Chapter 15

Curses

That was so COOL!" Paige squealed, hugging her sister tightly as soon as the other students left.

"What was?" Phoebe asked once she let go.

"The way you told Parkinson off! Did you see her face?! Oh my God, I so love you!"

"Hehe, well, I guess it was kinda funny."

Paige looked at her like she was crazy.

"Okay, so it was really funny!" she admitted "But as a teacher I have to keep a, a umm,"

"Non-Partial?" Paige suggested.

"YES! I have to keep a non partial attitude towards my students."

"No you don't."

"Yes I do."

"No you don't"

"Yes I do."

"No you don't"

"Yes I do."

"No you don't."

"Oh, would you two stop it?!" A voice said behind them.

The turned around.

"PIPER!"

They ran over to her and pulled her into a crushing hug.

"I'm glad to see you guys too." She said when the let go.

"What are you doing here?" Phoebe asked amazed. "What about Wyatt?"

"Well, I though Leo and him should have some father-son quality time."

"And we can have some girl time!" Paige shrieked.

"Ha, no. You have classes." Piper said.

"I have lunch right now, for your information. And I don't have any other classes today either."

"Yeah Piper, she's right. We're hardly gonna get to see you anymore, please, please please?"

"We just saw each other, like three days ago." Piper argued.

Both Phoebe and Paige put on their begging faces.

"Okay, okay, just stop it with the puppy eyes, will ya?"

Both of them started jumping in joy, and grabbed Piper so she'd join in their little happy dance.

"Come on, we'll go to Hogsmead." Phoebe said.

"I can't go there remember?" Paige said sadly.

"Awe, what are we going to do then?"

"LEO!"

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"You know, this is the freakiest thing I've done in a while. Going back to Sisco and having dinner, and then coming back here for dinner, again." Paige commented as she and Phoebe headed towards the Great Hall.

"Yeah, but I think we've been trough crazier things, like Piper being turned into a banshee, Piper turning into a wendigo, you turning into a fairy tale witch, you turning into a vampire, you and me turning into clay figurines, me being queen of the Underworld, us"

"I get the picture Phoebes."

"Hehe, brings back memories doesn't it?"

"Phoebe are you sick?" Paige asked with mock-concern placing a hand on her forehead.

"Very funny Paige. I was just saying."

"Yeah, I know, but you just don't usually go all 'Oh, remember the good times?'."

"I know, I know."

"Professor Halliwell! Paige!"

They turned around and saw Hermione running up to them.

"Hey 'Mione."

"Hey Paige, where'd you go today? You kind of disappeared before lunch." Hermione asked.

"We went to lunch, out. We felt like a home cooked meal."

"Oh. OH! I get it!" Hermione exclaimed. "Cool. Professor, that was a really interesting lesson today, it was really fascinating."

"Thank you Hermione." Phoebe said, almost blushing. "I'm glad you think so, I was kinda nervous about it."

"Oh, and Paige this came for you." Hermione handed her a small envelope.

She opened it curiously.

Out fell a tiny piece of folded paper.

Paige unfolded it and read it.

"What's it say?" Phoebe asked.

"It's like a spell but it doesn't make any sense." She handed the note to Phoebe. "Why would someone send me a spell?"

Phoebe read it out-loud.

Final hour

Final day

Powers failing

Courage stray

Concealed within what we hide

Let this Magic

Save the light (AN: Very lame, just made something up.)

"It's not a spell, it's like a premonition." Phoebe stated.

"A premonition?" Hermione asked uncertainly.

"A prophecy of sorts."

"Oh."

"Yeah, big oh. This is bad isn't it Phoebes?" Paige asked.

"I don't really know."

"Maybe you should talk to Dumbledore?" Hermione suggested.

Before Hermione knew what they thought about it, the two sisters headed towards the office.

They made their way there as fast as they could.

Arriving at the statue of the Gargoyle, none of them knew the password.

"Well, this is just great isn't it?!" Phoebe said.

"Don't look at me! You're a teacher, you should know the bloody password!"

They both started laughing.

"You just said 'Bloody'." Phoebe managed to say.

"I know! I've been here way to long!"

"Okay, so let's just try this huh? How 'bout......Open Sesame!"

"That is so lame Phoebes!"

"At least I tried!"

"So?!"

"So?! You try!"

"Fine, I will!"

Silence

"Well?" Phoebe asked.

"I don't know!"

"Lookie here, Halliwell's in trouble!" Peeves taunting voice said as he came through the wall.

"It's not funny Peeves, we need to talk to Dumbledore." Paige said seriously.

"Silly girly, Dumbledore's eating."

"Actually, he is right here Peeves."

"Headmaster." The Poltergeist crocked and quickly disappeared through the wall again.

"Professor, we need to discuss something with you." Phoebe said. "Paige received this" she handed him the note. "We think it's serious."

