"To miss Alice Rose Aston, from Hogwarts university of witchcraft and wizardry" I read aloud, I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought for a moment that maybe it was fake, maybe someone thought it would be funny, after all I had heard all about it's fandom in the twenty first century.

  Hah I would have to do a memory dive didn't I?

  In the twenty fifth century in my last life after many advancements in Neuro-science a method was developed that if practiced from a young age could result in significantly improved memory and intelligence. This method was thought in all schools in the United Terran Federation, actually if you weren't thought this you could later sue your schools and all the higher ups to hell and back.

  I was one of the very rare cases that managed to obtain eidetic memory from this. I could remember everything from this world and the one before, or at least I had the option.

  You see, without doing the first recall I wouldn't be able to activate it, and I kinda didn't want to. Right now I didn't remember my family much, which meant I couldn't miss them, but if I do a recall then that would mean I would have to do a full dive and practically relive all of my two lives again.

  It's not actually as bad as it sounds, but it's not a very nice experience. Unfortunately I have to do it. Right now all I remembered of Hogwarts was that it was a school for special children, and that it was fictional. Honestly this life just appears more and more like a hallucination.

  So to get ready for my dive, I put the envelope back on Alice's bed, went to my own and lied down. There, while looking at the ceiling I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.

  I was born in February of the year 2733 CE, on what was once called the USA though by then it was renamed.

  As far as I know, or at least bothered to look up, near the mid twenty first century, the world went to shit.

  Russia’s relentless aggression against neighboring Slavic states, coupled with the European Union’s failure to uphold its defense pact, fractured Eastern Europe. In response, the abandoned nations forged a new alliance completely removing themselves from the EU.

  Meanwhile, the EU itself had already been entangled in the United States’ long-standing campaign to dominate the Middle East. After years of covert operations—later revealed to be U.S.-backed attempts to destabilize the region—a coalition of Middle Eastern nations finally unified, resisting foreign control over the Persian Gulf.

  On another front, artificial intelligence had begun to rot the core of civil infrastructure. Deepfake technology rendered video and photographic evidence obsolete, crippling judicial systems worldwide. But the damage didn’t stop there. In pursuit of profit, corporations recklessly deployed AI across industries, replacing skilled workers with algorithms that lacked nuance. Software development, in particular, suffered. The new generation of programmers—raised on shortcuts and automation—lacked the depth and rigor of their predecessors. The result: fragile systems, riddled with vulnerabilities.

  A Chinese cyber-terrorist group known as The White Lotus exploited these weaknesses, bringing the global banking system to its knees for nearly twenty-four hours. Simultaneously, a South American collective leaked over fifty gigabytes of classified documents—government secrets, corporate conspiracies, all of it bare for the world to see.

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  Coup d'états erupted across the globe. Russia was among the first to fall.

  Putin, sensing the end, chose chaos. In his final act, he attempted to trigger a nuclear strike—one last gambit to drag the world into war. Somehow, through either covert channels or loyal sympathizers, his command reached a deep-sea nuclear submarine, isolated from global communications and blind to the unfolding crisis.

  The crew received the highest-level directive: launch every warhead at major U.S. cities.

  No strategic targets. No military bases. Just maximum civilian casualties.

  the fate of the world hung on a single key that the commander inserted into the launch console. But when the moment came to turn it, he refused.

  I don't know what happened exactly afterwards, but the events somehow became public, whether it was the hacker groups or an insider leaking the information.

  The results however were known as one of the miracles in human history. Perhaps it was the people learning they came this close to an extinction event because of one crazy person, all the people in the world united. No more would they be controlled by greedy, crazy, or unfit people. It took several years but in the end the common people won, all governments in the world were dissolved, joining to create the United Earth Federation, later renamed United Terran Federation.

  Things went uphill from there, the entirety of the federation was constantly scrutinized by the public eye, the constitutional laws were recreated from a mixture of the most productive or with higher happiness rated countries and several new laws.

  One of the more impactful laws, was the limits for the ultimate growth of corporations.

  Now without limitless growth and too much money to spare, corporations couldn't buy promising startups and shelf them to destroy competition, this in turn created a larger pool of competitors forcing corporations to improve work environment and product quality to be able to remain in business.

  Another law that passed was that corporations with the sole purpose of making money, couldn't exist. Corporations had to have some sort of benefit for the public to be counted as such, so things like private equity also disappeared.

  A lot of things has happened since then until the twenty eighth century when I was born. Like the invention of ARK the global AI that now basically runs humanity in conjunction with the council of representatives.

  I was born in a farming family, as the third child. I was rather close with my family, that is until I decided I wanted to be an engineer.

  By this time humanity had already reached the edge of the solar system, the only thing stopping us from further exploration was the maximum speed at which we could travel, we were on the cusp of reaching the age of interstellar travel, and I was shunned from my family because I wanted to be part of that, instead of growing wheat.

  I was not only the first to complete my Neuro-plasticity training at the young age of five, I was also one of the very few ones in my generation to get eidetic memory from it. That's all to say, I was a genius, and I knew it and so I left my home at the age of seven to attend the Central University of Engineering or CUE that was situated on the moon.

  I still went back for holidays and such, but my relationship with my family was strained at best, except with my older sister.

  I studied and did research in that university for the rest of my life, which admittedly, wasn't that long.

  I died at the young age of twenty two, through a prototype FTL drive explosion.

  I can't believe it, I died, in a time when accidental deaths had all but been eradicated, in a lab explosion, like an IDIOT!. Thankfully the explosion took me out instantly, I wouldn't want to relive a painful death.

  Anyways, after all this all I figured out about Hogwarts was that it was from a fictional series called Harry Potter that was famous in the early twenty-first century. My older sister Elina was a fan of twenty-first century literature, and specially Harry Potter.

  She was one of the main people who took care of me when I was a baby, and that's how I know about the story, she would often put on the movies with me on her lap or on the couch beside her, I was too young to know what it was at the time but later as a result of that method I relived all those moment during my first dive.

  Now time for my new life, let's see if I can see my mother's face.