A week later, I returned to the school after Christmas vacation ended. The first thing I did after returning was to survey my dorm room and my housemates. Most of the Slytherin house kids belonged to the family of Death eaters and have declared for Voldemort, so they were bunking their school or those who came were either planning to join Death eaters or have already formed junior death eater cliques.
This was my fifth year going forward, in 1977 and since I kept myself limited to my experiments, I was mostly isolated in the campus. But this year, all those things have to change as I have to start weaving my web which needs to encompass the whole wizarding world so by the time Dumbledore and Voldemort are finished, I must be the only one remaining to control both the pureblood fanatics and the light wizards.
As for grey faction, no such idiocy existed by the time war was at its peak. Either you declared for Voldemort or went against him, indecision won't be helpful against the lack of patience of the dark wizards. And if you went against Voldemort and stayed in Britain then you knew that Voldemort has only one person to fear, Albus Dumbledore. So, you become a member of light wizards or as they like to call themselves Order of Phoenix. Ether way, either you belonged to Dumbledore's Order of Phoenix or Voldemort's Death Eaters.
Frankly both wizards were good at what they did particularly Voldemort, genius even as he was touching the ceiling of an beginner rank warlock at such a young age. Dumbledore himself was only a peak intermediate warlock, quite a distance away from Voldemort but as Dumbledore's progress was stagnating at his age and he was involving himself more in plots, conspiracies and power struggles, he was stuck at the same place where he was for nearly decades after taking over the mantle from previous headmaster Dippet.
While I was in my fifth year, the people of note currently in Hogwarts were Crouch junior, Snape himself in seventh year, James Potter and Black brothers - Sirius and Regulus Black, Alice Penz who will likely marry Frank Longbottom, Lily Potter, and Bill Weasley who has yet to join Hogwarts. There were some other minor characters but not of much use to me.
First, I decided to begin with Snape. While I was on vacation I have requested my manager-cum-guard Dazak to collect information about Eileen Prince, citing the reason as Severus being a friend. The overall report was surprising to say the least as the witch was currently wandless as her husband Tobias Snape has reportedly snapped it sometimes in the past. Her current condition was pathetic to say the least. Supposedly, she was wallowing in misery, poverty and confusion as her muggle husband was now deciding her fate. She was poor enough to not achieve anything by herself and even if she bought a wand what use will that thing be in face of her husband's order of not using magic in his house. I have my men meet her by chance and offered her a job as I wanted to bind Snape to me. Snape was too talented for him to die as Dumbledore's pawn and it was not like I was going to interfere in events. Nope, it was more like I was going to find myself an operator or commander when I retired from Hogwarts in future but that was a distant plan. I cornered Snape while he was entering the dungeon. In Slytherin, hierarchy and blood status was valued but since my blood status was shown in the outside world as a simple pure blood family, I will have to go by it.
"Severus, a moment of your time."
For a moment Severus Snape was confused as he knew the boy who was calling him but he wasn't clear about the reason. As far as he remembered, O'Shea Wyllt was rarely involved with anything. The boy was an anomaly in Slytherin as he was likely more suitable for Ravenclaw. He was always either closed in his dorm or busy with some experiments in an empty classroom, but overall anti-social.
"What happened Wyllt?"
" I would like to talk about a personal business, if you have time."
"About ?"
"Your mother." Snape was numb and then a rage filled question leaked out from him "How do you know about my mother, Wyllt?"
His mother always was a confusing piece of emotion as far as he was concerned. When he was a child his mother had taught him his initial magic . Even though his mother taught him curses, he remembered those study sessions as most precious moments of his life until he met Lily. But years of living in Snape household has turned her in a frustrated middle aged woman, who was prone to different magical maladies as is wont to wizards who keep their magic bottled up. It was expected as she wasn't the most gifted witch so her life was more or less dependent around his violent and ill-natured father. Nowadays, she kept to herself smoking while he himself drifted deeper in Voldemort's inner circle as his magical talent bloomed.
" Ah senior, don't think my line of answers to be rude. As you know my family is into business so they were searching a manager for one of our warehouses. One of the people which was shortlisted turned out to be Eileen Prince. On her background check, she turned out to be your mother. My family asked my opinion on this issue, as you are my schoolmate and so here I am."
"When did she applied for job? I have no such knowledge?"
"Her name was suggested by an old classmate of hers who is working for us, goes by the name Amira Kovacs. Originally she was not considered but as she was your mother and you were currently my senior, I was asked for an opinion."
"What is this job about?"
"It is usually related to logistics supply of rare potion ingredients. The pay is good, around eighty galleons a month but the job is in Scottish hills. Its your choice so take our time but I have to send a reply to my family before this month ends." Snape hesitated but still didn't refused but rather told O'shea that he will reply later. As for Amira, she was actually a member of side branch and also classmate of Eileen but two have never talked, so chances of Eileen identifying her was minimal but it can be chalked up to her poor health and memory.
