Melinda Halliwell

Melinda Halliwell is the only daughter and youngest child of Piper Halliwell and Leo Wyatt. Originally just a witch, she was made into a Whitelighter-Witch by the Elders and is the younger sister of Wyatt and Chris Halliwell.

Her powers include the powers of Telekinetic Orbing and Hovering. Additionally, Melinda possesses 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 powerful ancestor Melinda Warren who began the Charmed legacy.

Pre-birth and Birth
In 1999, when Piper and her sisters visited the future, in the year 2009, she meets her and Leo's only child, a daughter, named Melinda. In 2002, when Piper became pregnant, the family assumed that the child would be a girl as was the rest of the Halliwell clan and Piper prepared to name her Prudence Melinda, in honor of her late older sister, Prue, and her ancestor, Melinda Warren. However, the child turned out to be a boy.

Piper found out she was pregnant with their third and final child in early 2007 following the Charned Ones'last Ultimate Battle. Resulting in her birth sometime in late 2007.

Coming into Her Powers
Melinda came into her powers about a year after her birth. Her mother was cooking in the kitchen whilst holding Melinda when the baby "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 unsuccessfully trying to cut the vines, had to call in the help of her two sons Wyatt and Chris to help her.

Becoming Twice-Blessed
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 Whitelighter-Witch. 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.

The Altered 2009
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, Melinda was the only child of the couple. Piper showed Prue a picture of Melinda in a pink and purple ballet costume, suggesting she liked to dance and/or took lessons.

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 was still a Whitelighter in this future, Melinda was probably part 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 took him away from his family too much.

Powers and Abilities
As well as being able to cast spells, make potions, scry for lost objects and people, Melinda also has the abilities of:

Active Powers

 * Orbing: The ability to teleport with the use of orbs.
 * Telekinetic Orbing: The ability to move and teleport objects, with the mind, through use of orbs.

White lighter Powers

 * Hovering: The ability to rise a few feet in the air, and float in one place on a swirl of orbs.

Magic School
Following in the footsteps of her father, Melinda became a teacher at Magic School right after attending normal High School.

She teaches one of the kindergarten classes.

David Collins
Melinda thinks of David as her true love.

Working together
Since they both teach at Magic School they have often had jobs that collided. When a troll or a giant or another creature has slipped out they've often helped each other fix these problems.