This is a very alternate reality story. I warned you now. It contains the Harry Potter characters, but their nature is a bit different from the books.

I do not own the Harry Potter characters.

Description: Hermione Granger is sorted into Slytherin. Many things happen as she is growing up. Set in 7th year. Hermione/Draco.

Darkside

Prelude

"You cannot do this Tom!" Annelise screamed, clutching her baby in her arms.

"I can do whatever I please, Annelise. I will rise to be the Dark Lord, and she will be my heiress." He spat.

Tom crept closer to Annelise. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders and smelled her hair. He pulled the baby from her arms and touched his fingers to her arm. He muttered an incantation.

"What are you doing, Tom!?" Annelise screamed as she saw her baby's arm glow.

"I'm branding her." He said, and showed her the dark mark on the baby's arm. The mark faded. "It will appear again, when the time is right." Tom handed the baby back to Annelise. "Take care of her. She's my heir; anything you need, I will be here to provide for. Oh, and Annelise, she will know about her past, you will tell her."

Tom walked off.

At that moment, Annelise made a promise to herself, "I will never let my baby know the meaning of his evil, she will know that she is a witch, but she will not know that she is a dark witch."

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Two Years later.

Wedding bells sounded. Jonathan and Annelise Granger walked out of the church where they had been happily married just a few moments before.  Behind her, Annelise's sister pushed a baby in a carriage. Jonathan had adopted Annelise's baby to be his own. They changed her name from Ariana Tanith Renae Riddle to Hermione Ariana Granger. Annelise had told Jonathan everything about her dark past. He seemed okay with it. He agreed that the child should never know the evil of Tom's ways. Every trace of Tom was kept out of her life until her first year at Hogwarts when she met Harry Potter and he battled Voldemort. Her arm always felt tingly then.

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First Year at Hogwarts.

"Slytherin!" The Sorting Hat called as it sat on Pansy Parkinson's head. The Slytherin's clapped as their new housemate joined them.

Hermione Granger walked up to the hat and sat down. Professor McGonagall placed the sorting hat onto her head. The sorting hat pondered for a bit. "Gryffindor perhaps, you have a lot of courage I see. But, there is something I sense in you, so…"

"SLYTHERIN!" The hat called out. Hermione grinned and walked over to her new table.

She sat down next to the girl the hat had named before her, Pansy Parkinson. She smiled and waved. "Hi! I'm Hermione!" Hermione said.

"Hello, my name is Pansy." Pansy replied.

This was the start of a beautiful friendship.

Draco Malfoy stood in line, waiting to be called upon.

"Harry Potter." Professor McGonagall said.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Susan Bones" She called out again

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Draco Malfoy."

"SLYTHERIN!" Draco smirked and walked coolly over to his table. He sat down next to Crabbe and Goyle.

Pansy smiled and whispered to Hermione. "He is the cutest guy in Slytherin, don't you think?" Pansy blushed a bit.

"Of course." Hermione replied.

She felt weird; her arm was more tingly than usual. She had a weird feeling about this boy. Hermione's arm rarely tingled. Her mom always put off the subject when she tried to discuss it. Hermione had holed up in her room all summer with her books. Her long brownish hair perfectly matched her cappuccino eyes. She wasn't nearly as pretty as she would be later on. By seventh year, her hair was straighter and a bit redder. She was taller, but not by much, she only stood a petite 5'3. She was slender and had the greatest curves. What made her great though, was that she was the smartest and one of the prettiest girls in Hogwarts. At the end of her sixth year of Hogwarts, she had been chosen to be next year's head girl. Along with none other than Draco Malfoy, the sexiest man in school.

And so we begin, 7th year, first day of Hogwarts….