Dora had said Theo was scared of the vermin near his dorms and common room, yeah? Which meant that there were rodents hanging about the dungeons. As soon as Lafay let them go to round up ingredients, Alice headed down there immediately. Looked like living in a sub-par, dusty, filthy castle had its perks sometimes, yeah? Like now. Having pest animals around the Slytherin areas could prove to be particularly helpful at the moment.

So where were they?

She took a good look around, glancing at the edges of the walls, barely noticing when something scurried over her shoes. Alice didn't jump- she wasn't scared of a little RAT, thank you very much- but instead waited until it had passed a little while along and tugged her robe sleeves down so that they were covering her hands. And then she dove into the ground for it. Her cloth-covered hands closed around the furry little thing, one of them releasing it's grip on the animal to grab her wand.

Could she stun it? Like, she didn't want to accidentally sever her hand or anything, that would be painful and unnecessary and cause her to deviate from the rest of her ingredient gathering. And she was on a DEADLINE here, k, rat? "Stupefy." With a jet of red light shot at it, the rat went limp, and Alice set it down again before proceeding. "Diffindo." Easy enough, getting a rat tail, yeah? Still 35 minutes left, too.

That was how it was done, everyone.