"There's too much at stake here," she shoots back. "I can't afford to slow us down." Really, her single, solitary goal is the recovery of Mana and Alice, if it's possible. But she has a sinking feeling it might not be, and that's why she's resolved herself to see this through until the witch's blood coats the floor. It's not something she's going to be proud of later, but it's what's important now. She raises an eyebrow at his returned comment on his own power, but she wasn't here to watch over him and make sure he didn't do anything he couldn't handle. That wasn't her job, and she didn't have time for that.

Draco, on the other hand, was impressing her with a fairly vast array of spells, and it probably didn't help that she recognized them as things he should actually know for the most part, rather than throwing out Unforgivables left and right. She winces briefly when he throws out the last, though, and mentally wills him to return to stunners and body-binds before they got caught in the crossfire. Aloud, she adds, "Aren't you overdoing it back there?"