Harry did not know how he arrived at this point. The last thing he remembered was walking through the Veil after the combination of nukes and Voldemort destroyed his world. What Voldemort could not finish was done by muggles when World War III started. Nukes were raining down left, right, and center. All his friends that had survived had gone into hiding, creating small warded communities with everything from Air to water purification to the artificial sun, which allowed them to live like the old world. Still, they were just surviving, making the best or the worst situation. Still, it would only sustain them for six to seven years as the magic here was corrupted. It needed some time to purify and recharge, about around 100 years, before it could again support life.

During the war with Voldemort, he started learning about ancient runes and arithmancy due to the necessity of it. In one of the old books, he came across The Veil, which piqued his interest. When he came across a suggestion that the Veil could be a portal to the other world, and as it was the reason he lost Sirus, he started just gathering books on the Veil. Well, then, this was one of the theories he spent little time on. Still, after World War III, he seriously started exploring that idea. With more than five years of work, the book's suggestion seems correct or as correct as it can be without testing.

So here he was going to do one of the most stupid things he had ever done, and with his track record, that is saying something. What is he going to do, you ask? He is going to walk through the Veil. He was sure when Hermione found out what he was going to do, she would beat him to death and save him the trouble of walking through the Veil.

He had made necessary changes to the Veil runes and was 50% sure it would work. He is offering himself as a test subject and not telling anyone about it because he does not want anyone else to die of this long sort. If it works well, he can always come back and take them, but if it does not work, at least they would be safe for some time.

He had multiple charmed luggage, which contained numerous plants and animals, and all the house elves who worked in Hogwarts. Why were they with him, you ask? Well, the short answer is that they require symbiotic relations to survive. In this relation, the wizard agrees to give a small percentage of his magic, less than one, to the elve, and the elf agrees to serve the wizard. They were dying because they did not have Hogwart's magical energy to siphon, and the magical community could not take them in. He had bonded with as many house elves as he could. They would have died if he had not acted. It was decided that the elves would come with him because as soon as he crossed the Veil, their magical link would be broken with him, irrespective of whether he lived or died. It would be a slow and painful death. So, the house elves decided that they would like to pass quickly and pain-free if this did not work instead of a long and painful death. He tried to dissuade them of this idea, but they were unmoved. So he prayed that this plan worked or everyone he knew would die.

As he mentally prepared to walk through the Veil, something landed on his shoulders. He turned and nudged Hedwig.

"Are you sure, girl, you want to come with me? You can stay with Hermione until I am back?" Harry said

Hedwig just looked at him and swatted him with her wings on the back of his head as if to say how can he think such a thing? She will go with him, and that's final. Okay, girl, I understand he said and opened the trunk so she could go inside. After locking it and shrinking it, he secured all of the luggage to him, took a big breath, and ran toward the Veil.

As soon as he passed the surface of the Veil, he felt pain 20 times worse than the cruciatus curse. It seemed to last infinitely, but he soon came out on the other side, sprawled on the floor, magically drained and with pain all over his body but alive.

He did not even get to celebrate that he was alive when his magic warned him that he had to hostiles around him. With great difficulty, he looked up and found 7 to 10 people surrounding him. They were dressed in strange clothes and pointing staff at him. They spoke in unfamiliar languages. When he saw the staff tip of the team begin glowing, he raised his arm to conjure up a shield. A weak shield appeared around him. The people around him reacted in surprise and started firing energy bolts, which ran down on his shield. If he had been at his full strength, he could have kept the shield up for a long time, but after what Harry had gone through, he could only hold it up for a few hits. After which his shield collapsed, and two to three bolts hit him before he collapsed, drained

Seeing his collapse, the people stopped firing, and a voice said to bring him closer. He was picked up, carried towards the voice, and dumped in front of someone. With the last of his strength, he looked up and saw a person standing before him. He was dressed in old Egyptian clothes as Harry had seen pharaohs dressed in all Egyptian movies. The person looked at Harry as you would look at clothes at the store before buying. He must have liked what he saw because the person replied.

Yes, this is a good host and ordered the guards to prepare him. Harry was picked up and forced into a kneeling position, and his mouth was forced open. He would not like to remember what happened after it, but a snake-like creature came out of the person's mouth and went into his.

He soon felt a severe headache, which he did not think possible with his body condition...

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