Piper Halliwell

"You're the heart of this family, Piper."

- Patty talking to Piper.

Piper Halliwell was born on June 7th, 1973 to Patty Halliwell and Victor Bennett. She was originally the middle sister of the Charmed Ones, later becoming the eldest sister after her elder sister Prue died. She is the most kind, caring, and maternal of the four sisters but can also be very sarcastic and quick-witted, a trait likely acquired from years of looking up to Prue. She was also the voice of reason between Prue and Phoebe, the most devastated upon Prue's death, and the first magical mentor of Paige Matthews upon discovering the latter's place in her family. She is married to her former whitelighter, Leo Wyatt and is the mother of three children, Wyatt, Chris, and Melinda Halliwell. Her mother describes her as "the heart" of the Halliwell family. Piper is viewed as the main character of Charmed and is considered to be the most powerful of the Charmed Ones.

Childhood and Growing Up


On March 24, 1975, she was visited by a future version of herself. It was also on that day that Patty made a pact with the warlock Nicholas to make him a ring that made him immune to her daughters' powers. After Piper's little sister, Phoebe, was born in November 1975, Penny, her grandmother, bound their powers to keep Nicholas from killing them and taking their powers. Prue noted that, as a teenager, Piper didn't know quite where she fit in, like Jan Brady (Coyote Piper). In the same episode, a former high school classmate recalled that Piper liked to sit in the back of class and draw on her jeans.

In the early part of the Charmed history, Piper is the middle sister of the three. She begins as meek, shy and very much the arbiter between her sisters Phoebe and Prue. Though Prue was the eldest, Piper was much more maternal.

Trained as an accountant and a chef, she worked as a bank teller after her college graduation, but was persuaded by Grams to resign. Six months after Grams died in 1997, Piper worked as a private caterer and as a chef at a trendy bar/restaurant in downtown San Francisco called "Quake". She seems to be widely considered one of the better chefs in San Francisco and she later opened the popular club P3.

Along the course of the series, Piper grows from the meek middle sister, to a confident, charge-taking, quite comedically cynical woman.

Season 1
Piper is the middle sister. While Prue acts as the fearless lead witch and Phoebe is the eccentric and reckless spell-caster, Piper takes up the reins as the moral compass and voice of reason for the Charmed Ones.

Initially, she was terrified of her powers' significance because she didn't know where they come from, but Phoebe manages to encourage her to believe the fact that she can choose to be good. Despite her wishes to be normal, she learns to face the fact that magic is a part of who she is; someone who can help other people like she always had, and begins to think of her powers as both a burden and a gift.

On the day, she discovers her powers, she also lands a job as a chef at a restaurant named Quake, by unintentionally freezing the head chef on an interview and using the opportunity to add the missing ingredient. She is hired as a chef, but becomes a manager soonafter Chef Moore left Quake. Her boyfriend, Jeremy Burns, reveals the fact that he is a warlock who is after her and her sisters' powers, but had to wait for the moment they receive them because Phoebe was absent for six months.

Piper and Phoebe become attracted to their handyman, Leo Wyatt, who is really their whitelighter. They decide to fight for his heart but agree to not let anger control them if one of them gets Leo. Piper eventually is the winner, and Phoebe encourages her to ask him out on a date. Soonafter they spent a night together, Leo tells her that he has to leave town because of his job. A while later, he returns and accidentally exposes his identity to Phoebe. Despite having come back, he has to leave again soon and tries to device a break-up explanation to Piper without hurting her feelings or telling her his true identity. Piper takes this very well and is not long before she starts dating a college professor named Josh.

Though she finds him attractive and likeable, she realizes that her heart is still with Leo and encourages him to move to Berkeley for a new job. Two weeks after the break-up, Leo appears in the attic of the Halliwell Manor in front of Piper, poisoned and injured by a darklighter arrow. She is initially very angry with him, but drops her anger when the arrow begins to kill him. She cast a spell to switch powers with Leo in attempt to heal him. By admitting her true feelings for him, she finally succeeds. Leo offers to become human again to build a family with her, but Piper declines because the world needs him more than she does. Additionally, she has also developed romantic feelings for a ghost named Mark Chao.

Late one night, on the way to Quake to meet her sisters, Piper gets a flat tire and is attacked by a monstrous creature known as a Wendigo. The Wendigo scratched her arm and it becomes infected transforming her into a Wendigo as well. She and her sisters discover that the Wendigo who attacked her was posing as an inspector with the FBI, named Agent Fallon. After they melt the inspectors heart of ice, Piper reverts back to her normal state. Piper is the first Charmed One to transform into another magical creature.

24 years ago, the warlock Nicholas made a deal with the sisters' mother, Patty, to bless his ring with immunity from the Charmed Ones' powers in exchange for fetus Phoebe's life. This prompted their Grams to bind their powers after Phoebe was born to protect them from Nicholas. 24 years later, he discovers their powers' return and attempts to kill them and steal their powers. Phoebe manages to locate a spell that sent them back in time to the day their mom made the pact with Nicholas. Though they fail to prevent this from happening, they manage to undo the ring's magic with their mother and grandmother and use the early Power of Three to send them back to their present where they vanquish Nicholas. To the sisters personally, this is a heartfelt opportunity to meet their mother again.

At the end of season 1, a time-manipulating sorcerer teams up with the demon Rodriguez to kill the Charmed Ones. Every failure prompts Tempus to rewind time to help Rodriguez learn his mistakes. Phoebe, however, manages to retain her memories and convince her sisters that the day is repeating itself. The third time they face Rodriguez, Prue's ex-boyfriend Andy helps them fight him off and gets killed. By accelerating time, they banish Tempus back to the Underworld, and easily vanquish Rodriguez. Piper also decides to quit her job at Quake to pursue her own dreams.

Season 2
At the beginning of season 2, Piper buys a club and names it P3, with assistance from Prue and Phoebe. With Dishwalla's performance, P3 quickly becomes one of the most popular night clubs in San Francisco and is able to hire famous performers, such as the Cranberries and the Goo Goo Dolls.

In this season, Piper and Leo's relationship goes through a spiral of changes, quest and abnormality. Because his job constantly drags him out of town, Piper becomes attracted to next door neighbor Dan Gordon. It doesn't take long before they start dating, and Leo runs in on them while informing them about an evil witch, Tuatha, being freed. After the witch is vanquished, Leo realizes that Piper craves a normal relationship, something that he cannot give her and they officially break up. Though she finds some normality in the relationship, magic is always around to interrupt her life.

