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 gangs.
This was my fifth year going forward, in 1978 after Christmas break. 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.
Frankly both wizards were good at what they did particularly Voldemort, genius even as he was touching the ceiling of an intermediate rank warlock at such a young age. Dumbledore himself was only a peak intermediate warlock, quite a little distance away from Voldemort but as Dumbledore's progress was stagnating at his age and he was involving himself more in plots, conspiracies and war against Voldemort, he was stuck at the same place where he was for nearly decades.
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 much of use to me.
First, 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 simple pure blood family, I will have to go by it.
"Senior, a moment of your time."
--Snape's POV--
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."
For a moment, Snape was numb and then rage filled confusion 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 Snape was concerned. When he was a child his mother had taught him magic initially but years of living in Tobias 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 centred around his violent and ill-natured father. Nowadays, she kept to herself smoking while he 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."