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  • Cyril and Celia's chauffeur being sympathetic towards them when their mother doesn't arrive for them and giving the latter her shoes she forgot back home.
  • Megsie comforting Celia by giving her some of her own best clothes to wear for everyday and Celia giving her cousin the shoes she rejected when seeing how Megsie liked them.
  • The cousins quickly learned to work together to collect the missing piglets. They learned so quickly, Nanny McPhee has to enchant the pigs to make the task a bit harder.
  • The family enjoys a picnic with some of the extra money they earned from selling the piglets and ginger beer (ginger ale to those in the US). Mr. and Mrs. Docherty even join them in the fun.
  • Cyril joins his cousin Norman in seeking out Cyril's father to see if Norman's father is truly dead, and later passionately defends his aunt's marriage to her lower class husband to his father Lord Gray.
  • We see that the children Nanny McPhee raised not only remember her, but pretty much squee when they see her again. A stoic guard in London breaks down in Tears of Joy at the sight of her and admits that he can't lie when she asks him if he still eats his vegetables, and we find out that Baby Aggie from the first movie, even all grown up and forgetful, is happy to give Nanny McPhee a place to stay.
  • As Nanny McPhee leaves, the children's dad returns. Especially heartwarming, considering that she only leaves when they do not need her anymore, and they truly don't: Their family is back together again.
    • Not to mention, the father hugs his niece and nephew and is just as happy to see them as his own children. Compare this to their own father, whose idea of a heartwarming reconciliation is a firm handshake, and it's incredibly sweet.
    Rory: I had three children when I left, now I have five.
    • There’s also the scene with Mrs. Docherty who is Aggie Brown all grown up. She’s the only one who gets to say goodbye to Nanny McPhee and one of the few people who knows how kind she is. She also reveals that she still has her mother’s rattle, meaning that she remembers the last act of kindness her former nanny did for her.
  • Vincent and the Elephant sharing a bed.
    Vincent: Would you like a pillow, Little Elly? You're a bit big for this bed but I don't mind.
  • Even if Cyril and Celia don't get on with their cousins, they do behave well towards Isabel, always calling her aunt and speaking to her politely. Celia even says that she hopes Isabel sleeps well on her way up to bed.
  • When Lord Gray asks Norman why he should give his father any special treatment in checking out his whereabouts, Norman stays silent but Cyril defends him telling his father that's because his aunt and cousins love and need him. And after hearing how much his children went through due his upcoming divorce. Lord Gray agrees to find information on Rory and in an apologetic tone tells Norman his father is missing in action.
  • Norman offering Cyril (alongside Celia) to live with them at their farm after learning of their parents's divorce.

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