Through the other party's relatively plainspoken introduction, Harry and Ron gradually realized that once the so-called "universal functional group" was successfully introduced, its impact might spread across the entire global wizarding world!
And it would affect everything.
Among other things, Belby mentioned the feasibility of "the industrialization of potions."
In the article, Belby cited the course of Muggle development, recounting the tremendous explosion in productivity brought about by Muggle industrialization and the role it had played in propelling the rise of Muggle civilization.
Limited by their knowledge, Harry and Ron could not really understand why this so-called "industrialization" and explosion in productivity could promote the development of civilization.
In their minds, magic was already extraordinary enough. What more was there to explode?
Of course, the article did not reveal only positive aspects.
Just as they had seen earlier, Belby took every few paragraphs to mock his peers, with every line suggesting that the publication of Vaughn's paper had been met with "extreme jealousy" and "slanderous defamation" from his colleagues.
Although Harry and Ron had limited life experience, after being exposed over the past two years to all kinds of public controversies surrounding Vaughn's C, they vaguely understood that once a dispute over something became public, it meant the conflicts surrounding it could no longer be reconciled.
After reaching the end and closing the magazine, Harry frowned and thought for a moment before saying worriedly, "It seems—there are a lot of potion-makers who oppose it!"
Ron said as if it were only natural, "If I were a potion-maker and someone challenged my authority, planning to let every Tom, Dick, and Harry become a potion-maker, I'd go mad too—but then again, as an ordinary wizard, if I could brew my own potions but a whole bunch of potion-makers wouldn't let me, I'd