Melinda Halliwell

Melinda Halliwell is the youngest child, and only daughter of Piper Halliwell and Leo Wyatt. She is a witch as well as Whitelighter hybrid and the baby sister of Wyatt and Chris Halliwell.

Her powers include the powers of Telekinetic Orbing, Remote Orbing and Hovering. Additionally, Melinda posses the basic powers of a witch; the ability to cast spells, brew potions, and scry for lost objects or people. Furthermore, if the need was great enough she and her brothers may one day be able to access The Power of Three, the collective power of the Charmed Ones.

Melinda is named after her ancestor Melinda Warren.

Pre-Birth and Birth
When Piper Halliwell was pregnant with her first child Wyatt, she and the whole family initially assumed that she would have a baby girl because three years prior to this, Piper and her sisters went into the future where she met her young daughter named Melinda. It wasn't until Piper actually gave birth that they all discovered that her first child was a boy.

Piper and Leo conceived this third and final child a month following the Charmed Ones' last Ultimate Battle, resulting in Melinda's birth sometime in 2007.

Coming Into Her Powers
"How did those potion bottles get up there?"

- Piper when she sees the knocked over potion bottles above her soup. Melinda came into her powers about a year after her birth. Her mother was cooking in the kitchen with when she "conjured" a couple of potion bottles above her mother's soup, causing the soup to create vines that attacked her as well as her mother. Melinda enjoyed the spectacle, but Piper after she trying to cut the vines she had to call in the help of her two sons Wyatt and Chris to help her fix everything.

Becoming Twice-Blessed
"The Elders hoped to alter the prophecy of the Twice-Blessed. That the firstborn children of the family would inherit the Power of Three. Making Wyatt, Chris, and Melinda an even more powerful force for good than the Charmed Ones."

- Kyle to Leo and Paige.

Being that Leo was mortal when Melinda was conceived, everyone was shocked to discover that she miraculously had the power of telekinetic orbing. Leo goes to The Heavens with Paige to question The Elders. There, they are approached by newly appointed Elder, Kyle Brody, who informs them that that since Leo was a Whitelighter for so long, his magical abilities became ingrained within his DNA despite his being mortal, passing those genes onto Melinda. The Elders decided to interfere and caused these whitelighter powers to manifest in Melinda so as to alter the prophecy of the Twice-Blessed Child.

They wanted to make Chris and Melinda twice blessed like Wyatt, which would allow the three first born Halliwell children to inherit a more potent Power of Three so that in the future they would be a greater force of good than the Charmed Ones. However, the Angels of Destiny realized the errors of tampering with people's lives after understanding that that was the entire reason why Neena, the first witch, decided to bring about the apocalypse. As a result of this, the Angels of Destiny absolved Wyatt, Chris, and Melinda's statuses as twice blessed, making Melinda a normal Witch/Whitelighter hybrid. Melinda still retains her power of telekinetic orbing because once a witch receives an active power it becomes an attachment such as an arm or a leg and wouldn't be right to just remove. (According to Paul Ruditis).

The Altered 2009
"Don't worry, mommy. I promise I'll do what you ask. I won't use my magic again, ever."

- Melinda making a promise to her mother.

When the Charmed Ones traveled to 2009 to visit their future selves, Piper discovered that she had a little girl, Melinda. Although she is the youngest child of Piper and Leo, in this future she was the oldest and only child of the couple.

In the wake of Nathaniel Pratt's witch hunt taking over this future, her parents had forbidden Melinda from using her powers, in order to protect her.

In this future, her name was Melinda Wyatt, taking her father's surname. Because Leo still a Whitelighter in this future, Melinda was probably a half Whitelighter as well.

The Dark Future
No evidence of Melinda's existence during the alternate dark future that Future Chris came from was ever given. However, Chris' testimony that their father was never there for him makes it likely for Melinda never to have been born, since the reason why Leo was never there for Chris was because his work as an Elder took him away from his family too much.

Powers and Abilities

 * Basic Powers
 * Spell Casting: The ability to cast spells and perform rituals.
 * Potion making: The ability to brew potions.
 * Scrying: The ability to scry for a person or object by the use of a scrying crystal and a map.
 * Active Powers
 * Telekinetic Orbing: The ability to move objects by will like Telekinesis, but instead transports the object from one location to the other with orbs.
 * Remote Orbing: The ability to orb other people from one place to another.
 * Hovering: The ability to rise a few feet in the air, and float in one place on a swirl of orbs.
 * Other Powers
 * High Resistance: This power causes her to be resistant to powers such as Fire balls and other lethal powers.

Trivia

 * In the novel Leo Rising, There was a dark-haired girl with the boys that Leo didn’t recognize. Something about the way she moved reminded him of Piper, but he didn’t get to witness her actions for long, however, It is possible that she might inherit Piper's molecular abilities, since Piper wasn't much of a fighter and most of the time all she did in battle was flick her wrist to freeze or combust the evil.
 * If you look at the pictures of Melinda activating her powers, you can see her resemblence to Piper, when using her powers.