Charming Hogwarts*~~
Chapter 8*~~
Sisters*~~
Harry was in the Common Room with Ginny. They had told Hermione to meet them there at midnight. So far Ron didn't know anything. "You two have a LOT of explaining to do," Hermione said softly as she came down form the girls' dormitory steps.
"We know," Ginny said quietly, looking at her hands. She and Harry were sitting on one of the red love seats y the fire. Hermione seated herself in a squishy red chair.
"So, why exactly were you snogging down here?" Hermione asked, looking piercingly at the two of them. Harry bit his lip before answering.
"Lately, I've been finding myself drawn to Ginny. And apparently she feels the same way because when we were on the train we kissed and then someone in the ahll startled us. Later that night after we went to Madame Pomfrey about my ribs, we kissed again. And then in the common room this morning we were discussing what exactly we were and we got a little carried away," Harry said.
"Well, then, are you a couple?" Hermione asked excitedly. Ginny looked at Harry. He shrugged. She grinned and leaned against him.
"Yes," Ginny confirmed happily. "It seems we are!"
"How cute!" exclaimed Hermione giddily.
"You are starting to frighten me," Harry said as he played with Ginny's firey curls.
"You have to tell Ron," Hermione said seriously.
"Tell me what?" asked Ron from the stairs. "What're you all doing down here?" Ginny and Harry had sprung apart and Hermione was giggling like mad.
"I - we - HERMIONE!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Sorry," Hermione got out.
"Yeah right," Harry muttered. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"They're just explaining why they were snogging down here this morning," Hermione said sweetly.
"HERMIONE!" screamed Harry and Ginny.
"WHAT?!" exclaimed Ron.
"Ron, Harry and Ginny are now an official couple. If you plan on going psycho then I suggest you think otherwise because I will not speak to you if you harm Harry," Hermione said. "Which also means no snogging!"
"Bloody hell," was all Ron could manage to say.
"That's what I said," Hermione stated.
"Are you okay with this Ron?" Harry said quietly, his arms protectively around Ginny again.
"Hell, better you than Malfoy," Ron said with a shrug. "Let's go to bed, it's late."
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Paige got dressed quickly the next morning in black jeans with white thread and a white peasant shirt. She stuffed her feet into black high heels and orbed to the Great Hall, anxious to talk to Remus. She was happy to see that he was sitting in his usual seat already.
"Hello, Re," Paige said happily as she plopped into the seat beside him. He looked up, eyes bright.
"Hey, Paige," he replied. The Hall was quickly filling with students. Remus dropped his voice. "I'd give you a good morning kiss but the students are here and I think we may want to wait a little while before announcing that their teachers are having an affair."
Paige raised her eyebrows. "You're married, then?" she asked in a mock scandalous tone. Remus dropped his own mouth in mock shock (rhyme!).
"I though YOU were!" they exchanged smiles and Remus took her hand in his own, under the table. A Hogwarts banner that stretched across the front of the table hid this from view.
"So what exactly are we?" asked Paige carefully as she got some eggs with her free hand.
"I hope that we're an item," Remus said softly. Paige looked at him carefully before smiling.
"Alright then," she said. She stood up and walked out of the Hall. Remus stared after her for a moment before smiling happily.
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Harry was quite happy that day as he sat down in DADA. Ron and Hermione sat on his left while Neville took the seat on his right. "Hullo," Neville said.
"Hey," Harry replied.
"There's a rumor going around that you and Ginny are going out," Dean said form the row behind them. They all turned around.
"It's not a rumor," Harry said with a shrug.
"Ooh! You two are SO cute together," Lavender squealed.
"Yeah, but it took you guys almost as long as those two prats," Seamus said, his thumb pointing towards Ron and Hermione.
"HEY!"
"Hay is for horses," Paige said from the front of the room.
"You seem oddly happy, Professor Mathews," commented Parvati. "Almost like you were in love." Paige went red.
"Whatever, I just had a nice dinner last night," Paige said. "The desert was the best part."
