Celebwen Telcontar: Well, I do hope that no one throws stuff at me again. I don't like being hit with tomatoes and half-rotten cantaloupe, you know.

Balrog: Then don't give a Cliffhanger.

Celebwen Telcontar: But I like doing it. Anyways, Evenqueen decided that the disclaimer looked good, so she ate it.

Evenqueen: What do you mean? I didn't eat the disclaimer! I'm a Mearas for crying out loud, a mare, a horse! But you don't own anything but the plot.

Celebwen Telcontar: See? When Balrog ate the disclaimer, he told it. Now my silvery Mearas mare decides to eat the disclaimer, and now she tells it!

Evenqueen: Don't get too cocky, Celebwen.

Balrog: Well, here goes!

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Actaeon, Tithonus, and Kilissa yelped as the earth stopped shaking. Deianira furrowed her brow and clung to Tithonus, while Antigone and Atalanta held to Actaeon. Kilissa and Harmonia stood near, but did not cling to, Severus, Kilissa still holding her cloth used for scrubbing the tables.

What is that…thing, Mother? Harmonia asked, looking at a small creature, smaller than a small dog even, with a squished in face, bright orange fur, and a tail that looked like a pine tree's bristles. It made a strange thrumming sound, cried out, and trotted over to Kilissa, and she looked at it for a few minutes. One of the horses ambled over to the creature, and sniffed it. The beast looked at the black stallion, sniffed him, and started thrumming all over again.

"Who… Ohmigod! Mum! Muuuum!!!!! Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Professor Snape are back! And they have some strange people and horses with them!" a girl cried. Harmonia simply looked at the girl, while Atalanta began to whimper and cry.

Oh my… Ginny?! Tithonus cried. Unfortunately, he cried out in Greek. The girl with hair the same color as the creature's fur raised her eyebrows.

"But they don't speak English!" the girl cried. A rather plump woman who wore rather patched up wizarding robes walked down and stared at the Greek returnees.

"Harry?!" the woman asked.

Mum? Ron cried. Deianira looked up at him, confused, her eyebrows up.

Tithonus, this is your mother?

Yes, Deianira. This is my mother. The little one is my little sister, Virginia. Ginny's head shot up at her name being said in a foreign sentence with a strange accent.

"We… Greek. Not… speak… Enless? No… English."

"Professor, why don't they speak English and you speak it only barely?"

"Severus, are you trying to say that you have been in Greece for an extended period of time? That's why you all look so old? I mean Ron looks about the same age as Arthur, for crying aloud! How long did they spend there?"

"Mum, calm down! Fred and George just perfected those Language Lozenges, so you can give each of them English ones. I'll owl them." Ginny went up and grabbed a minute owl, scribbled a note for eight Language Lozenges, and waited.

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It was about two hours later that the owl returned. Actaeon lifted his head from the plate of food that he had conjured, and caught the owl, showing that he still had his Seeker skills. Arthur sat, slowly munching on a humongous lunch of lamb, lettuce, tzaziki sauce, olives, Feta cheese, all sorts of fruits, and rich red wine when the owl came in. He took the letter and small package from Actaeon, then red it slowly aloud for Severus to translate. He changed several of the harder words, and kept to basically baby talk, then handed the English lozenges to the Greeks.

Severus translated the letter, then popped the small candy into his mouth.

"Thank you, Arthur. That was needed. Kilissa, Harmonia, Actaeon, Tithonus, Antigone, Deianira, and Atalanta, please eat these. They will help with the language. Kilissa downed hers first, then had Harmonia eat her small candy. The little girl was very resistant to eating the candy, and nearly spit it out.

"Mother, that tasted yucky. Not as yucky as the med'cine, but still yucky."

"I know, Harmonia, I know."

"Good Merlin, Hermione! That girl… Look at her! She has black eyes and the Professor's nose! Hermione, did you adopt that girl?"

Kilissa, dear, Severus murmured in Greek, They're talking to you.

"Oh. No, I did not adopt her. She is my daughter, with my husband." Kilissa held Severus close, kissing him lightly on the lips. Ginny went white, Tithonus simply turned his head, and Molly's eyes popped. Arthur spat out the piece of lamb he was eating, and began choking on an olive pit. Molly went over and removed the pit the Muggle way: the Heimlich maneuver.

"I… see. Well, this is certainly… interesting. I never expected you to come back married to Professor Snape, of all people! I didn't expect you all to come back married in any case! And with children!" Deianira looked downcast, and Ginny asked her why.

"Deianira and I have been trying for children for some time, but with no success. Actaeon and Severus have their children, such little darlings, but none of our own. I know how much Deianira had her heart set on having children."

"I'm sorry," Molly consoled quietly.

"Well, we'd best tell Professor Dumbledore that we have returned, and let my aunt and uncle know. They'll flip, me being just younger than them and with a wife and daughter, of all things."

"I'll be going back to see Kilissa's family, and let them see Harmonia." Severus picked his daughter up, smoothing the hair from her face and wiping the olive juice and tzaziki sauce from her face. Actaeon went out, hitched his horses to his chariot, and called for Antigone and Atalanta. He then said goodbye to the people of the Burrow, and drove off for Surrey, the horses keeping to the fields, since they were thouroghly startled by the cars.

Actaeon calmed his horses to a point, calling for them to slow down and working the reins. The people looked out their windows at the charioteers as if they were insane, and soon they stopped by 4 Privet Drive.

"Alright, Antigone, Atalanta, do you want to meet what's left of my family? Don't worry, I'll keep you safe." Antigone was huddling close to Actaeon, the strange sights having frightened her considerably. Actaeon cast a quick privacy charm, and then Transfigured the horses into a state of the line automobiele, his tunic into a grey tweed business suit, trimmed his hair and beard to a respectable length, and did the same to his wife and daughter. Antigone was now in a light blue three-piece cotton suit, stockings and loafers completeing the outfit, and Atalanta was in a cute light green and white dress with white dress shoes and her hair in cute little pigtails. He glanced at Antigone, who was sporting a fashionable Muggle hairstyle, and he flashed her a swift smile, modified the Muggle's memories, removed the privacy charm, and rang the bell.

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Celebwen Telcontar: What will the Dursleys think of Harry/Actaeon's changes, and with Atalanta and Antigone? Give me some ideas, please! Next chapter will be with Dumbledore, and the appointment of some new teachers! Please review!