This was my fifth year going forward, in 1977 and since I kept myself limited to my experiments, I was mostly isolated in the campus. But this year, all those things have to change as I have to start weaving my web which needs to encompass the whole wizarding world so by the time Dumbledore and Voldemort are finished, I must be the only one remaining to control both the pureblood fanatics and the light wizards.
As for grey faction, no such idiocy existed by the time war was at its peak. Either you declared for Voldemort or went against him, indecision won't be helpful against the lack of patience of the dark wizards. And if you went against Voldemort and stayed in Britain then you knew that Voldemort has only one person to fear, Albus Dumbledore. So, you become a member of light wizards or as they like to call themselves Order of Phoenix. Ether way, either you belonged to Dumbledore's Order of Phoenix or Voldemort's Death Eaters.
Frankly both wizards were good at what they did particularly Voldemort, genius even as he was touching the ceiling of an beginner rank warlock at such a young age. Dumbledore himself was only a peak intermediate warlock, quite a distance away from Voldemort but as Dumbledore's progress was stagnating at his age and he was involving himself more in plots, conspiracies and power struggles, he was stuck at the same place where he was for nearly decades after taking over the mantle from previous headmaster Dippet.
While I was in my fifth year, the people of note currently in Hogwarts were Crouch junior, Snape himself in seventh year, James Potter and Black brothers - Sirius and Regulus Black, Alice Penz who will likely marry Frank Longbottom, Lily Potter, and Bill Weasley who has yet to join Hogwarts. There were some other minor characters but not of much use to me.
First, I decided to begin with Snape. While I was on vacation I have requested my manager-cum-guard Dazak to collect information about Eileen Prince, citing the reason as Severus being a friend. The overall report was surprising to say the least as the witch was currently wandless as her husband Tobias Snape has reportedly snapped it sometimes in the past. Her current condition was pathetic to say the least. Supposedly, she was wallowing in misery, poverty and confusion as her muggle husband was now deciding her fate. She was poor enough to not achieve anything by herself and even if she bought a wand what use will that thing be in face of her husband's order of not using magic in his house. I have my men meet her by chance and offered her a job as I wanted to bind Snape to me. Snape was too talented for him to die as Dumbledore's pawn and it was not like I was going to interfere in events. Nope, it was more like I was going to find myself an operator or commander when I retired from Hogwarts in future but that was a distant plan. I cornered Snape while he was entering the dungeon. In Slytherin, hierarchy and blood status was valued but since my blood status was shown in the outside world as a simple pure blood family, I will have to go by it.
"Severus, a moment of your time."
For a moment Severus Snape was confused as he knew the boy who was calling him but he wasn't clear about the reason. As far as he remembered, O'Shea Wyllt was rarely involved with anything. The boy was an anomaly in Slytherin as he was likely more suitable for Ravenclaw. He was always either closed in his dorm or busy with some experiments in an empty classroom, but overall anti-social.
"What happened Wyllt?"
" I would like to talk about a personal business, if you have time."
"About ?"
"Your mother." Snape was numb and then a rage filled question leaked out from him "How do you know about my mother, Wyllt?"
His mother always was a confusing piece of emotion as far as he was concerned. When he was a child his mother had taught him his initial magic . Even though his mother taught him curses, he remembered those study sessions as most precious moments of his life until he met Lily. But years of living in Snape household has turned her in a frustrated middle aged woman, who was prone to different magical maladies as is wont to wizards who keep their magic bottled up. It was expected as she wasn't the most gifted witch so her life was more or less dependent around his violent and ill-natured father. Nowadays, she kept to herself smoking while he himself drifted deeper in Voldemort's inner circle as his magical talent bloomed.
" Ah senior, don't think my line of answers to be rude. As you know my family is into business so they were searching a manager for one of our warehouses. One of the people which was shortlisted turned out to be Eileen Prince. On her background check, she turned out to be your mother. My family asked my opinion on this issue, as you are my schoolmate and so here I am."
"When did she applied for job? I have no such knowledge?"
"Her name was suggested by an old classmate of hers who is working for us, goes by the name Amira Kovacs. Originally she was not considered but as she was your mother and you were currently my senior, I was asked for an opinion."
"What is this job about?"
"It is usually related to logistics supply of rare potion ingredients. The pay is good, around eighty galleons a month but the job is in Scottish hills. Its your choice so take our time but I have to send a reply to my family before this month ends." Snape hesitated but still didn't refused but rather told O'shea that he will reply later. As for Amira, she was actually a member of side branch and also classmate of Eileen but two have never talked, so chances of Eileen identifying her was minimal but it can be chalked up to her poor health and memory.