"Sure," Hermione said sweetly. Paige glared at them.
"Now, you are studying my kind of witchcraft so it's only proper for you to meet The Charmed Ones and their whitelighter. I've invited my family here so-" but she was cut off by a flash of blue orbs. A group of people stood there, Wyatt among them.
"How did they do that? You can't Apparate into the school!" Hermione said.
"Ginny pointed out the same thing yesterday when Harry was in a coma," Paige said smiling. Hermione and Ron glared at their best friend who looked sheepish. "Orbing is different than Apparating because it uses different magic."
"Wow, you sound like a teacher," Leo said. Paige hit his chest lightly.
"Quiet," she said, smiling at him. "Alright, this is Leo, Piper, Phoebe, and of course you all know Wyatt. Leo and Piper are Wyatt's parents. Phoebe is the middle sister which means Piper is the oldest." Phoebe put her arm around Paige's neck.
"See, she really does love us," Phoebe said. Paige rolled her eyes.
"Of course I do," Paige said. "I'd never dream of moving out."
"Don't start," warned Piper.
"Right, as you all know each sister has a different power. Piper can freeze time and blow things up. However, witches and other magical beings do not always freeze with her powers. Everything blows up though. Mind showing them?" Paige asked Piper.
"Not at all," Piper replied. She looked around the room before her eyes landed on Harry's book. "Here." She grabbed it and threw it into the air. She blew it up and then froze the pieces.
"That comes in handy when wine glasses fall," Leo said. Piper smiled at him.
"Uh, Leo can you heal Harry's book?" Leo nodded and let his healing powers mend the book. He tossed it back to Harry who caught it with ease. "Now Phoebe can levitate and get premonitions."
Phoebe concentrated and drifted into the air. "I can't turn my premonitions on and off though," she said as she floated back to the ground. Hermione raised her hand and Phoebe smiled at her. "Yeah?"
"Are your premonitions like predicting the future?" she asked slowly.
"Not exactly. These things all defiantly would happen if we didn't go to counter them. Sometimes they are of the past too," Phoebe said.
"What's your powers Professor Mathews?" asked Neville.
"The third sister wasn't originally Paige," Leo said. "Prue was. She was killed a few years ago by a demon we were fighting. She could move things with her mind and could leave her body and create another solid copy of herself some other place."
"What exactly happened to her?" asked Lavender.
"You don't ask, you prat. If people didn't happen to know how my parents died I'd be much happier," Harry said evenly. The sisters and Leo smiled.
"It's alright," Piper said. "Both of us were actually dead but Leo could keep one of us alive. He picked me not because he loved me but because Prue would have killed him if he hadn't."
"But because Paige is half whitelighter her powers are different than Prue's were," Leo said. "She can move things with her mind but she can also orb. And when she meditates she floats."
"Show us?" pleaded Dean.
"We showed them, you have to too," Phoebe said. Paige rolled her eyes. Then she orbed from where she was to the back of the room and back again.
"There," she said.
"And the calling?" Piper insisted. Paige sighed and looked around.
"Quill," she said. Her outstretched hand now held Parvati's quill.
"That's bloody brilliant!" exclaimed Ron.
"No duh," breathed Hermione. Paige grinned despite herself. She sent he quill back to Parvati.
"Now, I showed you all of this because I believe that you can keep a secret," Paige said, looking at them all in the eyes. "You can't start rumors around the castle about this. It doesn't leave this room - unless you're telling Ginny Weasley. She is actually being moved up in DADA and Charms so she'll be able to be in this class."
"My girlfriend is a Hermione," Harry said quietly to Ron who grinned at him.
"And mine IS Hermione," he said back. They were brought back to attention as Paige started talking again.
"I thought you might like to ask us some things and instead of trying to predict your questions and answer them before you say them, I'll just let you ask them," Paige said. "So go ahead."
Hermione's hand was actually second in the air this time. Dean's was first. "Are any of you single?"
"DEAN!" shrieked Lavender.
"Neville wanted to know!" defended Dean.
