Morning brought the rain, and with the rain came the many many goodbyes. After a breakfast of deviled eggs and toast, the guests left in a sad trickle of hugs and tears, and promises of visits and letters. First the Addams half of the family, since many of them had to return to their hotels and change out of their formal clothes, which they had been wearing all night long, followed by the British guests, who had to catch various planes and busses and deal with their travel plans.

Many friends, new and old, tearfully congratulated Harry and Severus with hugs and kisses and promises for more than just visits and letters; the British guests planned to go back and tell everyone of the wonderful kindness and friendship of Severus Snape and his family, and hopefully might restore Severus's reputation to what it was before the death of Albus Dumbledore. Many of Harry's friends promised to send them both gifts and things from Britain that were hard to find in America, such as British wizarding candy and books, broom catalogues, chocolate frogs, anything under the sun. The Twins had promised the prototypes of some of their more interesting new products, to use on their unruly female students. This had caused Harry to panic at what the Twins might be concocting, and caused Severus to raise an eyebrow in stern admonition, which the Twins of course ignored.

Mister Weasley promised that he'd convince the American Minister of Magic to ease restrictions on flying cars as transportations so that Harry and Severus could fly their Hearse to Britain, or that Hermione and Ron could come visit in their Stationwagon, and Molly had promised to send them sweaters to deal with the cold Salem winters.

"Really, that's not necessary," Harry said as she tearfully hugged him and congratulated him. "Really," and he looked at Severus briefly; his fiance had a very dismayed look on his face at the idea that he was now going to be receiving Weasley sweaters for Christmas.

Saying goodbye to Ron and Hermione was the hardest part. Hugging Hermione, still annoyed to still be pregnant and anxious to get it all over with, Harry promised to come visit as soon as the baby was born.

"I'll come, you know it," he said, moaning with a longing to just go with her and Ron back to England, back to the place where he had grown up and lived most of his life. "I wouldn't want to miss it!"

"You'll be his Godfather, or hers," Hermione said whilst crying. "Oh Harry, I have to...I have to say it. I just have to! What you did was so beautiful! I've read all about the Moon Stone ritual you know. Its so sad and beautiful! You're so brave and and..."

And she started crying and hugging him again. Ron had whispered to Harry that Hermione was going through mood swings. Harry hadn't bothered to enlighten Ron as to the truth.

Harry was then shocked beyond measure by the Dursleys. Petunia kissed him goodbye, promised letters, then went out with Vernon to their car with something that was almost a smile on her face. Dudley shook Harry's hand firmly.

"Congratulations," said he. "You have a good family here Harry, I'm almost envious. You know I'll be coming back here in the summer. Since, well, Pugsley is...a squee...squee...what do you call it?"

"A squib..." Severus put in thickly. "Barely just..."

"Yeah, a squib. Since he's like, not going to magical school, his parents thought maybe he could have a live in tutor for the summer and asked me to come back."

Harry was highly surprised, and out right gaped. That Dudley was going to tutor Pugsley, despite his own mediocre education, was one thing. But that he actually wanted to come back to visit the Addams family was too much.

"Is this...a trick?" said Harry, once Dudley was out of ear shot. "Did I miss something? Since when did Dudley suddenly become...well...less normal?"

"Since last night," said Severus, with a smirk at Harry's very Addams-like use of the word 'normal'. "I think I saw your cousin dancing with a certain cute little pink haired relative of mine."

"The girl with the elf ears?" Harry said, smiling widely. "No wonder Winifred went home last night. She must have been royally pissed."

She had actually tried to leave without telling anybody, which is a serious no-no. They had only known she was leaving when her screeching had suddenly filled the house. The Polar Bear, ever the vigilant protector of the house, had snapped at her heals when she had tried to sneak out the front door without saying goodbye. She had caustically insulted the Addams for not having the thing muzzled upon her previous requests and had stomped right out into the pouring rain. Lurch had been more than happy to close the door behind her.

"Yeah, but...Dudley teach? I mean, what is he going to teach Pugsley?"

