Chapter 3: Muggles?
"What Harry's trying to say is…no muggles are able to get in…let alone see the Leaky Cauldron," said a raggedy looking man walking up behind the three teenagers.
"And who are you?" Piper asked.
"Me? My name is Remus Lupin," the man said.
"Remus? Well, Remus, what the hell are you talking about…Muggles?" Piper asked.
Phoebe and Paige just staying quite letting Piper handle the man seeing as how they both were just staring at each other.
"You know…non-magic folk…seeing as how you and your…"Lupin said stopping to glance at Phoebe and Paige for a second.
"Sisters" Piper filled in.
"Yes you and your sisters were able to see this and just walk in I just assume…you are magical," Lupin said.
"Great, we left San Francisco to get away from this" Piper mumbled barely audible.
"Umm…is everyone here…magic?" Piper asked stumbling on the word magic.
"Well yes they are…but first I would like to ask…what are you three?" Lupin asked.
Everyone was just standing back watching the scene unfold.
"We…we're the" Piper stuttered looking at Phoebe and Paige wondering what to say.
"What are you first?" Phoebe asked.
"Us? We're wizards…but Hermione is a witch… you know…Wizards and witches" Lupin said.
"Wizards?" Piper asked with raised eyebrows not really believing him.
"What are you?" he asked again.
"If you really are wizards show me some magic…then maybe I'll tell you who we are" Piper said glaring.
"Fine" the man said taking out a stick from his pocket.
"You've got to be kidding me," Piper laughed.
"No…no I'm not" Lupin said seriously he waved it around and said some sort of weird word.
The candle on their table lifted into mid-air the three sisters moved away from it a little.
"What the hell" Paige said as the candle fell back to the table and the man put his so called wand back into his pocket.
"There now tell me…who are you" Lupin said getting impatient.
"We're witches…the Charmed Ones to be exact" Piper said then Hermione gasped.
"The Charmed Ones?" she asked.
"Yes" Phoebe said.
"Boy's don't you remember?" she asked the two boys on either side of her which they shook their heads.
"In History class…oh for goodness sakes if you paid more attention then you would know who they are" Hermione said.
"Hermione no one pays attention in that class besides you" the red head said.
"Honestly Ronald …The Charmed Ones…the most powerful witches of all time…live in America?" Hermione said trying to trigger Ron's memory.
"Wow…we're part of history? I was hoping I wouldn't be in it until I was at least…history" Paige joked.
"If you don't mind me asking…if your witches…who live in America…why are you here?" said the boy who they assumed was Harry.
"Well…what we're doing here in this very spot right now…Piper didn't bring a bigger coat so we're just warming up then we're going to find a store to buy her one" Phoebe said.
"Piper? What a very…different name…beautiful" Lupin said looking into Pipers eyes.
"Yes…well it's my name…I didn't really choose it" Piper said awkwardly looking away.
"What are your names?" Hermione asked.
"My name is Phoebe I'm the middle sister, this is Paige she's the youngest and Piper is the oldest" Phoebe said.
"Wow all your names start with a P" Harry said.
"Yeah kind of runs in the family" Paige said.
"What do you do when you run out of P names?" Lupin asked trying to catch Piper's eyes again but she just kept looking at the kids.
"Well…this tradition only started with our Grams" Phoebe said.
"So…I guess we should be going now" Piper said wanting to leave.
"How long you guys here for?" Ron asked suddenly not shy anymore.
"3 weeks" Paige said which earned a elbowing from Piper.
"Great…can you come back tomorrow?" Lupin asked.
"Yeah we can show you around Diagon Ally" Harry said.
"Diagon Ally…? We'll think about it…talk about it…but we'll probably see you tomorrow" Phoebe was saying as Piper tried to push her and Paige out before she said anything like that.
She slammed the door shut second before the goodbyes of Phoebe and Paige were heard.
"I can not believe you guys said we would go back" Piper said angrily.
"Well we couldn't just say no Piper…and plus…we all saw the way that Remus guy was looking at you" Phoebe teased.
"Exactly…I don't want to see him again," Piper said as they headed back to their hotel.
" Liar…you like him don't you" Paige said joining in on the teasing.
"No I do not…he is at least 10 years older then me" Piper said.
"Nope…he's only like 37 or something…all I know is that he doesn't look 39" Phoebe smiled.
"Well still…we came here to get away from magic not explore a different kind," Piper said.