The pharmaceutical research laboratory.
This was Douglas's real objective in bringing Snape here.
Given the laboratory's special nature and high level of confidentiality, the factory had not opened its doors to them completely, instead cautiously arranging for them to remain in the corridor outside.
It was a spacious, brightly lit corridor, lined on both sides with thick, transparent reinforced glass walls, like a giant display window. Through this glass barrier, they could clearly see the busy yet orderly work taking place inside the laboratory.
The manager enthusiastically introduced it:
"Welcome to our pharmaceutical research laboratory. This is the heart of our development of new medicines. Although this is your first visit, we're very honored to show you the results of our work."
Douglas smiled and nodded, while Snape remained expressionless, his gaze sweeping over the laboratory's interior.
The walls were covered with charts and formulas, and the laboratory benches were crowded with test tubes, beakers, and other strange instruments.
Professor Snape wrinkled his nose slightly. He disdained this Muggle magic-or rather, technology-but he had to admit that the designs of these devices were truly ingenious.
As the manager explained, he discovered that Muggles did not make medicines directly from medicinal ingredients. Instead, they obtained the relevant components of a medicine from various substances through extraction and other methods, then synthesized the different components to produce new medicines.
What interested Snape was not the extraction of medicinal components to synthesize new medicines. That was already a traditional process in potion-making, merely directed toward a different goal.
What interested him was how Muggles could use these advanced instruments and equipment to separate the active components of medicinal ingredients with great precision, achieving far better results in preliminary processing than wizards could by hand.
Even with the extensive practice on food ingredients required