"No he didn't, he likes Luna Lovegood," Hermione said lazily. Neville went red.
"I am," Phoebe said smiling. "Me and Paige are single." But she felt a kick in her shins and turned to look at Paige. "What you ARE! OH! You're sweet on R-" but Paige slapped her hand on her sister's mouth.
"Well, enough of THAT question," said Paige in a flustered way.
"You like Remus," Harry said immediately. Paige was scarlet by then.
"Aw, you two did look so cute together," Hermione said.
"You're starting to sound like a GIRL!" Ron said disgustedly.
"That would be because I am," snapped Hermione.
"Any OTHER questions?" Piper asked, grinning like mad.
"What is the worst demon you have faced?" asked Lavender.
"There were two that affected us dramatically," Piper said. "One is Shaques who killed our oldest sister but brought us our new sister too."
"So, a demon killed your sister?" asked Parvati.
"Yes," Piper said. "It was actually one of the hardest things we've ever had to deal with."
"What could have possibly affected you nearly as much as someone you love dying?" asked Harry softly, his eyes distant. Piper and Phoebe immediately saw the hurt, pain, death, and knowledge in them.
"Cole," Phoebe said simply. "He was a demon known as Balfazore. He got close to us by trying to get me to fall in love with him. Only he fell in love too. But then Cole turned good and was a great man and helped us. And then I had to strip him of his powers so that a woman would stop her revenge. But he lived as a human.
"However, once we killed the Source of All Evil, the Source moved onto Cole and we got marred and he got me pregnant and I became, uh, Queen of the Underworld. Then I went good again and we killed Cole. But he was so powerful and he loved me so much he hung on and got out of the Watseland and came back with a LOT of demon powers. He tried to win me back but eventually he found it didn't work and my baby was gone- it sort of died- and then he went evil again and we finally killed him for good."
There was silence in the room. Neville slowly raised his hand. Phoebe smiled gratefully and nodded to him. "What do your parents do?"
"Our mother is dead," Paige said. "She's actually the one who was a witch and the only parent I share with my sisters. MY dad is a former whitelighter who was stripped of his powers and is now a not so great man."
"Our dad is still alive and he comes around a lot. He isn't a jerk off anymore," Phoebe said.
"He doesn't like our magic a whole ton but he likes the good we do. He really misses Prue. They had the most problems but were always the closest after Dad changed," Piper said a far off look on her face. Phoebe smiled as well.
"Next?" she said brightly. She walked over to Harry and picked up his wand. "These things are pretty cool. Wh-" but she froze for a while and then screamed and dropped Harry's wand. It clattered to the floor. Her eyes were wide on him.
"Phoebe, what did you see?" asked Piper quickly. Paige was alert, watching closely.
"I-I saw him being k-killed and his-his wife and his b-baby. And green and laughing and," Phoebe was staring wide eyed. Harry smiled sadly.
"You didn't see the future," Harry said hollowly. "You saw the past."
"What?" she asked.
"That was my parents. I was the baby. Voldemort was there. He killed my parents. That's what you saw. What I relive now and then. You saw my past," Harry said in the same tone.
"But there was something else," Phoebe said. "A quick flash of a graveyard and more green light and another dead body."
"Cedric Diggory, he was murdered during a tournament. I was there, it was Voldemort," Harry said.
"And then one last thing," Phoebe said, meeting his gaze. "Four people. There was a silver light just as someone tried to shoot the green one. And then it turned purple and the man had began to be - vanquished and then is stopped."
"That's not the past," Harry said frowning. "That has to be the future. Oh, well, time will tell."
"I," but Phoebe fainted.
"What's wrong with her?" asked Piper, leaning over her with Leo and Paige.
"Nothing," Harry said. "Despite the short time, she must have seen everything. Including Cedric and the nightmares, and everything. She knows my burden, my guilt. All you have to do is get Professor Dumbledore to perform a memory charm to relieve her of my guilt and stuff and not remember anything unneeded. She'll be fine."
Hermione and Ron exchanged looks before the bell rang. Harry rushed out to find Ginny.