In Awakened, Piper receives a bite from a rare bug that infested some kiwano from South America and becomes infected with oroyo fever. As her situation worsens, Prue and Phoebe use an Awakening Spell to save her. Though the spell works, it begins to spread the disease throughout the hospital, infecting numerous people in the form of a ninja puppet. The specialist staff is forced to encage Piper and her sisters to run some tests. Upon discovering the side effect, she asks them to reverse the spell despite the risk of her dying. After the magic is reversed, Piper immediately collapses. As she hovers between life and death, Leo appears and heals her. Subsequently, he temporarily becomes a mortal by the Elders for "butting in". Leo declares that now that he is mortal again, he will begin to fight for her. This leads to an odd triangle situation for Piper as she is still in a relationship with Dan, but has her thoughts of Leo in tact all the time.

With a guidance spell from Phoebe, Piper discovers that her love for Leo is stronger than her love for Dan. She eventually tells her feelings to Leo, who becomes a whitelighter again when Prue is in danger. Despite this, Piper is willing to stick to her decision. The week after, she breaks up with Dan, and though hurting, they end on friendly terms.

A few months later, Dan moves to Portland for a new job in order to move on with his life, with Piper's wish to boost the desire.

Season 3
Piper and Leo's relationship takes a serious turn when the Elders order them to break up. They attempt to get married during a solar eclipse, but Leo gets taken away before they can vow and forbid them from seeing each other ever again. By saving an innocent little girl, she manages to persuade them to re-consider this and give the couple a time of probation: if they do not let their love life affect her duties as a Charmed One and his job as a whitelighter, then they can get married. After a long term of probation, the Elders finally agree to the engagement.

Two weeks before the wedding, Prue is unconsciously wedded herself by a warlock named Zile in order to turn her evil and subsequently, Piper and Phoebe and their Book of Shadows are all turned as well. In this state, Piper becomes cunning, vicious and receives a new freezing power. When Leo tries to stop her, she freezes him and Phoebe shatters him to pieces. By vanquishing Zile, the bond is broken and they return to themselves, and magically undo all evil deeds they have done, including Leo's death.

The pair are wedded in front of a gathering of family and friends at the Halliwell Manor (it should be noted it took three attempts throughout season three for the couple to wed, proving the third time is the ‘‘charm’’). With her marriage came new threats, new powers, and new losses. Near the end of season 3, Piper's powers grow to the point that she is able to speed up molecules and create explosions. She initially had trouble with it as she was unable to divide her powers between freezing and blowing, and hid herself in the basement, and later her own bedroom for safety until Leo convinced her to try to come out and deal with her powers' threat.

During the season finale, the sisters' powers are exposed on national television and subsequently Piper dies due to a gunshot wound by a crazed witch practitioner named Alice Hicks. Phoebe makes an agreement to the Source in order to save Piper and Prue by reversing time. Time reverses to the moment before they expose their powers, but unfortunately this leads to the death of Prue instead.

Season 4


The unexpected and devastating loss of Prue hit Piper and Phoebe hard. It proved more than anything that despite being the most powerful witches ever prophesied they are not invincible. Just weeks after Prue’s death Piper and Phoebe find out that, surprisingly, the Charmed Ones can be reconstituted. The discovery of a long-lost half-sister, Paige Matthews, gives rise to a possibility of recreating the Charmed Ones. With the addition of the youngest Halliwell, Piper finds herself taking on the mantle as the eldest sister and as the most powerful of the new Charmed Ones in terms of active power, potion-brewing ability, and having to develop the ability to strategize, since her big sister Prue had been the leader and the plan-maker in earlier years.

Piper had difficulty accepting Paige as a sister and friend. Slowly, however, the friendship and sisterly bonds formed, allowing the Charmed Ones to grow in power and become strong enough to vanquish the Source of All Evil in three separate incarnations during the show's fourth year. All the while, Piper struggles to deal with her grief and even gets turned into a Fury, after an attack. Phoebe realizes that the only way to turn Piper back is for her resolve her emotional crisis and so Leo orbs her and Paige to the cemetery where Prue is buried. Paige encourages her to let Prue know how she feels and finally Piper snaps, screaming and hitting Prue's plague, berating her for dying and leaving Phoebe and her. By letting out her feelings, Piper turns back to normal. This is similar to Phoebe's emotional crisis over Cole which got her turned into a Banshee.

Knowing that someone has to take responsibility for the family followed by Prue's death, Piper decides to take the role and asks Paige to move in with them.

Upon fulfilling their destiny of vanquishing the Source shortly after this, Piper and her sisters are offered the opportunity to give up their magical lives in exchange for actual normal ones – no magic, no warlocks, no demons, and even no Elders. After little discussion Piper and Phoebe out vote Paige and decide that they want a normal life. However, just before they give up their powers, they discover there is a witch hunter on the loose. They eventually vanquish him and save an innocent and as a direct result, turn down the Angel of Destiny's offer after they realize how much they like helping people. Before the Angel of Destiny leaves, he tells Piper that neither decision would've affected her personal destiny with Leo, which leads Phoebe to discovering that Piper is pregnant, something that she and Leo have wanted for since the beginning of season 4.

Season 5
After battling many more demons and some mythical creatures, as well as dealing with the growing powers of her unborn child - who caused Piper and Leo to swap bodies and powers - Piper is diagnosed with toxemia, during her third trimester. Fortunately her baby, Wyatt Matthew Halliwell is delivered safely by Paige and Phoebe in a home birth (to which Piper is opposed right up to the moment her water broke) at the manor. All were surprised to discover that the baby is a boy, and not Melinda, who Piper had seen in a visit to the future. Wyatt, however, is a prophesized, twice-blessed child with tremendous magical powers and the apparent heir to King Arthur’s sword Excalibur; he is hunted by demons from as soon as he is born. Like any nervous new mother Piper was afraid to leave her baby when she and Phoebe had to find out who placed a bounty on him. She proved her strength as a witch to be reckoned with by vanquishing many demons and sending out a message that any demon who wished to harm her child will be promptly vanquished. Afterwards she names him after his father' and Aunt Paige's last names.

