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2025-11-04
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The Theory of Transference

Summary:

In 1998, Lord Voldemort captured Harry Potter, won the war against the Muggles, and transformed Great Britain into Britannia Magica. Given the choice between rotting in a cell forever and joining him, Harry surrendered and took the Mark.

Five years later, Harry lives captive in Malfoy Manor while the war with Europe rages on. He kills his time by pacing the gardens, smoking with Draco Malfoy, and occasionally indulging in harder substances.

Life changes again when Voldemort discovers a ritual that could potentially transfer Harry's magic to another wizard. To test this ritual, he gives Harry to Severus Snape.

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Severus moved to the bed. What a hero, he thought, staring down at the boy. The Chosen One, the Boy who Lived.

Such crap. He was a child, even at twenty-three.

A stupid, wretched, shamefully daft, monumentally unlucky child.

“Lie down,” Severus told him.

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This story is heavily inspired by the scarcely documented opioid crisis in Germany’s nazi party. Multiple characters are high-functioning laudanum and/or morphine addicts.

Notes:

This story deals with multiple dark themes including but not limited to: rape as part of a magical ritual, graphic torture, gore, opium addiction (multiple characters), and religious psychosis (NOT Harry or Snape).

Expect deaths of side characters to come unannounced. Harry and Snape will NOT die, and no children will be irreparably harmed.

This story's main characters are Harry and Snape. Having said that, please note that side characters have their own arcs too, which are equally important to the plot. This story is told via multiple POVs, including but not limited to: Harry, Snape, the Malfoys, Voldemort, Delphini, and Dudley Dursley. Each one of these characters has their own arc. All the arcs will eventually merge into one.

Enjoy!

Chapter 1

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

4 January 2051

PROLOGUE

Before I begin, I must preface this manuscript with a warning: this is a story.

A preposterous, offensive memoir that bears no truth, and should rightly be burned.

The truth about the Dark Lord’s rise resides only within the official Archives, approved by the Council of Shadows and preserved in the British Library.

All else is lies. 

BURN IT!

By having this in your possession, your life is at risk. This story slanders the Dark Lord and his First Followers.

RIP IT APART!

…But if you don’t. If you insist on reading the lies I scribbled out of madness—then know that this is not a story of endings, nor of beginnings.

This is the story of Severus Snape and his crimes.

The story of the Malfoys, and the unfortunate events that led to their tragic fate.

The story of Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived.

There is no moral to this story. No conclusion and no absolution.

I will merely recount the events as my aging mind oftentimes imagines having experienced them.

If this story was true, I would admit that telling it has been the mission of a lifetime.

But worry not. It is not true. It's lies.

Read it, if you must, but remember this: before you read my filthy lies, you had every opportunity to turn back. To leave this memoir on whatever table, steps, or carriage seat you found it on, and walk away.

Alas, you did not, and now you must bear the burden of what is to come.

 

Master Archivist Dominic Wimer

Glory to the Dark Lord—or not.

 

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