P. Bowen

P. Bowen (June 1895 - May 1971) was a good witch of the Warren line with the power of cryokinesis. Daughter of Gregory Bowen and Lola Mack, she was a photographer.

During the "roaring twenties", she lived with her two cousins P. Russell, P. Baxter, and Baxter's husband Gordon Johnson in the family Manor. Baxter had turned it into a speakeasy during the prohibition, and Bowen worked there as a photographer.

In early 1924, her cousin P. Russell had fallen in love with a warlock Anton, and was turned evil. To prevent them from stealing their happening, Bowen had Baxter search for a spell to curse her.

On February 17, 1924 she and her cousin P. Baxter had the spell on hand in a compact nearby, waiting for Russell to make her move. Once Anton gave Russell a locket to protect herself from Bowen and Baxter's powers, and a potion to triple her strength, she attacked them. Bowen froze several fire blasts before they were able to get a tassel around Russell's neck and read the spell, killing Russell and preventing any of her future lives from joining forces with Anton.

76 years later to the day in 2000, Phoebe Halliwell started feeling the effects of the curse, and had to travel back to visit her past life: P. Russell. While there, she found that P. Bowen looked almost exactly like her sister Prue. P. Bowen turned out to be one of Prue's past lives. Leo later explained that this was because her soul 'recognized' her, and she appeared to her to look that way.


 * As P. Bowen didn't look exactly like Prue, this means the picture right is merely a representation of her and doesn't portray her actual likeness.

P. Bowen died in May of 1971 according to the family tree, never having married (or at least it wasn't added.) The family kept her camera in the attic even after her death. ("Pardon My Past")


 * Her name was most likely Phoebe Bowen, as "That '70s Episode" shows that Patty named Phoebe after her "favorite aunt", and P. Bowen is the only Aunt that was alive for most of Patty's life. It's possible her name was Pearl, though this would leave "Aunt Phoebe" unexplained. Another possibility is that Aunt Phoebe was on Patty's father Allen's side, though the P. tradition is usually associated with the Warren line.