Months after the birth of Wyatt, the Charmed Ones meet Chris, a Whitelighter from the future who comes back to help them defeat the ancient Titans – ancient gods imprisoned by witches-turned-Gods by the Elders. In a repeat of history, Piper, Phoebe and Paige are transformed into the Goddesses of Earth, Love, and War, respectively. As a goddess, Piper had the ability to control all nature, teleport, throw lightening bolts, and sense her sisters. She was the most powerful of the Goddesses, ultimately being the one who destroys the Titans- she opened a chasm to the center of the earth via geokinesis and the Titans fell into it with the help of a lighting bolt from Paige's trident. While her sisters relinquished their holds on their powers, Piper's rage at discovering Leo's ascent to Elder caused her to hold onto it, and she channeled her anger and grief into a hurricane-like storm over San Francisco. She later confronted Leo in the heavens about abandoning their family, but eventually comes to understand that Leo's actions reaped the ultimate reward, and that his ascension wasn't something she could fight especially given that most Elders were killed by the return of the Titans and Leo was needed to help restore order.

Season 6
Chris becomes the girls’ new Whitelighter and Piper attempts to live a life as a single mother. Piper and Leo separated and she begins to pursue relationships with mortal suitors, most notably a fireman named Greg who she dated for some time. Chris later reveals he came from the future ultimately to protect Wyatt from a dangerous evil force that will not reveal itself for a full year, a mission complicated by Leo's intense mistrust of him.

Leo and Piper are set on the path to reconciliation when a demon uses the power of a genie to wish the Charmed Ones dead. Leo's connection to Piper saved the sisters as even though he and Piper are in a magically-induced sleep, Leo hears Piper's cries for help when her spirit begins to move to the afterlife and he heals her. A few weeks later when Piper and Leo become stranded in the ghostly plane with Leo shot by a Darklighter's arrow and no one around to heal him, their defenses finally come down. When Leo tells Piper that he still loves her, they ended up spending the night together. After being freed Leo finally realizes that he needs to take his place as an Elder and fully commit to that life, abandoning the life he was living with his family. He leaves his family to live their lives in the mortal world while he lives out his in the heavens. When Piper learns she is again pregnant, she feels that she can't tell Leo about their new son because he finally has accepted his new destiny.

During her pregnancy the truth comes out that the sisters’ latest Whitelighter, Chris, is in fact Piper and Leo’s second child whom she is carrying. Phoebe was the first to discover this and Leo was the last. Together, the entire family works even harder to aid Chris in finding out what great evil turned Wyatt into an evil tyrant in Chris’ future. Piper had decided to go to Magic School, a safe place for young witches to develop their powers, while she was pregnant since unborn Chris does not have a protective force field, as unborn Wyatt did. While at the school demons can't attack her or young Wyatt while she carries out her pregnancy and tries to help identify the threat after her first-born. Leo discovers the truth about Chris, and joins in the hunt for the evil that corrupts Wyatt. This journey draws Piper and Leo closer together. Piper is also pulled out of hiding by an evil Paige and is nearly killed by demonic assassins, but is saved by Phoebe. Together they vanquish the assasins and Piper vanquishes the main threat herself with her molecular combustion power. Afterwards, she is somewhat annoyed at her sisters as their keeping her in the dark about the situation nearly led to her death.

Piper goes into labor while the world functions under a spell that makes everybody happy, unable to take anything seriously. Wyatt and Leo are unaffected by it, but Paige and Phoebe are, as is the doctor caring for Piper during labor, which she is having severe complications with. It is revealed that Gideon, an Elder, is working with Barbas to corrupt Wyatt--actually, to remove him, as he is too powerful, though this plan is doomed to fail-- a plan Chris interrupts and is killed for. Leo ends up killing Gideon after Chris dies in front of him and Paige, who later relays the news to Phoebe. The spell is broken with Gideon's death, and the doctors manage to successfully deliver Chris.

Season 7
However, during this ordeal, Barbas convinced Leo that a fellow Elder was after his family, and he killed him, therefore becoming a rogue Elder. Some months later Piper cannot understand how Leo can make such a tremendous comeback from his grief of killing an innocent Elder, but she is willing to accept Leo back into her life once again, despite the fact that he tells her that he was an Avatar. With his Avatar kind, Leo and the sisters create a world of peace but it has deadly consequences. But after the world of the Avatars fails, Leo has to deal with the Elders' punishment and he is once again taken away from his family to endure a trial. He has to determine if his destiny lays with his family or the other Elders. In the 150th episode, Piper receives help in the form of Phoebe's past love, Cole. He helps her and Leo get back together for good (which also makes Leo mortal) and restores Phoebe's faith in love by proving that their (Piper and Leo's) love conquered all. Soon a new threat comes on the horizon, Zankou, a powerful demon imprisoned by the Source hundred of years ago who seeks to bring order to the Underworld and to destroy Piper and her sisters.

After months of fierce battles and even losing possession of the manor and the Book of Shadows, Piper and her sisters destroy Zankou and the Nexus at the end of their seventh year as witches (Paige's fourth year). Piper and the sisters seemingly die in the final battle with Zankou. The mortal world, the underworld and the Elders believe Piper and her sisters to be dead, while this is the sisters' chance to finally get a normal life.

Season 8
Piper transforms her face and takes on the alias of Jenny Bennett, only her loved ones being able to see her as she was. However, Piper's new look matches someone else who was wrongly wanted for murder. After clearing her lookalike's name Piper has to change her look and get a new name, Jamie Bennett. While in disguise, Piper and her sisters take on a protege, Billie Jenkins. While Billie helps with their demonic load, eventually Piper and her sisters realize that hiding their true selves is a mistake. After a plot that involves the Department of Homeland Security to explain her sudden return from the grave, Piper returned to her real name and old life.

Despite having been through hell and back in their relationship, Leo does not adapt to being a mortal married to one of the most powerful witches in magical history well. Even going to a magical marriage counselor doesn't turn out as well as they had hoped. Their counselor has them switch bodies in order to walk a mile in each others shoes and hopefully mend some broken bridges. It works, and for a while, things are good in Piper's life.

