Talk:Toxic/@comment-68.100.81.51-20131226194832/@comment-121.74.218.1-20131228085206

If you read Ali's Pretty Little Lies, there's a passage right at the end which explains the hate and anger. She considers it as them being the catalyst for Courtney becoming her - p289 "They were the ones who'd facilitated Courtney's ascent into Ali-dom."

I suppose that once she'd dealt with Courtney she wanted to go after the girls who unwittingly helped Courtney. After all, she spent months in hospital when it was apparent at the beginning of the twins' troubles that she was fine - see the beginning of APLL.

As for how she knew so much about them, Courtney-as-Ali kept a journal. She had a love letter from Emily, journaled about Hanna's bulimia and Aria's dad, and it seems that she's probably fairly intelligent, and real Ali said that she read the journal.

Eventually, I guess, she'd just develop a twisted personality and begin to warp things to suit her needs. If she needs a new scapegoat for her life being destroyed and she can't pin it on her sister, she'll take it out on her sister's friends.

I'm very keen to see the arc of the last books: if she catches and does kill one or more of the liars. In that case, I'd love to know what comes next.