"Hmm....Very interesting. Why don't we step into my office?" He walked up to the gargoyle. "Fizzing Whizzbees." (sp?)

"You now, I never would have guessed that." Paige whispered.

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"This...prophecy...Have either of you any idea what it might mean?" Dumbledore asked.

"No. But it can't be good." Phoebe stated.

"It's never good." Paige muttered.

"Indeed it isn't." Dumbledore said. "I think this prophecy, has something to do with the final battle between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort."

"What?" A rather shocked Phoebe asked.

"Yes, as surprising as it may sound, I think The Charmed Ones have a big part to play in the outcome of this battle."

"No. No we can't have. I mean, that's absurd right?" Paige rambled, looking from Dumbledore to Phoebe "Right?"

"I think he might be right Paige." Phoebe said. "Think about it: Final day, Final hour. That's the battle."

She looked over at Paige, to see if she understood.

"Concealed within what we hide. That our powers and the Book of Shadows. Let this Magic save the light. Our powers helping them. It all makes sense!"

"Oh my God." Paige said silently. "OH MY GOD!"

"Yes, I do believe that makes perfect sense Ms.Halliwell. I suggest you inform your sister and her husband of this as soon as possible."

"We will Headmaster, we will. Paige, we should go, now." Phoebe said and got up.

"Yeah, good night Headmaster."

"Good night girls and good luck.

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"This is really starting to annoy me!" Piper yelled after blowing up another demon.

Paige walked over to her. "I wonder if that washes away?" She said referring to the green spots on the wall.

"Okay, so you were saying Phoebes?"

"Oh, right. Well we have to find the spell as soon as possible. I mean the sooner as we're rid of this Dark Lord guy, the better."

"Okay. Then we need the Book of Shadows." Piper stated.

"I'm on that." Paige said confidently. Her two sisters looked at her. "You guys! Trust me!"

"We do trust you Paige, it's just that" Piper started.

"Book of Shadows!" And in a swirl of blue lights the book materialized in Paige's hands. "Wow...It worked." Paige said in complete amazement.

"You've been working out, huh?"

"Thank you. Okay, so what are we looking for?" Paige asked as she put the heavy book down on the coffee table. "'Cos I doubt Voldie's gonna be in the Book of Shadows"

"No, I doubt it."

"Oh..... Okay, well then what do we look for? Spells, potions, what?"

"I don't know, we've never had anything like this on our hands before." Piper said, flipping through the page's of the book.

"Well, we can rule out vanquishing spells and potions, 'cos that's not what we're trying to do right? You said Harry has to kill this guy." Phoebe said looking up from the book.

"What about a power-boosting spell?"

"Leo! Don't sneak up on us like that!" Piper shrieked.

"Sorry hunny." He said and sat down next to Piper on the couch.

"So, what did the Elders say?" Paige asked.

"Not much. They've never been very involved with the wizarding community."

"Wait, what about all the whitelighters and their charges and their witches and" Paige rambled.

"That's different. You three are Wiccan witches, which makes you different from the witches and wizards at Hogwarts." Leo told her.

"This is too confusing." Paige mumbled, resting her head on the sofa. "Well, did they have any useful information?"

"Well, according to the letter, your powers are supposed to help them. A power-booting spell could help Harry, or you could simply transfer your powers to him."
"Wait, wouldn't that end up with us using our powers to help ourselves? I remember last time we did that and I rather not live through that again." Paige said.

"Well, in a way yes. But then again you would be protecting innocents."

"Great!" Paige said and got up from the sofa. "Just great! How am I going to explain this one?!"

"Okay, let's save the world from another apocalypse." Phoebe muttered and followed Paige to the kitchen.

They were joined by Piper and Leo.

"Don't worry hunny, we'll fix this." Piper said comfortingly and gave her a hug.

"Yeah, we're the Charmed Ones. We've gotten out of worse." Phoebe said and gave her a hug as well.

"We'll come and you two as soon as we find anything out." Leo told them.

"Okay and we'll get you if we find anything." Phoebe assured them. "Okay, let's get out of here."

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The next morning Paige woke up feeling worse than she had in a long time. She somehow managed to drag herself to her bathroom and get a shower, get dressed and then down into the Great Hall.

Dropping down in her seat at the Gryffindor table Hermione eyed her with concern.

"Paige, are you okay?" She asked.

"Yeah....I'm fine....Totally fine."

"Are you sure?"

She looked up at her. "Have you ever felt like the world's working against you?"

"Oh, come on Paige, the world's not working against you." Ron said and patted her on the back.

"No, not the world, just every demon, warlock and other evil thing in it, and did I mention the Source of all Evil? Who happens to be my ex-brother in-law? Trust me, the world is working against me."