Naturally this is when the Angel of Death comes to Piper to warn her that Leo's time is coming. While Piper figures out a way to prevent Leo's death, it involved having Leo frozen. An Angel of Destiny tells Piper and her sisters that they have another battle to fight, one which they may not survive from, and Leo's death would have motivated them, and specifically Piper, to fight it. Piper reasons that losing Leo with his return hanging on her success is a much greater motivator than just losing him. The bargain struck, the Angel of Destiny vanishes, taking the frozen Leo with her. Simultaneously, Billie is searching for her demonically-abducted sister, Christy Jenkins.

Piper starts to film everything that goes on in the house so when Leo comes back, he can watch what he missed. She also avoids demon fighting, but when she and her sisters discover that Billie and her recently-found sister are the ones they have to fight, she is the most determined to take the battle on. As the magical community is turned against the Halliwells by the Jenkins sisters, Piper escapes with her sisters to the Underworld. Teaming up with two demons and utilizing the power of the Hollow, the sisters vanquished the spirit-form remains of the Triad and turned against the Jenkins sisters, also possessed by the Hollow. The battle ends with the survival of Piper and Billie and the deaths of Paige, Phoebe and Christy.

Leo is returned to her, and he stops her from murdering Billie with her bare hands, taking her to Phoebe's apartment, where Coop, materializes and is stunned to find that Phoebe is dead. Piper, however, is determined to get her sisters back, reasoning that they've conquered death before. She borrows Coop's ring, and through time travel summoned her mother and Grams, and prevent the deaths of Phoebe, Paige and Christy, but with Christy alive, Leo is removed once more. The sisters and Billie travel back in time again and vanquish the Triad once and for all. Piper personally vanquishes the Triad's minion Dumain with her molecular combustion power. Dumain is the last demon vanquished on the series by any character. Realizing Christy had manipulated her, Billie deflects her fireball aimed at the sisters, killing Christy. Leo is returned, and the family present - the sisters, Grams, Patty, Wyatt, Chris, Leo and Coop rejoice in their final victory.

Season 9 - The Charmed Comics
Piper was in the Manor cooking and holding Melinda, when suddenly some potions fell into the cooking pot. Vines start attacing Piper, she tried to freeze them but it didn't work. She grabs a knife cutting them but is overwhelemed. Wyatt and Chris come to the kitchen with Piper telling them she nneds a little help. Later she is sitting on the couch eating pizza when Phoebecomes in and asks her what happened to the food. Piper sead the meal had another opinion. Paige comes with the Book of Shadows and Piper tells both of them that Melinda came to her power.

At the Manor Piper and Phoebe are getting ready for Brittany's funeral. At Brittany's funeral Piper sais that she feelp they lost another part of Prue since Brittany was the first innocent they ever save. Phoebe want to know how Brittany died so she touches her coffin and has a premonition of Brittany being very old. Piper freezes the guest and opens the coffin and sees Phoebe was right. She sais that her death wasn't from natural causes. Back at the Manor Phoebe has a vision of all the innocent they saved in danger.

Later Life
With the destruction of all the strong demons of the past, the sisters can finally have normal lives (they still help innocents, but things are much calmer than the girls' early years). Piper and Leo's marriage returns to peace and they soon have a third child, Melinda. Piper also opens a restaurant. By the year 2050, Piper and Leo have nine grandchildren, the eldest being Matthew at age fourteen; the youngest grandchild, aged four. The story ends with an elderly Piper reading the events of the past from the Book of Shadows to her granddaughter, Prudence. After Piper leaves with Leo to rest, more children enter the manor and we get to know them as more of Piper's grandchildren. Prudence closes the door with her telekinetic powers, ending the story of Piper Halliwell and the Charmed Ones.

Powers & Abilities
Unlike her sisters, Piper has always been the most reluctant to embracing her destiny as a Charmed One. She constantly craves for normality in her life, without magic and danger enveloping her family, and does her best to avoid magical circumstances at all costs.

This has become a significant weakness, as demons and warlocks over the years have exploited on the fact that Piper wants to just be normal in order to attempt to steal her powers or end her life.

Molecular Immobilization
Piper inherited the power of molecular immobilization from her mother. This primarily gives her the ability to 'freeze' objects and beings in motion by slowing down their molecular movement rate to such a point where they appear not to move. Her power is initially triggered by panic and Piper had to make hand gestures to cause things to freeze or unfreeze. If Piper's hands were tied, she'd be powerless. Piper at first could only freeze everything in her immediate location (within the room she was in) and the freeze would only last for very short periods of time. She later learned to freeze and unfreeze on command, and selectively choose parts of objects to freeze or unfreeze. She could also freeze and unfreeze certain objects and subjects (like every innocent in the room). This power would keep growing stronger so that Piper can freeze for longer, and in a larger range of area around her. Piper used her freezing ability a total of 85 times during Charmed, the most being in season two with 24 times, and the least being in season seven with only 3 times.

Her power had been mistakenly named temporal stasis in the first three seasons until she learned in Exit Strategy that her powers work on a molecular level (slowing down molecules to the point that they freeze).

Her freezing powers were initially useless against ghosts, evil spirits, poltergeists and phantasms, and against demons with immunity to her powers and witches. Over the years, Piper became stronger and was able to cause a powerful Triad member to freeze almost fully. In Hulkus Pocus, Piper managed to freeze the witch Billie Jenkins, however, Billie was weakened by a virus so Piper could freeze her easily.

In No Rest for the Wicca we see that this power has developed in a similar way to how it did in Morality Bites, allowing her to freeze everthing in the area, even raindrops.

Molecular Combustion
Three years after she regained her powers, she developed the more offensive power of blowing things up; Molecular Combustion. This power works by speeding up the molecules of the desired object to the point where they separate with an explosive action. It uses a similar hand motion as she does for freezing and thus, she was hesitant to use either power initially, not knowing whether her targets will freeze in place or explode into bits. As with freezing, Piper learned to master this power and can attack with precision. The trigger for this power, as seen when she first acquired the ability in 2001 is anger or rage - similar to how anger was the trigger for Prue's power of Telekinesis. This power has become so powerful that Piper was even able to blow up a member of The Triad with 3 blows.. This power is only used by Piper in the show and is one of the rarest and most powerful abilities, which made her the strongest Charmed One after she became the eldest in Season 4. Piper used her combustive ability a total of 129 times during Charmed, the most it being used in season six with 33 times, and the least in season eight with only 8 times.

