As much as Kat wanted to hurry up, help the poor house elf, and leave the cave immediately, she couldn't do that. This task was gonna take a lot of time and it definitely required a lot of thinking and a lot remembering what to do in brewing the potion she had in mind. Her eyes fell on the house elf once more. Merlin, she had to do this quick. As Alexa enumerated the herbs she saw in the cave. In Kat's head, she had a checklist and the herbs Lex had been identifying were being checked off the list. "Whoa. How long did that take for you to remember all of those things?" Like, seriously? Kat wouldn't have known that plant over there was holly.

And once THAT was done, some sort of light bulb lit up in her head. "I got it. Looks like I'm gonna brew a deflating draft," Kat said and BEAMED. Because, heck, she knew it. All the reading of her potions books and even the other resources in the library paid off. "First, could you bring me... uhmm..." PONDERING. How much measurements did she need of these ingredients? "A handful of wood sorrel and... a galangal." She'd let Lex take an aloe leaf later, because she remembered that they needed it fresh. As for the galangal... Kat needed powdered galangal.

... Oh, so now they were facing a problem. "Got any ideas on how we could powderize the galangal? And what we're supposed to use to stir the potion?" Not that they had a stone in here or a ladle. Or anything they could use to powderize it and stir. Did they have their wands, even? "And would you be able to strangle that snargaluff over there later? We'll be needing two snargaluff pods in the potion too." A competition like this couldn't be easy, right? It was a battle of the bests, and one thing Kat wanted was to make sure it was Hogwarts who came out victorious.

Then a few more side glances for the house elf. Her Slytherheart was feeling all sorts of pity for it with every glance.