Having a single wizard brew an entire cauldron of potion from start to finish was too slow to meet the Venus Series' growing demand for Beauty Potion. More importantly, the potions brewed by different wizards varied in effectiveness, making quality control impossible and causing slight differences in the results of each batch of the Venus Series.
To solve these problems, Murphy had long planned to industrialize Beauty Potion production as well.
Unlike Essence of Dittany, however, Beauty Potion involved numerous ingredients and a complicated brewing process. Identifying its actual active ingredients was difficult, which also made industrial production without wizards difficult.
The only option, then, was an assembly line: break down the brewing process so that each person was responsible for one specific step, using simple, standardized procedures to produce a more consistent output with greater efficiency.
"How much Beauty Potion can you brew here each day now?" Murphy asked.
"About six hundred cauldrons. If we switched to three shifts, we could get another two hundred."
Eight hundred cauldrons meant over fifteen hundred liters—more than five times the previous daily output of roughly three hundred liters.
And the quality was more consistent, too.
"Hire more people and add another production line," Murphy said.
After inspecting the factory, Murphy and Isaac returned to the front.
"Isaac, how much do you know about Amortentia?"
"Quite a bit," Isaac said. "Potion shops generally aren't allowed to sell Amortentia openly, but almost every shop sells it on the sly. Aurors usually don't bother with that sort of thing. The Magical Law Enforcement Patrol occasionally conducts inspections, but we can just hide the potions when they come. If the inspection is really strict, we can always turn the potions into water."
That was how the Wizarding World's laws worked: plenty of rules, but most were