"Sports mostly," said Morticia softly, coming over to them with a soft gliding step. "I don't like the local high school the normals go to, because he would have take all those extra classes to be enrolled in the sports teams there. Pugsley just adores soccer...what you call football in Britain, and your cousin offered to coach him over the summer. Better than him having to study and do exams and book work for subjects he's not interested in."

Harry smiled keenly and laughed. The Addams were purely sensible about these sorts of things, irregardless of muggle standards in education.

"I think that sounds like a plan. Dudley, though not good at the maths or spelling, is one of the top rated boxing and football champions of his league. Sounds like he's exactly what Pugsley needs."

The last person to say goodbye to Severus and Harry was Remus Lupin and Tonks. Remus looked like he could outshine the sun with the beaming grin on his face, and Tonks was so happy that she and her son could now spend Full Moons with his daddy. The relief on her bright face was apparent for anyone to see.

"I have so much to thank you for and no idea where to start," said Remus anxiously. "I swear, as soon as Bill figures out all the spells you'll have the ring back again."

"No need," said Harry, waving his hand. "We have our stones now to symbolize our marriage. Keep it. Pass it down the generations. It'll be a famous family heirloom one day, the ring that helped bring an end to lycanthropy."

Remus beamed and hugged Harry, then shook hands with Severus, who looked strangely passive at this gesture.

"Forgive me?" said Remus. "For not seeing your pain all those years ago?"

"I think it is I who needs to be forgiven, for not sympathizing with yours," said Severus seriously. "Perhaps next summer you can come down for another visit and we can have a good talk about it. And you could always drop by Salem. I'm...not sure I am ready for it right now."

"Of course. Its not a wound you can heal in one day."

But on that day, under the full light of a sparkling rainy morning, with all the Addams family in attendance, the two old enemies hugged and laughed together as if they were friends.

"Well, that about does it," said Harry, putting the last suit case into the hearse. "Car's all packed."

The Addams family was all assembled on the lawn, ready for their final goodbyes. Morticia was the first to say goodbye. She didn't cry like Molly or Hermione, but the sorrow was in her pale beauteous face all the same.

"Oh my lovelies," said Morticia, reaching out to hug Harry and Severus. "I wish you didn't have to leave. But parting is such sweet sorrow."

She kissed them both, then went over to Wednesday, hugging her tightly.

"You will write to me?" she said to her only daughter, who nodded vigorously. "And if those Salem girls are mean to you, you don't mess around with telling a teacher, you hex them good."

"I promise," said Wednesday, causing Harry and Severus to moan and look at one another.

"Pubert," said Morticia. "Come say goodbye to your sister now. You'll not be seeing her for awhile."

Pubert immediately left his father's side to run over to Wednesday. He had grown since the first day Harry and Severus had arrived on the Addamses doorstep; his bat wings now had a fine layer of hairs on them now, and his shaving lessons had been going quite well. He was almost able to do shave on his own.

"Bye bye Bert," said Wednesday. "And don't you be sad, or get sick, I'll be back in the winter for the holiday. Okay?"

The toddler nodded, sadly as ever, then made a face when she kissed the top of his head.

"Wenay," said the boy suddenly, causing them all to jerk.

"Oh, he said another word," said Morticia. "How delightful. Yes, Wednesday isn't going to be gone for long. She's going to school."

Pubert smiled then and ran over to his mother to be picked up by her. Harry and Severus both kissed him goodbye, (with more scrunchy faces from the toddler), and then it was Gomez's turn to say goodbye.

"Well then old man," said Gomez, as he approached Severus. "You're finally married, ready to settle down, start teaching, and be hounded by the hundreds of young girls under your tutelage. Congratulations."

"Thank you Gomez," Severus said, grinning just as widely as his cousin. "You write to me and let me know how Pubert's potty training goes."

Harry chuckled pointedly as the two men shared a good laugh at each other's expense, then shook hands with Gomez firmly.

"Thanks for everything," Harry said.