Using this ability, Piper is also the last one to vanquish a demon directly on the series: Piper uses it to blow up and vanquish both past and present Dumain in the series finale, Forever Charmed.

This power is believed to be the most powerful of the Charmed One's powers, it would have been second most powerful if Prue survived and advanced to what was seen exhibited by Prue in Morality Bites.

Future Powers

 * Possibly in the future, Piper might gain the powers of Molecular Inhibition. With these power she is able to freeze someone's or something's molecules to the degree that they appear to be frozen in ice. She might also have Molecular Manipulation since her powers are based on a molecular level.

Control


Both powers are reliant on both her hands (to do the blasting/freezing motion) and her eyes (because she needs to see what she is actually freezing/blowing up), and quite a few powerful creatures (good and evil) are resistant or immune to her powers (For example, when she attempted to use her power on Cole Turner/Belthazor, all that she managed to do was send him flying back a few feet rather than actually destroying him). However, her first demon vanquish with this new power, Tarkin, was an extremly powerful upper-level demon with most likely a power level similar or near to Belthazor and previously could only be vanquished by a potion made from his blood or that of his comrades, so when Piper blasted Cole, she may not have been aiming to kill him.

Although Piper usually has to use hand gestures to activate her power, in the episode Once in a Blue Moon, Piper's anger at Paige caused her molecular combustion power to blow off the ceiling chandelier without her even aiming or looking at it. Since her powers are based off of emotions, it is believed that Piper's combustion powers came around when she started getting more aggressive and confident. In season 4, Piper shows that she can deviate an attack when projectiles are thrown at her. For example, a ghost from Leo's past throws a knife at her which she freezes just in front of her. She then unfreezes it and instead of the knife resuming its trajectory it instead falls to the floor, as if the initial force acting upon it was nullified and the knife lost its inerita.

In another versatile use of her power, Piper found that she was able to explode incoming projectiles, such as fire and energy balls. In one case, as Piper and Paige were chanting, the demon Imara hurled a fireball at them and she blew it up. The resulting explosion was enough to push back the attacking demon. Piper later developed the ability to actually deflect fireballs and energy balls back at her foes by blowing up the air in front of them. In one notable instace, Piper, disguised as Wyatt, blasted an energy ball aimed at her, blowing up part of it and sending the rest into another demon, vanquishing him.

Piper couldn't blow up every demon, but demons that didn't blow up would occasionally be lunged backwards by her power. In season 8, her power grew and she was able to blow up a Triad member with three explosions to the chest. However, he was weakened, because one of the members had just been killed with one of their own fireballs. Before that happened, Piper believed that the Triad would be completly immune to her molecular combustion power although she did manage to freeze two Triad members for a short time beforehand. Piper was able to speed up molecules so fast that she could create fire. In Kill Billie Vol. 2, she created flames on wood when trying to kill Billie with her power. In the episode Size Matters, Piper manages to generate heat energy at the end of Gammill's wand via molecular combustion.

Also, when attacking a demon, an exploding flame action would occur instead of the demon or object just exploding. Piper seems to be immune to her own power. For example, in the season seven finale, Zankou had her powers and hit her with it, only leaving a scar. Piper also seems to be able to blow up something and not have it affect her. A door for example, would explode, but none of the wood particles would touch Piper. This may be subconscious defense mechanism that one of her powers is responsible for i.e. the shards fly in all direction but deviate away from her. Another ability she has shown is if she's quick enough, is the ability to interrupt demons teleporting away. She used this ability to prevent a Possesor Demon named Rothul from shimmering away, although she didn't vanquish him and let Billie do it. In Forever Charmed, after she blows up Present Dumain, Past Dumain tries to shimmer away, but Piper catches him in mid-shimmer and blows him up, vanquishing him.

Cryokinesis or Earth manipulation
In the 4th Charmed Comic issue, Mortal Enemies, it was shown that Piper has gotten a new power. Wich is probaly Cyrokinesis or Earth manipulation.

Basic Wiccan Abilities
Like the other Charmed Ones and witches, Piper can brew magical potions, recite/write powerful spells and scry for people or objects. And although she is not as good at inventing her own spells as Phoebe, she can use other spells for inspiration to create her own spells. Though she never practiced this skill, she can curse people and objects.

Of the four sisters, Piper is the best one at making potions, as predicted by Grams in 1997 before she died from a heart attack, because Piper is a natural-born and professionally-trained chef. In the first season, she hardly participated any potion-making activities and Phoebe brewed potions occasionally, but eventually involved herself more in the later seasons and became the best potion brewer. By season 4, she can brew potions with various effects, such as poisoning, stripping/binding powers or vanquishing upper-level demons. This earned her the alias "potion master". When Paige first became a witch, Piper was responsible in teaching her the ropes, starting out with potion basics.

Piper, Prue and Phoebe were sent back in time in the episode All Halliwell's Eve to save their family line from an evil witch named Ruth Cobb who had kidnapped a witch named Charlotte Warren and was planning to raise her child, Melinda Warren, evil. Later on, Piper realised that since they were in the past, their powers didn't exist yet. However, a local witch from the past named Eva taught the Charmed Ones the the power of nature. Using this knowledge Piper learnt how to use magical herbs for protection against evil and how to create a large protective circle. When she was returned back to her own time she brought back this knowledge with her.

In the season seven finale, she and Phoebe and Paige learn the ability to astral project; something that Prue had taught Leo. This allowed them to distract Zankou long enough for them to retrieve the Book of Shadows which he had stolen from them. Additionally, she used a spell to change her physical appearance.

Wendigo
When Piper was attacked by a supernatural creature later discovered to be a wendigo in The Wendigo, she got her arm slashed and later transformed into one during the full moon. As a wendigo Piper displayed super strength (and possibly heightened senses), but could still use her ability to freeze when Prue and Phoebe shot a flare gun at her. After the Charmed Ones vanquished the wendigo who turned out to be agent Ashley Fallon that attacked Piper, these powers were removed.



Whitelighter Powers
Piper became a whitelighter in season 1's episode Love Hurts, when Leo was shot by a darklighter. The Darklighter poison was the only thing that could kill a whitelighter and the poison would kill Leo if they didn't heal him. Piper cast a spell that would switch her powers with Leo's making her a Whitelighter and him a witch. Unfortunately, it switched Prue's and Phoebe's powers to the point where Prue got premonitions and Phoebe could use telekinesis. Piper was unable to heal Leo until she learned how to control his healing power, and triggering the power through the emotion of love. Piper was later able to use sensing to locate Leo's charge as he was too weak to use his powers himself if they were switched back.

