1Author: Erik deSoir

Title: A Brief Look at the Hug, by Draco Malfoy

Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended, blah blah blah

Warnings: None!

Notes: 509 words, I think.

It's amazing how people can take certain things for granted. My parents never really touch me, not ever as a child. Oh, I suspect my mother would have liked to. No doubt Father told her not to coddle me. But the Weasleys, on the other hand, use hugs in everything they do.

They greet each other with them. They console each other with them. They hug each other when they get excited about something. It's an interesting phenomenon.

However, I never felt more a part of something when Molly Weasley hugged me when Harry told her she was invited to our wedding. I doubt I ever will, no matter how many hugs I've gotten since.