Aleksei was muggleborn and Hogwarts had been a whole new world to them but it wasn't the same. "And even here I do not belong," Aleksei sighed. "Do you ever feel like... maybe you are more than what society says you are?" Aleksei was told that they were a 'boy' for example but... it didn't feel right. Aleksei lived it but did not resonate with it or feel like they were being true to who they were as a person.