She became a whitelighter once again in season 5, episode 4, after fetus-Wyatt (still in the womb) swapped her and Leo's powers to make them understand each other's positions better. During this time, Piper learned to use the powers of orbing, omnigualism, healing and sensing charges, which gave her a real headache because of the constant cries for help from Leo's charges. While possessing Leo's powers, Piper displayed considerable control over orbing and seemed to experience very little trouble when she used healing, possibly due to her previous use of that power. Piper proved to be a natural at orbing, picking it up after just one orb with Paige and showing no problems with it unlike Paige who struggled for months to master it after recieving the power. In contrast Leo, who focused on mastering molecular combustion alone, had a lot of trouble. With Leo's help, Piper was able to get enough control over sensing through meditation to finally locate Phoebe and was able to orb both of them there where Leo (after three tries) managed to vanquish the Siren with molecular combustion. Due to Phoebe's near death state, Piper was forced to use healing on her to save her life, but unlike her previous attempt with Leo, was able to do it with only a slight hesitation after Leo told her to.



Telepathy
Prue and Piper cast a spell 'To Hear Secret Thoughts' after they both believe that their boyfriends, Jack and Dan, are warlocks; especially after Piper notices that Kit starts hissing at Dan and Prue believes that Jack can blink because she saw him in two places at once. The girls find out that they are both normal since they could make them bleed, and then realize Kit was growling to a hornets' hive and Dan has a twin brother. After vanquishing the Collectors, Piper and Prue reversed the spell.



Super Speed
In the episode Awakened, Prue and Phoebe cast a spell to save Piper from her deadly infection. Once awakened, the sisters realize the spell backfired giving them a lot of energy so they can't fall asleep, and also makes Piper move at super-speed while cleaning the bar without noticing it. These side effects are cancelled when Prue and Phoebe reversed the "Awakening Spell". In Season 8, Piper gained the ability of super speed while under the curse of Grams' ring.



Alchemist
Piper was possessed by a demonic life essence named Terra, who was running from her creator and boyfriend. While she was possessed, she gained powers to revive the dead and to shoot offensive energy beams ("Coyote Piper").



Warlock
When Piper became a warlock in Bride and Gloom, she displayed the powers of molecular inhibition, blinking and Transformation. Her power of ice stasis, made it so she could literally freeze people to the temperature of absolute zero because the people she froze were brittle, and could be shattered by a kick or a metal object. These powers disappeared when she turned good again.



Fury
When Piper was still grieving over Prue's death, she ran into three female demons known as "furies". One of them sensed her unexpressed anger and blew smoke into her body which later turned her into a fury. As a fury, she gained the power of super-strength and smoking. Those powers were removed after she expressed her anger at Prue's grave. ("Hell Hath No Fury")



Superheroine
A young witch named Kevin turned her and her sisters into superheroes using his power of Thought Projection to increase their chance to fight against the demon Arnon. In this form, she was able to use super-strength and super-speed. In addition, she gained invulnerability, which protected her from bullets. She returned to her normal form after Arnon ripped apart the drawing that turned her into a superhero. ("Witches In Tights")



When Pregnant With Wyatt
Piper was able to access a number of special powers when she was pregnant with Wyatt. First, she gained the power of healing, which came useful when she was injured in battle. ("Happily Ever After") Her explosive powers were turned to creating fireworks and flowers when her baby altered her body, but she regained control after she got in touch with her "inner whitelighter". ("Siren's Song") She gained the power to produce force fields around her womb when she was several months pregnant. This power made her indestructible until after Wyatt was born, thus removing all of her additional powers. ("Sam I Am")



Greek Goddess of Earth
When the Greek Titans were freed from their imprisonment, Leo broke the Elders' rule and turned Piper and her sisters into Greek Goddesses in hopes to strengthen their chance to fight them again. Piper was turned into the Goddess of Earth, Gaia and thus, gained control over nature and all of its natural elements. she has also performed a protective shield with Phoebe and Paige, and created a projectile blow against Chris in anger. These powers were stripped away after she vanquished the Titans. ("Oh My Goddess, Part 1 & Oh My Goddess, Part 2")



Valkyrie
Piper turned into a Valkyrie while she had amnesia. In this form, she gained aggressive telekinesis, agility and powerful martial arts skills. Despite these aditional powers, she still at least retained her witch powers, which she used instintively once. She returned to her normal form after she removed the pendant that turned her into a valkyrie. ("Valhalley Of The Dolls, Part 1 & Valhalley Of The Dolls, Part 2")



Shakti, the Hindu Goddess of Creation
Piper was possessed by Shakti, the Hindu Goddess of Creation, when she attended her friend's wedding. She gained four extra arms and had the power to throw lightning. In addition she retained her Wiccan powers as well as was demonstrated in the demonic attack on her and baby Chris. She lost Shakti's powers after Paige cast a spell to remove them. ("A Call to Arms")



Angel of Death
Piper was turned into an Angel of Death after the original one needed a hand to transfer souls to their afterlife in the exact order. ("Styx Feet Under"). Piper displayed the abilities of Dark Wisping, Conjuration and the ability to help souls move on. These powers were later taken away after Piper restored the natural balance to the Grand Design.



The Virus
When the magical community was threatened with a deadly virus, she and her sisters infected themselves with it to enhance their powers in hopes to find a cure. In this form, her power of molecular combustion was enhanced and she had super-strength to her advantage. After the cure was made, she returned to her normal form. ("Hulkus Pocus")



The Hollow
In the final battle against Christy and Billie, she, Phoebe and Paige summoned the Hollow after receiving word from Nomed and Zohar that Bille and Christy were going to summon it. Because the Hollow is known for absorbing people's magical powers, she and her sisters absorbed the ability to throw energy balls when Zohar made a kamikaze attack on them. They also gained the power of electrokinesis. They lost these powers after the Hollow was released from them. ("Kill Billie Vol. 2")

Romantic Life


Piper has fallen in love with a ghost (Mark Chao), a banker, a professor assistant (Josh), a construction worker (Dan Gordon), a fireman (Greg), a warlock (Jeremy Burns) and her Whitelighter and husband Leo Wyatt.

