *wala* I can levitate. Would you like to sit down?" Phoebe asked. Ron's face was full of apprehension, and it looked like if he didn't sit down, he would fall over. Hurriedly, the three took the two remaining seats, and pulled up a seventh. They began to talk. Hermione seemed to want to talk about how they do their magic, and Ron and the third boy Harry, wanted to talk about being witches that lived like muggles. Ron thought that that was out of the world. Harry however found no problem believing it, he himself lived like a muggle during the summer holidays. Soon, a crowd came over to the table. All had flaming red hair, much like Ron's. There were older twin boys, and a younger girl. They approached the table, pulled up a second table and sat down. The Halliwells stared at them with much curiosity.
"Ron, you will never guess who we saw in The Quality Quidditch Store." One of the twins said.
"Hullo George, let me guess, You-Know-Who?"
"No silly, Dumbledore!" George answered.
"Yeah, I know, he was in here earlier." Ron answered
"Well, I figured that, but in the Quidditch Store?" The second twin asked.
"True, but who isn't a Quidditch fan?" Harry pointed out, he was a superb Quidditch fan, and played for the Gryffindor team.
"I'm not!" Piper said, inviting herself in the conversation.
"Who are you?" Asked the second twin, staring at her with much curiosity.
"Piper, you?"
"Fred, and this is my brother George. George look alive! And this thing is Ginny." Fred said, snapping George out of a daze, he was staring intensely at Phoebe, who hadn't noticed him. Ginny stuck her tongue out at Fred, and smiled.
"I'm Leo, Piper's husband." Leo said.
"And these are my sisters Phoebe and Prue over there." Piper finished. She sat at the middle of the table, making her a spokes person for both sides.
Dinner had come and gone, and the crew hadn't broken up. The rest of Ron's family had come back from shopping, and had joined them too. The table was now bursting with thirteen people. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Leo all began to leave, when a simple nod from Dumbledore's head told them that it was dark, and that their stakeout could begin.
"Could we come? I've never taken part in a stakeout before." Ron asked as the Halliwells stood up. They had told Harry about Phoebe's premonition earlier because he was the innocent in it. To their surprise he acted like it was no big deal when he was told that someone was out to kill him. Prue looked from Piper to Phoebe, to Leo, who looked from Piper to Phoebe, who looked at Piper. They had never actually had someone ask to watch them stakeout a demon. They were speechless.
"Umm… They are really boring." Piper said.
"Nothing can be worse than Trelawney's classes." Ron said, "Please? If my mum says it is ok?" Ron kept begging. Harry and Hermione were behind him nodding their heads excitedly. They too wanted to partake in the stakeout.
Prue looked at Ron's mother. "I don't see why not, but I want you back here by midnight, you have to do some shopping tomorrow morning, I want to beet the rush at Madam Malkin's. You need new robes Ron." Ron's ears turned red.
"Ok then, let's go!" Prue said. Piper, Phoebe, Leo, Ron, Harry and Hermione followed her. The next four hours were dreadfully boring. They had to stay quiet to sneak up on the demon, and he never showed. Prue had set her watch to go off at midnight. Ron jumped and found Prue's watch really interesting. "A watch that beeps on the hours. Weird!" But knowing that they were to go in now, the three younger kids turned around to head back to the Leaky Cauldron.
"Harry, I want you to be careful." Phoebe warned, putting her hand on Harry's shoulder, when she was hurled into a premintion.
"Phoebe, what is it?" Asked a concerned Piper and Prue.
"Same people, but it moved, there was a castle, and a lake, and mountains." Phoebe said, trying to explain what she just saw. Ron, Hermione, and Harry looked at each other and in unison said:
"That has got to be Hogwarts!!!!!!"