Heartwarming / Sabrina: The Animated Series

• The ending of "This is Your Nine Lives" with Salem thanking Sabrina for the picture frame she made for his birthday, stating it's the best present he's ever gotten.
• "Pet Peeve": Salem's genuine concern over Sabrina's safety from a magic-draining warlock in disguise.
• "Paranormal Pi" Sabrina going out to comfort her friend despite what her great uncle thought about him and mortals in general, was actually pretty sweet.
• During "Strange New World" Pi is played as an antagonist because for his hatred for 'Tom', even going as far as to get him into trouble, but when he was cornered into confessing, Sabrina, Chloe and Harvey accepted his apology immediately, proving that friendship isn't about competition.
• During "Witchy Girls" Sabrina and Chloe are having a blazing row, listing all the stuff the other had borrowed that they want returned. As they're about to walk away, you can clearly see them both incredibly sad about the situation. Sabrina then says there's one more thing she wants back: her best friend.
• Sabrina talking to her mom in "Picture Perfect."
• The ending of "A Whitchmas Carole" Gem doesn't change her selfish ways at the end of the scare-em-straight lesson, but after she receives a simple gift from Sabrina out of kindness, she's absolutely touched and decides to give some presents to the Spellmans and join them for Christmas.
• Gem's broke episode as well. Despite being quite annoying and patronising, by the time Sabrina and her aunts want her to get back to normal, Gem is genuinely trying. In fact, when they go by Gem's house, Gem wonders if she ever was truly happy, in that house. When Sabrina helps her strike oil, Gem doesn't actually seem that happy that she's rich again. Before she goes back to normal, gives Sabrina a bottle and thanks her.
• "Upside Down Town" sees a positive effect of the magical Upside Down Cake - Gem becomes heroic and also figures out Sabrina's secret. And although Sabrina has to turn her back at the end, before she does, Gem apologises in advance for anything she says once she reverts to her Alpha Bitch persona.
• The episode about Heartbreak. The warlock who can cure heartbreak will only do so if Sabrina can show someone who has never experienced it. Turns out it was all a Secret Test of Character — everyone has experienced heartbrak, so the Warlock doesn't tell Sabrina how to cure it, but how to move on from it. He then gives a montage showing how Harvey helped someone else out with the game, Quigley picked up another plant, and most importantly Zelda & Hilda decided to take into account that others were less fortunate than they were.
• "Key To My Heart":
  • Quigley signs up Sabrina for piano lessons against her wishes, because she got involved with Harvey's latest immature stunt. (This is actually not a punishment; Quigley merely wants to give her a creative outlet.) She finds out, to her surprise, that the teacher is a Reasonable Authority Figure. Rather than force her to learn scales, where Sabrina admits she has no talent or desire, he plays music for her and tells her to imagine a story. He also tells her with sympathy that some guys do start as immature, and he was once like that. 
  • Sabrina announces to Quigley that she loves her new teacher, romantically. She finds him more mature than Harvey and considerate of other's feelings. Quigley gently gives Sabrina a version of The Talk: what she's feeling is not love, but infatuation. Real love involves building a relationship and reciprocating for how the other feels.
  • At the end of the episode, Sabrina admits that Quigley was right that she wasn't in love, but nursed an unrequited crush. She confesses about sabotaging her teacher's girlfriend but undoes the spell which also erases the teacher's memories of Sabrina. Rather than chide his niece as he normally would for misusing magic, Quigley comforts her with a sad smile and tells her You Did the Right Thing. He expresses sympathy that her first real crush went wrong, and she had to let him go for his happiness. 
  • After everything that happened, Sabrina goes to her teacher post-memory wipe and presents him with a bouquet for his latest concert. She indirectly thanks him for teaching her to appreciate music, and to learn about love. When he leaves, she plays a few keys on the piano perfectly, showing she actually did learn some music from the lessons.
• "Salem's Plot"
  • Salem begs Sabrina for help in preparing for his visit with Hephaestus. He even kisses her feet until she agrees to make a human suit for him. Sabrina agrees, and Chloe helps out despite the current argument they're having. She wishes him luck in piloting it.  
  • When they find out the school choir is holding auditions, Chloe and Sabrina accidentally start another feud because the spots are limited, and there's a possibility one of them will be cut. Chloe snarks that Sabrina better not use magic to win the audition with flying colors, since Sabrina has a habit of cheating. The auditions come up, with the audience expecting Sabrina to use yet another shortcut. Instead. Sabrina sings with her actual voice. Her pitch is off, but she has a sweet melody. She still does it with her own effort, and the director tells her she's decent, just needs to work on her pitch. 
  • This resolution inspires Sabrina to directly interfere with Salem and Hephaestus's rivalry. She tells them off for being so petty, that a friendship shouldn't involve meausuring egos this much, and they should make up.
• "Absence of Malissa" when Captain Malissa (who has been tormenting Sabrina the entire time at Witch Boot Camp due to her being half-mortal) get into a magic duel Malissa is about to be hit by a falling tree but Sabrina saves her. Malissa is stunned that Sabrina saved after how mean she was to her and Sabrina points out that she learned from her mortal mother that you should learn how to treat people the way you want to treated and that she thinks her and Malissa could be friends and then says that she learned from her mom and dad that no matter what people look like on the outside that inside there's something nice.
• In "Friends Forever", after Nicole is turned back to normal (thanks to Enchantra, who is touched by Sabrina's unselfish action and breaks the spell on Nicole), she and Sabrina embrace each other.

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