It wasn't too long after Norman accepted Neil's friendship. As a matter of fact, it was just a few minutes after. The town, as they were cleaning the mess caused by Aggie's rampage, started to talk about Norman and Mr. Prenderghast, Norman's uncle:

"So Norman really can see and talk to ghosts."

"Wait but if he can, then his uncle can too."

"You mean Mr. Prenderghast? The guy who takes care of the cemetery?"

"Yeah."

"Gee, now I feel bad for making fun of him."

"So do I, in fact we should plan an apology party."

That last line was said by the mayor, who had overheard the rest of the townspeople talking.

"I agree." Mrs. Babcock spoke up. "Besides, I haven't seen my brother in years. It would be great to see him again."

Norman paled and looked ashamed.

"What's wrong?" Neil asked.

"Mr. Prenderghast..." Norman said quietly. "I just remembered."

He then stood up and faced where most of the crowd, including the mayor and his mom, were.

"Uh everyone, can I have your attention please?" Norman said awkwardly.

Everyone gave him their attention.

"Uh, there's something you need to know about Mr. Prenderghast." Norman continued, still feeling awkward. "Yesterday he visited me at school to convince me to end the curse. That is he visited me...as a ghost."

The town now looked very shocked. Mrs. Babcock looked as if she was about to cry.

"But that means he's-" Neil couldn't finish; even though Norman had already told him about Mr. Prenderghast's ghost visiting him it hadn't really registered in his mind.

"Dead." Norman confirmed. "I'm afraid so."

The town was pretty much speechless after that. After a couple minutes the mayor spoke up.

"Well, in that case the apology party will be changed to a funeral with apologies." He decided.

And that's what they did. They headed for Mr. Prenderghast's house, Norman leading the way, and gave him a proper funeral. During the funeral the mayor spoke for the whole town as he apologized to Mr. Prenderghast, but even so a few people who had made fun of Mr. Prenderghast a little more than the rest of the town did their own apologies. Mr. Babcock was one of them.

After the funeral Mr. Prenderghast's belongings were packed up and given to the Babcock family to sort through. Finally most of the town left and only Neil and the Babcocks remained. Mrs. Babcock spoke first.

"I'll miss you brother, I wish I could've seen you one last time before you died." She said sadly. "But I am glad that you finally got the respect you deserve, even if it wasn't while you were still alive."

"Thank you, uncle, for convincing me to hold back the curse." Norman then said. "If you hadn't then I wouldn't have helped our ancestor find peace, nor would I have made the town see the truth about us."

"Your ancestor?" Neil spoke up.

"Yeah, Agatha Prenderghast." Norman explained. "She was the so-called witch. Judge Hopkins and the other people who became undead hung her because they thought her ability to talk to ghosts was a witch power. Aggie was so scared and hurt that she cursed them to suffer the same treatment."

"Oh man..." Neil winced. "So is she, what, your many great-grandmother or something?"

"Cousin or aunt." Norman corrected. "She never had children. She couldn't anyway...she was around our age when she was hung."

Neil and the rest of the Babcock family looked horrified. And with good reason.

"God, I'm glad that sort of thing is pretty much illegal." Courtney said. "Of course people still would go that far...but at least it's not as common anymore. Right?"

"You're right, we don't do hanging that much anymore." Mr. Babcock confirmed. "Pretty much only Washington and New Hampshire really use it, and even then it's just an option for convicts."

The Babcocks now decided to leave, though Neil stayed behind for a moment.

"Before I go, I'm sorry for acting mean to you a few days back." Neil said to Mr. Prenderghast's grave. "I didn't even know who you were then, I was just defending Norman since he looked uncomfortable around you. Again I'm really sorry...oh, gotta go Norman and I planned to hang out today." Neil saw that Norman was far ahead of him. "I'll come back later!"

Well, that detail had been settled. But what about Aggie and Judge Hopkins and the others? Well, here's what happened:

Aggie of course entered Heaven and saw her family again, especially her mom. Then surprisingly, Judge Hopkins and the other accusers appeared before the gate.

"What?" Judge Hopkins said. "Why are we up here?"

"Well it wasn't like you killed Aggie out of malice or anything." A voice said.

Startled, Judge Hopkins and the others looked up and saw the head angel who oversaw the comings and goings (mostly comings) of angels.

"What you did was out of fear, plus you thought you were protecting the town." The head angel continued. "Then after you realized the truth you felt remorse and wanted to set everything right."

"We haven't set everything right...not yet." Judge Hopkins said sadly. "Uh, do you have any paper and pens I could use?"

"Sure thing, Heaven has everything angels need after all." The head angel smiled.

Instantly paper and a pen, a 1700s quill pen, appeared before Judge Hopkins.

"Can you also make sure that this will become tangible to the living?" Judge Hopkins asked.

"Yes, but why?" The head angel was now confused.

"Because I'm going to give this to the young boy who helped calm Agatha Prenderghast." Judge Hopkins explained.

"Oh you mean Norman Babcock, her descendant." The head angel realized. "Really nice boy, I know he has a wonderful future in store for him."

"He deserves one." Judge Hopkins nodded as he wrote on the paper. "I'll be back." He added once he was done.

Now Aggie hadn't been accepted into Heaven right away, but only because there had been other people before her. This also meant that it took a while for Judge Hopkins and the others to also reach the gate (Aggie didn't know they were behind her since they didn't want her to see them yet). Because of this it was actually the day after Mr. Prenderghast was buried when Judge Hopkins returned to Earth as a ghost.