Jeremy Burns
Pre-Witched flashbacks to Something Wicca This Way Comes

Piper met Jeremy, a warlock posing as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle around the time Grams passed away from a heart attack, they subsequently became engaged after dating for six months, culminating in him buying Piper a bottle of port to help with her job interview at Quake. When she came into her powers, Jeremy took her into his apartment, where he revealed his true self, and then tried to stab her. He was subsequently impaled by rose thorns in the Charmed One's first potion and became the first evil vanquished using the The Power of Three Spell. He was bought back to life by Abraxas in Witch Trial, and attacked Piper's banker "boyfriend" Rob, causing her loan application for what would become P3 was denied.

Mark Chao
During Dead Man Dating

A young Chinese-American college student killed and incinerated in a gang robbery. Mark's ghost form appealed to the sisters to save his soul, which was not given a proper burial, from the soul collector Yama. He befriended Piper, who was still reeling from Jeremy's vanquish, and had a fling with each other before moving on.

Jack Manford
During Dream Sorcerer

Jack was a regular customer at Quake restaurant. Piper and Phoebe casted a love spell which caused Jack to notice Piper. Surprised, Piper tries to turn him off her by talking about her supposed tattoos and piercings, which encourages him further. After the love spell got out of hand, it was reversed and Jack had no recollection of the event.

Josh
From Is There a Woogy in the House? to Out of Sight

After Leo departs (upon Phoebe's discovery about Leo's powers) she meets an arts graduate student named Josh and subsequently fight over a bottle of wine. Piper for her meal she was preparing for Prue's boss and her two guests, one of whom turned out to be Josh who, after succeeding in buying the bottle, bought it to the house as a gift. Despite not letting go of Leo, a cautious Piper begins to date him. After three dates, combined with Piper's love for Leo and Josh receiving a job offer in Beverly Hills. Piper encourages him to take the job, thus ending the relationship.

Rob
During Witch Trial

In a move unusual of her character, Piper tries to sleep with a banker Rob in order to obtain a loan so she could buy the property that would later become P3. Despite having reservations, he was about to approve the application when the resurrected ex-boyfriend Jeremy returns to try and kill Piper. Rob got attacked in the process and subsequently declines the application, leaving Prue and Phoebe to mortgage the house so Piper could live her intermediate dream.

Dan Gordon
From She's a Man, Baby, a Man! to Give Me a Sign

While Piper and Leo were separated for some time because their relationship could not work out due to their conflicting magical destinies. Piper sought out a normal relationship with a mortal, her next door neighbor and former baseball player Dan Gordon. Although it started out well, the relationship began to fritter away when she blurts out Leo's name after he saved her from dying of Oroya Fever. During their entire relationship, Dan remained oblivious to the fact that Piper was a witch, despite encountering many close shaves.

He eventually learnt the truth in Be Careful What You Witch For. When he proved unable to handle the secret, Piper, with the help of a genie, had the information removed from Dan, but not before causing him to age uncontrollably. Eventually the pair ended their relationship. He was unusually friendly with Leo upon his return, until Piper and Leo got back together, which culminated in an explosive fight scene in Ex Libris. Piper went on to reunite with Leo before Dan moved away to further pursue his career.

In a past life, as Priscilla Baxter (cousin of Prue's past life Phoebe Bowen and Phoebe's past life Pearl Russell), Piper had had to choose between Leo and Dan before, and eventually married Dan's past life Gordon Johnson (and eventually bore Penny Halliwell). Thus, she is more or less her own great-grandmother and that of Prue, Phoebe, and Paige.

Brad and Ryan
During Soul Survivor

While Piper and Leo split up in Season 6, Piper tried dating other men. Both Brad and Ryan were quite taken with Piper, but were immediately scared away by Wyatt using his powers behind Piper's back. This lead Piper to believe that her dates don't like children until he tries it on Richard Montana, a male witch who Wyatt believed Piper was dating.

Greg
From Chris-Crossed to I Dream Of Phoebe and The Last Temptation of Christy.

Once the issue with Wyatt was sorted out, Greg the firefighter came along. His relationship with Piper was the longest relationship after her marriage. While the couple made out in I Dream of Phoebe, the relationship ended after Chris fooled Greg into believing Piper and Leo were still together by showing them "sleeping" together (due to his wish being granted by Phoebe). In 2006, while Leo was still encased in ice, Piper and Greg literally collide with each other. Noticing Leo was absent, Greg tries to rebond with Piper, who turned him down as she was still holding onto hope of Leo returning.

David Right
During Prince Charmed

After an epiphany caused Piper to swear off men. Paige and Phoebe decided to create the perfect man for her on her birthday - with a few of their personal preferences as well (including a big penis). An initially unhappy Piper comes round to adore him but after Chris manipulates David for his own gain (to try and convince the sisters to bind Wyatt's powers), all the sisters swoon over him, resulting in a food fight. Before vanishing at the stroke of midnight, David tells Piper not to give up on love.

Leo Wyatt
From The Truth Is Out There... and It Hurts to Secrets and Guys; Love Hurts to The Devil's Music; Give Me a Sign to Oh My Goddess! Part 2; The Courtship of Wyatt's Father onwards.

Piper's longest (and permanent) relationship was with Leo Wyatt, a WWII medic who died during the war and was subsequently posing as a handyman while he was actually their whitelighter. He was supposed to hide his secret from the sisters, but had to leave when Phoebe came across him levitating to change light bulbs.

He returned in Love Hurts to cloak one of his other charges Daisy when he was injured by a darklighter. A grief-stricken Piper traded powers with him to save his life but it didn't work until Piper managed to discover the the trigger. In Morality Bites, it was revealed that future Piper and Leo were married and divorced with a child Melinda. Due to conflicting magical destinies. The couple broke up in early season 2.

When Leo was stripped of his powers in Awakened, he promised Piper that he would fight for her love. This caused Piper to become confused about her love life, which was finally clarified for her in Give Me a Sign. Once Leo regained his powers, he decided to take Piper for a tour of the heavens for an "hour."