There were some laughs from her friends.

"It's not funny!" she exclaimed.

"We know it's not Paige, you just make it sound funny." Harry told her.

"So, what was it about that note?" Hermione asked.

"Nothing good. Just a little poem about the end of the world, sort of at least."

"Oh... That's umm, nice." Hermione said uncertain.

"Yeah, real nice. What ever happened to psycho Seers, and stuff like that. Now they result in notes?"

"Oh, you haven't met Trelawney yet." Ron said.

"Who's that?"

"Resident psychotic Seer."

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"Ms.Halliwell, you were not present in class yesterday, why?" Snape asked.

"Umm,..."

'Come one Paige think of something!' she yelled at herself mentally

"Family emergency." She stated simply.

"Ahh, and what kind of emergency?"

"It's umm, kinda personal, just ask my sis, she'll explain."

"Sister?"

'What is with the questions!' Her mind yelled

"Professor Halliwell, sir."

"Very well. Take your seat."

She did what he said and sat down next to her partner for the lesson, Neville Longbottom.

"Hi Neville."

"Hey Paige. Do you have any idea what this potion is?" He asked confused and pointed at the sheet they had received

"Umm, well...." She looked over the page. "A binding potion?!" She said a bit too loudly, drawing attention from the other students and the professor.

"Is there a problem Ms.Halliwell?" He asked calmly.

"Why are we making a binding potion?" she asked, not really thinking over what she was saying.

"A what?" some of the students asked confused.

"A binding potion Ms.Halliwell?"

"It would strip the drinker of his or hers magic powers." She stated angrily.

"Indeed it would. But since none of my students posses the kind of powers a binding potion would strip them of, I don't see a problem."

She felt very tempted to yell at him and tell him that she had those kinds of powers, but knew better than to do it.

She sat down again.

"Sorry Neville." She muttered, grabbed her stuff and stormed out of the classroom.

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"I'm telling you Phoebes, he's one of the bad guys!" she yelled frustrated.

"Paige, don't jump to conclusions. We don't"

"The teachers know about my powers! Why would he suggest a binding potion if he didn't. He wanted me to be stripped of my powers!"

"Okay, okay, you have a point. But I'm still stuck trying to figure out how he found the formula to make a binding potion. I think you should have stayed in class, we would have had more information." Phoebe said calmly.

"And I wouldn't have my powers!"

"Okay okay, point taken. I still think we need to have an open mind. Maybe we should talk to Dumbledore?"

"Fine, what other option do we have?"

Entering Dumbledore's office was far easier this time, knowing the password.

And they found they we're not alone.

"You!" Paige yelled once they saw Snape in one of the chairs.

"Ahh, yes, Severus was just informing me about what happened during Potions. I had a feeling you would be joining us. Please sit down."

They did what he said.

"So, Ms. Halliwell," both of them looked at him. "...Paige, why don't you tell me what happened."

"The dude tried to take my powers!"

"I most certainly did not."

"You had us make a binding potion, and you wanted us to test it! Result: Me with no powers, which would also result in there being no Charmed Ones."

"Why, Ms.Halliwell, do you think I partnered you up with Longbottom? I was expecting him to mess up the potion and there fore there would be no effect."

"Yeah, but what if he hadn't messed up?!" Phoebe said angrily.

"Excuse me?" Snape said confused.

"What if Neville hadn't ruined the potion? Do you honestly have that little faith in your students? What if he had managed to make this potion perfect? The consequences would have been terrible!" Phoebe snapped at him.

"Go Phoebe!" Paige said enthusiastically and the two sisters did a little high-five.

Dumbledore laughed at the scene before him.

Snape fuming and the two sisters smiling broadly.

"Well, it seems they have you there Severus. You cannot deny that they are correct."

"May I ask, how you obtained the formula for a binding spell Professor?" Phoebe asked politely.

"No." He said simply and left the office.

"Well, that was......."ยจ

"Intresting?" Paige suggested.

"Sort of."

"Hmm, I'm still convinced he wanted to take my powers." Paige muttered.

"Oh, I highly doubt that Paige. Severus has my full trust. He never meant harm." Dumbledore said.

"Well, I'm going to see my friends. Phoebes don't you have classes?" She asked.

"SHIT! I forgot!"

AN: Hope you liked this chapter.

I'm quite pleased with it, even if I pressed a lot of stuff together.

Important Message! Thanks a million to Paige Malfoy who came with the idea of using the Book of Shadows to help Harry out in the story. Thank you so much!!!!

sirius-black-4eva : Thanks

NikkiEvans : I know, Pansy's a bitch.

LazyLacy : I know, it's totally genius! It's my favoritte cross-over. And Cole's coming back, I promise! I know, Phoebe's not the teaching type, but I needed her to be at Hogwarts.

charmedsisters : Thanks