HP: The Shadow Nexus
"Gold buys power. Secrets buy survival. But in the shadows, even legends can be traded."
In the underbelly of New York, Antonio "The Viper" Moretti dies as he lived—by the knife, betrayed and bleeding out on a mahogany floor. But death is not the end. Reborn as Vladimir "Vlad" Kray, a nine-year-old orphan in 1980s London, he awakens with a chilling advantage: "The System", a cosmic marketplace where anything—skills, secrets, even souls—can be traded across the multiverse.
Armed with the cold calculus of a mafia don and a child’s unassuming face, Vlad navigates the bleak corridors of Wool’s Orphanage, trading trifling memories and pilfered trinkets for Gold Coins.Vlad is no hero-in-waiting. When Hogwarts’ letters arrive, he burns his own, choosing instead to carve a path through Diagon Alley’s shadows—a faceless trader bartering cursed artifacts and Ministry secrets, his every move veiled.
Yet the wizarding world is not so easily outmaneuvered. As Harry Potter stumbles into his destiny, Vlad’s web of trades draws the attention of goblins, spies, and a certain twinkle-eyed headmaster. To survive, he must balance the debts of his past life against the lethal economy of magic, where every transaction risks exposure—or worse, a fate worse than death.