"No, thank you," said Gomez. "I'm very proud to have you in my family. Couldn't be prouder of the both of you."

Harry nodded, then had to avert his eyes sadly as Gomez was hugged tearfully and tightly by Wednesday. It was not a pretty sight when Wednesday cried and her crying actually had a quite magical effect on men, something that they hadn't realized until she had cried at their wedding reception when Draco Malfoy had turned down her multiple requests for dances.

She could literally break hearts with her tears, and almost had with Malfoy. Fortunately his marriage to Ginny was just to strong to break under the onslaught of magical misery and Gomez had stepped in to prevent further disaster.

"You have grown so well, and beautiful," said Gomez to her now. "You'll do well there. I know you'll write to me."

"Every day Father," the girl said sniffling. "I'll tell you every single thing!"

Fester was up next. He hunched his head down into his shoulders and hugged Severus, who laughed.

"I can't believe you finally did it," said Fester, grinning ear to ear.

"I can't believe you proposed to Dementia at my wedding reception," said Severus, rolling his eyes up. "So corny."

"Well, I was inspired," said the man, and they shook hands firmly.

Harry didn't know what to say to Fester, but the man beat him to the punch.

"Next summer, minefield dodge ball playoffs. We work out the rules and make it an official Addams sport with all the cousins. What do you say?"

Harry grinned, and barely had to think about it.

"All right, but let me know if you're planning any strange explosive concoctions to add to the mines, so I can try them out first!"

They both laughed, and then Fester went on to hug his niece tightly, and slip her a tiny stick of dynamite to put into her purse.

"For the road," he whispered to her.

Pugsley shuffled over to Severus and Harry for hugs, and Pugsley shrugged awkwardly.

"You know, if you hadn't been married, I wouldn't have known I was a squib," he shrugged. "I kind of glad I figured it out, before I got stuck on some magic carpet one day and found it couldn't carry me."

"Don't worry," said Harry. "There's still plenty to do in life, even without magic. And I'll take you up on my broom with me any time. Summer isn't that far away you know. You'll be studying soccer with...one of the very best atheletes I know."

Severus practically choked at this but Pugsley grinned wickedly, then went over to his sister.

"You're not really a squib you know," she said with a huff. "I've electrocuted you lots of times and you were fine."

"But I can't cast spells like you can," said Pugsley sadly.

"So I can use you to practice on during the summers," she suggested, an idea that he surprisingly liked.

"All right. You'll write to me too right?"

"Yup sure," said Wednesday, then bent down to his ear to whisper, just out of their parents hearing range, "And I'll find you a girlfriend at Salem."

Pugsley's eyes went wide as saucers and he nodded. Harry had to struggle not to laugh.

Finally Lurch and Thing shook their hands. Thing patted Harry on the head, and then tweaked Wednesday's nose before going back to join the others. Lurch held the car door open for the both of them to get inside.

"Bye everyone!"

"Have fun at Salem! Write to us!"

"We will! Bye!"

"Goodbye Mother! Goodbye Father!"

"Bye Wednesday darling!"

"See you at the winter break!"

They all shared anxious, sad and somehow joyous parting waves from the window of the car, then Severus hit the ignition. As the hearse pulled out of the drive, down through the snarling gates out to the main road, carrying them away from the house, and The Addams family at last, their hearts and their futures seemed to be going with them, like tiny drops of water trickling over the sparkling surface of the smooth stones fused to their hearts.

"Cousin Severus, can you teach me how to drive?" said Wednesday, once they were out of site of the house.

Harry and Severus shared a look, and Severus smirked.

"All right then, put on Harry's invisibility cloak and get into my lap. And if the invisibility booster on this thing is working like Weasley promised, we can even test this thing's ability to fly."

Wednesday squealed with delight, Harry moaned, looking up to the heavens, then shuffled about in his side of the car as Wednesday climbed over the front seat to climb into her cousin's lap.

This is going to be one kooky year, thought Harry. Thank goodness for that!

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