Chapter 8*~~
Sisters*~~
Harry was in the Common Room with Ginny. They had told Hermione to meet them there at midnight. So far Ron didn't know anything. "You two have a LOT of explaining to do," Hermione said softly as she came down form the girls' dormitory steps.
"We know," Ginny said quietly, looking at her hands. She and Harry were sitting on one of the red love seats y the fire. Hermione seated herself in a squishy red chair.
"So, why exactly were you snogging down here?" Hermione asked, looking piercingly at the two of them. Harry bit his lip before answering.
"Lately, I've been finding myself drawn to Ginny. And apparently she feels the same way because when we were on the train we kissed and then someone in the ahll startled us. Later that night after we went to Madame Pomfrey about my ribs, we kissed again. And then in the common room this morning we were discussing what exactly we were and we got a little carried away," Harry said.
"Well, then, are you a couple?" Hermione asked excitedly. Ginny looked at Harry. He shrugged. She grinned and leaned against him.
"Yes," Ginny confirmed happily. "It seems we are!"
"How cute!" exclaimed Hermione giddily.
"You are starting to frighten me," Harry said as he played with Ginny's firey curls.
"You have to tell Ron," Hermione said seriously.
"Tell me what?" asked Ron from the stairs. "What're you all doing down here?" Ginny and Harry had sprung apart and Hermione was giggling like mad.
"I - we - HERMIONE!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Sorry," Hermione got out.
"Yeah right," Harry muttered. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"They're just explaining why they were snogging down here this morning," Hermione said sweetly.
"HERMIONE!" screamed Harry and Ginny.
"WHAT?!" exclaimed Ron.
"Ron, Harry and Ginny are now an official couple. If you plan on going psycho then I suggest you think otherwise because I will not speak to you if you harm Harry," Hermione said. "Which also means no snogging!"
"Bloody hell," was all Ron could manage to say.
"That's what I said," Hermione stated.
"Are you okay with this Ron?" Harry said quietly, his arms protectively around Ginny again.
"Hell, better you than Malfoy," Ron said with a shrug. "Let's go to bed, it's late."
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Paige got dressed quickly the next morning in black jeans with white thread and a white peasant shirt. She stuffed her feet into black high heels and orbed to the Great Hall, anxious to talk to Remus. She was happy to see that he was sitting in his usual seat already.
"Hello, Re," Paige said happily as she plopped into the seat beside him. He looked up, eyes bright.
"Hey, Paige," he replied. The Hall was quickly filling with students. Remus dropped his voice. "I'd give you a good morning kiss but the students are here and I think we may want to wait a little while before announcing that their teachers are having an affair."
Paige raised her eyebrows. "You're married, then?" she asked in a mock scandalous tone. Remus dropped his own mouth in mock shock (rhyme!).
"I though YOU were!" they exchanged smiles and Remus took her hand in his own, under the table. A Hogwarts banner that stretched across the front of the table hid this from view.
"So what exactly are we?" asked Paige carefully as she got some eggs with her free hand.
"I hope that we're an item," Remus said softly. Paige looked at him carefully before smiling.
"Alright then," she said. She stood up and walked out of the Hall. Remus stared after her for a moment before smiling happily.
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Harry was quite happy that day as he sat down in DADA. Ron and Hermione sat on his left while Neville took the seat on his right. "Hullo," Neville said.
"Hey," Harry replied.
"There's a rumor going around that you and Ginny are going out," Dean said form the row behind them. They all turned around.
"It's not a rumor," Harry said with a shrug.
"Ooh! You two are SO cute together," Lavender squealed.
"Yeah, but it took you guys almost as long as those two prats," Seamus said, his thumb pointing towards Ron and Hermione.
"HEY!"
"Hay is for horses," Paige said from the front of the room.
"You seem oddly happy, Professor Mathews," commented Parvati. "Almost like you were in love." Paige went red.
"Whatever, I just had a nice dinner last night," Paige said. "The desert was the best part."
"Sure," Hermione said sweetly. Paige glared at them.
