She’d seen Draco slip into Hermione’s tent before sundown and he had yet to come out. Alina knew her friend spent the previous day writing out a detailed description of everything she thought was wrong with the British Ministry, and Alina watched in awe at the ease with which words came to Hermione. She wasn’t sure she could ever be so eloquent in describing everything that angers her, but she is not angry at the fact that Hermione is trying to get her cake and eat it too, Draco Malfoy and a reform of the Ministry that isn’t a literal bloodbath. She only wishes she could find it in herself to do the same, to stop hoovering halfway and just take a decision already: side with Aleksander or against him with Mal or Nikolai.