Not Slytherin, eh?

A Dark AU where the trio is sorted into SlytherinHermione, who wants to use knowledge to change the world.Ron, who wants to finally be free of his family's shadow.Harry, who wants to be great, to be admired, to be free.

This is my take on the prompt below. I'm not currently sure what this will turn into, but I have yet to read a fic that matches my take on this, so thought I'd write my own. Notes and suggestions are encouraged.A large chunk of this is pulled directly from the source material - especially for the first chapters - to fit the AU into canon where still applicable.Chapter one begins part way through Chapter 7 "The Sorting Hat" in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone.---------------------------------------------So: dark au where the trio is sorted into SlytherinHermione, who wants to use knowledge to change the worldRon, who wants to finally be free of his family's shadowHarry, who wants to be great, to be admired, to be freeThe teachers adore quick, clever Granger, but Severus worries when he sees the way she eyes the restricted section, how her mind is filled with deadly recipes and the ways to use themThe purebloods learn not to badmouth the halfbloods, not to bully the muggleborns, because Hermione knows forbidden magic, Hermione knows the untraceable poisons and the painful curses-and Hermione knows how to avoid being caughtNo one outside of Slytherin pays attention to Ronald Weasley, so quiet compared to his brothers, and that's a mistakeRon casts his first dark spell and the power takes his breath away, Ron sinks into the comfort of blood rituals and makes outlawed sacrifices to forgotten godsRon wonders how his family could abandon this happiness in favor of a flickering lightHarry, the chosen one, the special one, the abandoned oneHarry looks at the light, looks at the people that did nothing for him, and dives into the darkLockhart dies drinking poison, Snape finds the trio huddled around Peter's body, the aurors that find Umbridge's remains vomit, and the Wizarding World doesn't noticeVoldemort rises and does not face an old man and a group of do goodersVoldemort rises and faces a witch with a brilliant mind and no taste for mercy, a wizard that delights in bloodshed and manipulates people like he moves chess pieces, and the broken, bloody boy that's won their loyaltyVoldemort falls---Newmidnightmayor---