However, Piper and Leo still had to deal with the consequences of their forbidden romance after getting back together. When the Elders issued an ultimatum about Piper and Leo's relationship, Leo proposed to Piper, who, after some hesitation, accepted. They tried to marry in secret, but the Elders were told of their plans after Cole exposed them to the magical community and they took Leo away. When the Elders forbade Piper from ever seeing Leo again, Piper decided to go on strike from being a witch. But once she realized that she still had a job to do and she still had to save innocents despite her anger over Leo, the Elders sent him back, giving them a chance to prove that their relationship would not interfere with the lives of innocents.

Leo and Piper were finally married by the ghost of her grandmother Penny in a special ceremony. The sisters' father Victor, Phoebe's half-demon boyfriend Cole Turner and Inspector Darryl Morris attended the wedding, and the Elders sent Patty back to Earth for the day to attend the wedding as a gift.

Though obstacles came in their way, such as when Leo becomes an Elder in late Season 5 and was forced to leave Piper and their newborn son, Wyatt Halliwell, among many other things.

Leo returned in Season 6 after going missing, though he and Piper do not reconcile their relationship because of his status as an Elder. In mid-Season 6, while trapped in the Astral Plane, Leo and Piper make love and inadvertently conceive a second child, Chris Halliwell, though Piper doesn't tell Leo that she's pregnant and allows him to return to The Heavens and remain there permanently as an Elder, until her sisters summon him and tell him everything during an incident with a Spider Demon, and his son, Chris.

Leo eventually kills his mentor, Gideon and returns to Piper, them attempting to reconcile their marriage, although his guilt of killing Gideon, the Elders' distrust of him, and the "coming storm" of the Avatars put many obstacles in their way.

Piper is wary of Leo when he begins seeing things and especially when he joins the ranks of the Avatars, though begins agreeing with the thought of Utopia. After the she and her sisters reverse Utopia, Leo is put under a test by the Elders. He is stripped of his memory and powers and put in a situation where he must return to the fight for the greater good or Piper. He eventually chooses Piper, and "falls from grace," giving up his powers and becoming human. Piper and Leo can finally be together again, although Leo is eventually taken away in the mid-Season 8, so Piper and the sisters can prepare for their upcoming final Ultimate Battle. At the end of the series, Leo is finally brought back by the Angel of Destiny after the battle ended, and they are free to live their normal lives at last.

Their marriage produced three children; Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, Christopher Perry Halliwell, and Melinda Halliwell.

Professional Life



 * Quake- Something Wicca This Way Comes - Deja Vu All Over Again
 * P3- Witch Trial - Forever Charmed (Opened in The Devil's Music)
 * Un-Named Restaurant- Post Forever Charmed

Piper originally worked as an accountant for a small bank in San Francisco before quitting her job to pursue her dream of being a professional chef. A few months later, Piper landed a job as a new chef under the tutelage of Chef Moore at a high quality restaurant Quake. Only a week or two pass before Piper’s boss leaves Quake and she is promptly promoted to restaurant manager, a job that has her constantly working double shifts and unhappy.

After quitting Quake, Piper opened P3, a nightclub named as a tribute to the Power of Three and Prue, Piper, and Phoebe. P3 is made popular by the appearance of Dishwalla, a hit band whose manager is in league with Masselin, a demon who feeds off of souls he keeps trapped inside of him. P3 was temporarily renamed to "The Spot" briefly after Prue's death, though it became P3 again when Piper accepted Paige as her sister. P3 is open for at least 7 years, though in the series finale we learn that Piper finally became a chef in her own restaurant, like she'd always dreamed.

Appearance
Of the Charmed Ones, Piper's appearance changed the least frequently and the least drastically (compared to Phoebe). However, even these trivial changes reflect how her character has changed. She starts out in the series with dark brown hair of a moderate length (with bangs). Her fashion sense at that time was conservative. By season 2, her hair has grown and is now a slightly lighter shade. It keeps growing until by the middle of the season, it resembles her classic look that she retained for the rest of the series. Her clothes have become more feminine. She also starts wearing hair gloves from time to time ("Apocalypse, Not", "A Knight to Remember" in Season 4). It continues to grow in seasons 3 and 4. In season 5, Piper's hair has light brown highlights around the time she gave birth to Wyatt. By season 6, these highlights wear off and she now has long bangs. She lets her hair grow until season 7. In season 8, her hair has more noticeable highlights and often a loose curl. When she and her sisters assume new identities, becomes Jenny Bennett, a blonde. After she and her sisters help Maya, she chooses an identity, Jamie Bennett, who is closer to the original Piper in terms of appearance. In her elderly state seen in the final episode, the wrinkles on her face and her hair turning gray are virtually the only differences.

Deaths count
During the run of the series and her life as a Charmed One, Piper died 9 times.

Power Loss Counts
Throughout the series and her life as a Charmed One, Piper had lost her powers 16 times.

Piper's magical transformations
Throughout the course of the series, Piper has been...

Etymology
Piper is a name that came from a surname given to those who played the flute pipe. Halliwell derives from any of the several places named with the Old English pre 7th Century elements "halig" meaning "holy", plus "well(a)", a well or spring. These places include Halliwell in Lancashire, recorded as Haliwell circa 1200; Holwell in Dorset and Oxfordshire appearing respectively as Halegewelle and Haliwelle in the Domesday Book of 1086; Halwell and Halwill in Devonshire, recorded as Halgewilla in 1086, and Holywell in Northumberland, Kent, Cambridgeshire and Cornwall.

Memorable Quotes

 * From the novel Mist and Stone


 * Piper shook her head.
 * "No, except for putting the Piper whammy on various inanimate objects around the house, everything's fine. That's the problem. Nothing awful is happening, and my nerves are shot."
 * "The scary part is that I understood the logic behind that." Leo pulled out a chair and sat down.


 * From Season 4 Episode: Hell Hath No Fury

Piper: "You stole our sacred book so you could perform magical plastic surgery on yourself?!"


 * From Season 5 Episode: Oh My Goddess part 2

Piper: "You asked me to marry you, and I said yes. You wanted a family, and I gave you a son. And now you want me to just watch you walk away?"

Leo: "It's not that simple."

Piper: "Then make it simple because I am trying really hard to understand."


 * From Season 8 Episode: Desperate Housewitches

Piper: "Hey cupcake!" (trying to blow up the possesor demon)


 * From Season 8 Episode: Vaya Con Leos

Piper: "I have to lose you to save you."

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