Madame Promfrey finally cleared Alli to leave the next day around lunch. She saw students heading to the Great Hall but none of her friends were among them. She went to the Common Room and found Fred and George sitting on a couch, hovering over test tubes. George mixed the silvery liquid in one with the dark brown liquid in another. Instantly a large cloud of smoke rose out of the tube and grew larger the higher it went. As it hovered above the twins' heads, they looked up at it like toddlers on Christmas morning. Alli also watched fascinated, but she kept her distance since she knew how their experiments turned out.
And this time did not disappoint. As the twins were staring up, rain started to fall from the cloud which quickly turned into a downpour. In a matter of seconds, Fred and George were completely soaked and Alli could not breathe because of how hard she was laughing. "Oh so you think this is funny" Fred said finally noticing she was watching. He rushed over to her and, before she could run, he enveloped her in his wet clothing. And, to make it better, George joined in on the other side forming a Weasley twin sandwich with Alli filling. When they were done, they filled her in on what had happened with the troll. "Blimey, they are lucky to be alive!" Alli knew that Hermione was going to get into trouble if she chose Harry Potter as a friend. Ron would get her into trouble as well but not the kind that would put her life in danger.
"So what happened to last night? Snape looked as if he would pull off your arm, hurrying off the way he did." Fred asked as Alli motioned them to take a step back so she could magically dry them off along with herself. "Oh you know, another sleepover with Madame Pomfrey." Alli joked as finished drying herself. George flopped onto the couch again, "You should just have your bed moved in there. You spend more nights there than in the dormitory." Alli sat down next to George while Fred balanced on the arm next to her. As the three continued their jokes at each other's expense, the troll fighting trio came trotting into the Common Room. They seemed happy, even Hermione was smiling. As they passed by Alli and the twins, Hermione met Alli's eyes and smiled. Alli knew she should have felt glad that Hermione had finally made friends and was starting to fit in, but she only felt anger and hatred.
Since the first Quidditch game of the year was in the next few days, Alli, Fred, and George decided to see if the field was free for some practice. Alli had tried out for the team and gotten one of the Chaser positions, and Fred and George had reclaimed their Beater positions. Unfortunately, the team had lost their Seeker this year and the one and only Harry Potter had snagged the position even though he was only a first year. Alli was not pleased by having to be teammates with the boy, but she would just have to bite her tongue and deal with it. If she was lucky, he would get hit with a Bludger and never want to play again. Madame Hooch was at the Pitch watching a few Ravenclaws do some Quaffle drills. The trio decided to strike up a scrimmage with the Ravenclaws with Madame Hooch as the referee. It was a tough match that remained lighthearted. In the end the Ravenclaws won and the trio congratulated them before heading back to the castle for lunch.
As they got closer to the castle, they passed a group of Slytherins. Draco was among them and started off a chorus of heckling about the upcoming Quidditch match. Alli was able to ignore it well enough, until Draco made a comment about Alli being a traitor to her family. "Save me a seat, I'll be in in a moment." Alli said as she handed Fred her broom. George looked confused, but Fred gave her a knowing nod. She marched over to the group and pushed her way to Draco. Several Slytherins moved out her way. Even though they did not know whom she was, they knew she was somehow related to Draco; and no one got in the way of a Malfoy or anyone of blood relation when they were angry. She grabbed the collar of her cousin's robe and pulled him into the nearest empty classroom. "I have had enough of this, Draco. The only way I could be considered a traitor is if I completely cut myself off from my family and no longer loved them. They are still my family, you are still my family. No matter what you say or any of you do, I will still love you. I may not believe in the same values as you and your parents. But, we have the same enemy and he has befriended my best friend. I may not want him dead like you, but I want him out of my life. He killed my father." With that, Alli turned and left Draco before he could respond. She didn't leave her family, they left her. The night her mother and Rodolphus were taken away still haunted her dreams. She remembered her mother fighting and screaming for her, but Rodolphus had done nothing but allowed himself to be led away. She couldn't blame him, after all she wasn't really his, but he did not fight to be with her even though he raised her. By the time Alli had taken her seat next Fred in the Great Hall, she had gone from being agree to being depressed. "You alright?" Fred asked as she sat down. Alli decided to lie and tell him she was just worried about the match, if they couldn't beat the small group of Ravenclaws how could they beat Slytherin.
The rest of the week, Alli tried to just focus on her school work and practice, but she started to have severe nightmares again. Usual she only had one or two every couple of months, but she had had one every night that week. They were all very similar. Alli was a child again, sitting on her mother's lap, and feeling happy. But then a strange gray mist covers cocoons them, and everywhere she looks is the face of her father. Images of the Dark Lord would appear one right after the other, each one was telling her to avenge his death, to kill the one who killed him, to fulfill her birthright. One night Alli was woken up by Katie. They were standing on the stairs that lead to the boy dormitory. That was when Alli knew that her dreams were starting to dominate her. She could not lose control of her free will. Even though she hated Harry Potter, she was not going to allow a dream force her to kill him. If she was going to do that, it would be her choice and on her terms.
Alli got called to Professor Dumbledore's office the next day. He wanted to discuss Alli's constant absences from her Defense Against the Dark Arts class and why she stopped assisting Professor Quirrel with his lessons for the first years. "I can't stay in that classroom for very long Professor. Every time I am in there I get such a severe headache that it feels like I have been hit in the head with a barrage of Bludgers." Alli rubbed her temples to emphasize her point. She sat across from the headmaster hoping that she could think of a way to get out of going to her class ever again. Dumbledore seem to take into consideration everything she was saying. "I understand that certain parts of that class could make you uncomfortable. But that does not mean you can just skip the class. We will figure out a way to make this work so you get the education required by our standards and that makes you comfortable. Now go and rest up, I expect tomorrow's Quidditch match to be quite exhilarating." He showed Alli out and smiled as he closed the door behind her.