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• behind the demiguise curtain by combat_epistemologist

  Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  13 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • some guy's beautiful violent transgender wife/some guy (also transgender)
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • Tom Riddle | Voldemort
  • Albus Dumbledore
  • Lucius Malfoy
  • Dolores Umbridge
  • Dark Magic
  • Pureblood Politics (Harry Potter)
  • Mad Scientists
  • Dark Academia
  • his erdos number is like five which is surprising since he is a necromancer
  • Workplace Comedy
  • Pureblood Culture (Harry Potter)
  • is bad
  • misinformation about the english civil war
  • Trans Male Character
  • california girls: they're unethical
  • kinds of guy you meet in the sf bay area: aspiring dark lord
  • Corpse Desecration
  • Non-Consensual Drug Use
  • consensual drug use
  • Practicing Therapy Without A License
  • the ring horcrux does shrooms in amsterdam
  • complex PTSD
  • hello pete walker fight type how are you today
  • Multiplicity/Plurality
  • main character has an Um Interesting conception of ethics
  • Nonconsensual Horcrux Removal
  • Mind Control
  • memory fuckery
  • genuinely struggling to cw this
  • fics for when you are 30 or 40 years old and do not need this
  • fics that come with a bibliography
  • my beta: he's just a little berkeley boy!
  • tom riddle making-him-worse arc
  • this 90s queer period piece is somewhat altered by the fact that the mc's wife murdered several critical us politicans a decade earlier
  • but that wasn't Relevant To Harry's Journey

  Summary

  With the Ministry denying Voldemort’s return, Dumbledore needs to find a politically neutral and ideally halfway competent Defense professor before the Ministry foists their own stooge upon him. His hiring practices are questionable, but Leo Nyquist (California-based magical theorist, Deathly Hallows seeker, and occasional Dark Lord) isn’t going to complain.

  A fic about being Employed in the background of the epic fantasy, evil trans solidarity, early modern English history, American wizard worldbuilding that isn’t just Britain II, the purebloods as an unemployed knightly class that’s started eating its own, and masc v. masc cyber-ontological warfare for the fate of a special rock. Also, ninja-dodging every archive warning by having your protag do ‘philosophy thought experiment’–ass crimes.

  Series

  • Part 3 of only adult in the room

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  9,403

  Chapters:

  1/?

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  Kudos:

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