Aurora's Dorm

Alli ignored most of the people she passed, but she saw that Aurora's door was open and abandoned all plans in favor of something else. "Hey Rory," she didn't wait for an invitation to come in and make herself comfortable on Aurora's bed.

She helped herself to a Chocolate Frog. "So what's with the PDA in the Great Hall?" she asked without preamble.

"It's all good. It was amusing to say the least," Alli replied. She thought about getting up to go shut the door, but a shut door to a Slytherin was like putting up a neon sign screaming COME EAVESDROP ON US, so she left it open. "Go on, I want details," she said. "That girl looked like she was enjoying it. I have to assume she was, otherwise she had no reason to be staring at the two of you."

Hearing Aurora talk about Caden made Alli think about her slowly forming friendship with a certain James Wilson. The only difference was that she and James certainly hadn't kissed and she wasn't planning on anything like that to ever happen. And he was a Gryffindor. Making friends with a Gryffindor was pretty much the worst sin a Slytherin could commit. It was based on hassling a Ravenclaw though, so that made it slightly less awful... hopefully.

She pushed James to the back of her mind. That was a headache just waiting to happen. "That Emily Emilia Em-whatever girl is nuts, I think. She actually had the nerve to walk up to me in the Common Room," Alli said in disgust. The mere memory of having to talk to that girl made her want to kick something. "Maybe if we're lucky she'll get committed to St. Mungos or something."

"Or we could just toss her off the Astronomy tower into the lake and hope that the giant squid eats her," Alli suggested with the most innocent smile she could muster, as if she was a child giving her mother a painting she'd done. "Her and Sami Criss could start an Idiocy Club, I swear," she said.

Alli reached for another Chocolate Frog and was mid-bite when Aurora asked her question, causing her to choke a bit. It came down to a choice between being truthful and lying, and both sides were tugging at her mind, begging to be chosen. "Not really," she said. It was mostly truthful, anyway. "There's Tom, who I'm molding into a better Slytherin, but..." her voice trailed off as she debated what to say next.

"I might be friends with a Gryffindor," she whispered quickly to Aurora, just to get it out into the universe. "Promise you won't tell. It's embarrassing," she said at a normal volume again.

Alli had taken a bit of a liking to Thomas. He was raw material but she could definitely work with it. "Just give me a few more days and he'll be the perfect Slytherin," she said with a grin. She already had him intimidating people into giving up their belongings. It was only a matter of time before he was just right.

"I don't even know who that is," Alli replied. "No, his name is James Wilson. We somehow ended up going into the Forest with Sami, but Professor Cooper caught us and we got a detention. I got another detention during that detention, but it was completely worth it. I think he got another one as well," she said thoughtfully. They'd both done things they weren't supposed to during that detention, though her "accidentally" bumping a potted plant off the table was probably worse than the handful of fertilizer that he'd thrown at Sami.

"Yeah, I suppose so," Alli said as she thought a bit more about it. She hadn't really looked at him in that light before, since he was supposed to be off-limits as a Gryffindor, but he was quite cute. "It's not really like that though. I just like getting him to throw crap at Sami," she snickered at the memory.