"Now, you are studying my kind of witchcraft so it's only proper for you to meet The Charmed Ones and their whitelighter. I've invited my family here so-" but she was cut off by a flash of blue orbs. A group of people stood there, Wyatt among them.
"How did they do that? You can't Apparate into the school!" Hermione said.
"Ginny pointed out the same thing yesterday when Harry was in a coma," Paige said smiling. Hermione and Ron glared at their best friend who looked sheepish. "Orbing is different than Apparating because it uses different magic."
"Wow, you sound like a teacher," Leo said. Paige hit his chest lightly.
"Quiet," she said, smiling at him. "Alright, this is Leo, Piper, Phoebe, and of course you all know Wyatt. Leo and Piper are Wyatt's parents. Phoebe is the middle sister which means Piper is the oldest." Phoebe put her arm around Paige's neck.
"See, she really does love us," Phoebe said. Paige rolled her eyes.
"Of course I do," Paige said. "I'd never dream of moving out."
"Don't start," warned Piper.
"Right, as you all know each sister has a different power. Piper can freeze time and blow things up. However, witches and other magical beings do not always freeze with her powers. Everything blows up though. Mind showing them?" Paige asked Piper.
"Not at all," Piper replied. She looked around the room before her eyes landed on Harry's book. "Here." She grabbed it and threw it into the air. She blew it up and then froze the pieces.
"That comes in handy when wine glasses fall," Leo said. Piper smiled at him.
"Uh, Leo can you heal Harry's book?" Leo nodded and let his healing powers mend the book. He tossed it back to Harry who caught it with ease. "Now Phoebe can levitate and get premonitions."
Phoebe concentrated and drifted into the air. "I can't turn my premonitions on and off though," she said as she floated back to the ground. Hermione raised her hand and Phoebe smiled at her. "Yeah?"
"Are your premonitions like predicting the future?" she asked slowly.
"Not exactly. These things all defiantly would happen if we didn't go to counter them. Sometimes they are of the past too," Phoebe said.
"What's your powers Professor Mathews?" asked Neville.
"The third sister wasn't originally Paige," Leo said. "Prue was. She was killed a few years ago by a demon we were fighting. She could move things with her mind and could leave her body and create another solid copy of herself some other place."
"What exactly happened to her?" asked Lavender.
"You don't ask, you prat. If people didn't happen to know how my parents died I'd be much happier," Harry said evenly. The sisters and Leo smiled.
"It's alright," Piper said. "Both of us were actually dead but Leo could keep one of us alive. He picked me not because he loved me but because Prue would have killed him if he hadn't."
"But because Paige is half whitelighter her powers are different than Prue's were," Leo said. "She can move things with her mind but she can also orb. And when she meditates she floats."
"Show us?" pleaded Dean.
"We showed them, you have to too," Phoebe said. Paige rolled her eyes. Then she orbed from where she was to the back of the room and back again.
"There," she said.
"And the calling?" Piper insisted. Paige sighed and looked around.
"Quill," she said. Her outstretched hand now held Parvati's quill.
"That's bloody brilliant!" exclaimed Ron.
"No duh," breathed Hermione. Paige grinned despite herself. She sent he quill back to Parvati.
"Now, I showed you all of this because I believe that you can keep a secret," Paige said, looking at them all in the eyes. "You can't start rumors around the castle about this. It doesn't leave this room - unless you're telling Ginny Weasley. She is actually being moved up in DADA and Charms so she'll be able to be in this class."
"My girlfriend is a Hermione," Harry said quietly to Ron who grinned at him.
"And mine IS Hermione," he said back. They were brought back to attention as Paige started talking again.
"I thought you might like to ask us some things and instead of trying to predict your questions and answer them before you say them, I'll just let you ask them," Paige said. "So go ahead."
Hermione's hand was actually second in the air this time. Dean's was first. "Are any of you single?"
"DEAN!" shrieked Lavender.
"Neville wanted to know!" defended Dean.
"No he didn't, he likes Luna Lovegood," Hermione said lazily. Neville went red.
