[Was it normal for hugs to last this long? Prefect decided that Barron had probably done more of them than he had, so he should allow this to continue.]

It's really not your fault, Comrade. Things like this happen to me quite a lot, I think I'm just... exceptionally unlucky.

[Because he wasn't going to start actively thinking of himself as an easy target, not even if it was true. Hell no.]