3am? Really now. Kat wouldn't be able to handle that at all. The latest she'd probably went for was 11pm, and that already seemed too early compared to Lex sleeping at 3 in the morning. The Head Girl blinked a few times. She couldn't imagine how it felt like to sleep by that time and wake up a few hours later. Like, really? That was possible? "That seems pretty tiring. I'd never be able to stay up that late," she said. 3am was technically early, but it was still late at the same time... if that even made sense, you know. Imagine how awful her eye bags would be once she woke up? Horrible. But then, she wasn't supposed to think of that. Kat then shifted her attention back to the task they were supposed to finish before the other schools.

Okay, that was what you call teamwork. While Lex looked for the herbs and all that stuff, Kat imagined the things inside the cave. It looked... empty. Empty except for the poor house elf (stop looking at it, Katrina), cauldron, herbs, and Kat and Lex. Nothing else but that.

A stone. Yeah, that could work. "I don't see any stones. Try summoning one?" Maybe they could like, let stones fall out of the sky? Kat didn't care if she got bruises from raining rocks as long as she had something to use to powderize the galangal. Falling mortars and pestles would be much more helpful though. Just saying. Kat pondered on other things. Alternatives and all. She didn't know any charm that they could use to powderize it. Nothing from their surroundings looked helpful either. Like they could totally use a basil to powderize the galangal, right? Then she looked at her feet. SQUINT. "Or maybe the heel of our shoes. We could clean it with Scourgify and start... uhm, powderizing it?" Kat's shoes had some sort of heel which could be useful. She knew it seemed a bit gross and yeah, but it didn't seem like they had another option right? It was like a survival kind of thing. Kat wasn't good at that though, but she kept an open mind right now.

As for the snargaluff, Kat just listened to Lex. She knew more Herbology-related things than Kat did, anyway, so the information she'd be able to get from her pseudo!sister would be quite useful. She was sort of relieved that they wouldn't have to strangle the plant. But then, trying to stick your arm inside its mouth was fifty times worse. If that was the only way, though, then Kat would gladly do it. "Alright, I think we can start brewing in a bit. We'll just have to powderize this galangal first and measure 5 grams." How do people even measure 5 grams without a spoon? And 500 milliliters of water? Could measuring cups and tablespoons fall out of the sky now?

But before thaaaaaaaat, she needed to clean the cauldron. "Scourgify... Tergeo." 5 C's of Potions, ain't it?