"I am," Phoebe said smiling. "Me and Paige are single." But she felt a kick in her shins and turned to look at Paige. "What you ARE! OH! You're sweet on R-" but Paige slapped her hand on her sister's mouth.
"Well, enough of THAT question," said Paige in a flustered way.
"You like Remus," Harry said immediately. Paige was scarlet by then.
"Aw, you two did look so cute together," Hermione said.
"You're starting to sound like a GIRL!" Ron said disgustedly.
"That would be because I am," snapped Hermione.
"Any OTHER questions?" Piper asked, grinning like mad.
"What is the worst demon you have faced?" asked Lavender.
"There were two that affected us dramatically," Piper said. "One is Shaques who killed our oldest sister but brought us our new sister too."
"So, a demon killed your sister?" asked Parvati.
"Yes," Piper said. "It was actually one of the hardest things we've ever had to deal with."
"What could have possibly affected you nearly as much as someone you love dying?" asked Harry softly, his eyes distant. Piper and Phoebe immediately saw the hurt, pain, death, and knowledge in them.
"Cole," Phoebe said simply. "He was a demon known as Balfazore. He got close to us by trying to get me to fall in love with him. Only he fell in love too. But then Cole turned good and was a great man and helped us. And then I had to strip him of his powers so that a woman would stop her revenge. But he lived as a human.
"However, once we killed the Source of All Evil, the Source moved onto Cole and we got marred and he got me pregnant and I became, uh, Queen of the Underworld. Then I went good again and we killed Cole. But he was so powerful and he loved me so much he hung on and got out of the Watseland and came back with a LOT of demon powers. He tried to win me back but eventually he found it didn't work and my baby was gone- it sort of died- and then he went evil again and we finally killed him for good."
There was silence in the room. Neville slowly raised his hand. Phoebe smiled gratefully and nodded to him. "What do your parents do?"
"Our mother is dead," Paige said. "She's actually the one who was a witch and the only parent I share with my sisters. MY dad is a former whitelighter who was stripped of his powers and is now a not so great man."
"Our dad is still alive and he comes around a lot. He isn't a jerk off anymore," Phoebe said.
"He doesn't like our magic a whole ton but he likes the good we do. He really misses Prue. They had the most problems but were always the closest after Dad changed," Piper said a far off look on her face. Phoebe smiled as well.
"Next?" she said brightly. She walked over to Harry and picked up his wand. "These things are pretty cool. Wh-" but she froze for a while and then screamed and dropped Harry's wand. It clattered to the floor. Her eyes were wide on him.
"Phoebe, what did you see?" asked Piper quickly. Paige was alert, watching closely.
"I-I saw him being k-killed and his-his wife and his b-baby. And green and laughing and," Phoebe was staring wide eyed. Harry smiled sadly.
"You didn't see the future," Harry said hollowly. "You saw the past."
"What?" she asked.
"That was my parents. I was the baby. Voldemort was there. He killed my parents. That's what you saw. What I relive now and then. You saw my past," Harry said in the same tone.
"But there was something else," Phoebe said. "A quick flash of a graveyard and more green light and another dead body."
"Cedric Diggory, he was murdered during a tournament. I was there, it was Voldemort," Harry said.
"And then one last thing," Phoebe said, meeting his gaze. "Four people. There was a silver light just as someone tried to shoot the green one. And then it turned purple and the man had began to be - vanquished and then is stopped."
"That's not the past," Harry said frowning. "That has to be the future. Oh, well, time will tell."
"I," but Phoebe fainted.
"What's wrong with her?" asked Piper, leaning over her with Leo and Paige.
"Nothing," Harry said. "Despite the short time, she must have seen everything. Including Cedric and the nightmares, and everything. She knows my burden, my guilt. All you have to do is get Professor Dumbledore to perform a memory charm to relieve her of my guilt and stuff and not remember anything unneeded. She'll be fine."
Hermione and Ron exchanged looks before the bell rang. Harry rushed out to find Ginny.