Not for the first time, Harry Potter woke with a start from another nightmare, this one obviously about his godfather Sirius Black, as he fell through the Veil, never to return again.

His friends had told him that is wasn't his fault but it didn't make the pain go away, with Sirius's death, Harry was robbed of the last bit of family he had left, well except for the Dursleys except they obviously didn't count, what with the way they treated Harry all his life.

"Why is that whenever I want try to find some happiness I always end being more miserable than I was before," Harry muttered under his breath as he tried to fall asleep again, not realizing that it was his birthday.

However just when he started to slumber a tiny meteor crash landed outside his window, making only enough noise to stir him slightly.

The meteorite was smoking dark after entering earth's atmosphere and then a crack appeared in it and out wiggled out some sort of moving black liquid substance.

Soo tired, must find host to sustain myself," thought the symbiote before it sensed Harry's emotions.

Attracted like a moth to the flame the symbiote started crawling up the wall leading to Harry's window and slithered underneath it. It could sense the intense emotions coming of Harry, a level of emotions which feed it greatly.

Hmm, a bit skinny though it can be easily remedied with some training though he does look like he could make a great warrior, ah what the heck I shall bond with him," the symbiote thought as it crept closer to Harry.

Rising up slightly, it crawled onto Harry's right hand and started enveloping the rest of his body, searching through all of Harry's memories as it did so.

It both shocked and disturbed the symbiote at how hard this humans life was. It had bonded with other hosts who also had hard lives but never did it happen at such a young age with so much hardship. It also puzzled the symbiote that the boy had not completely cracked under all the pain and pressure and set aside any thoughts the symbiote had that Harry was weak.

Looking at his more happier memories the symbiote found out the reason why Harry had not completely cracked yet. His friends. Friendship and loyalty were surprisingly important to this symbiote while almost all the rest of his kind were completely vicious and monstrous and denounced such things as hindrances.

However when the symbiote started looking at Harry's romantic memories the symbiote felt like throwing up, and then ripping this boy's body apart.

What on earth was this boy thinking, trying to pursue a romantic relationship with a girl just a few months after her boyfriend was killed! If it was up to the symbiote he would have comforted this girl the entire year and make her happy but not try to push her into a romantic relationship so she wouldn't feel uncomfortable and then the year after that he would then pursue her in a romantic relationship.

Though oddly enough the symbiote felt enough pity for this human to educate him in the ways of making a woman happy once he was made aware of his existence.

Sensing the boy beginning to awaken, the symbiote completely enveloped his body and started moving his body to another location.

When Harry Potter came to he found himself upside down in a completely black costume with what seemed to be two pupiless white eyes on his face and white patches on the front of his hands.

Also he was clutching what seemed to be a white strand of spider webbing which was attached to a roof above which kept him hanging.

"Wha... what in the name of merlin happened? Wasn't I in my bed at the Dursley's and how did I get in the middle of the city in a costume I never seen before?" said Harry as he desperately struggled to hold onto the webbing to keep from falling.

"I brought you here," said the symbiote.

Harry was startled by the symbiote's voice in his head and as a result let go of the web, sending him falling to the ground.

Harry let out a wild yell as he continued to fall towards and the ground and to prevent him from falling all the way down, the symbiote took control of Harry's left arm and aimed it towards another building.

A strand of white webbing burst from from the white patch on his left hand which attached itself to a building which sent Harry swinging towards it.

Harry let out another yell and send out another webline towards another building and with a huge boost in momentum, jumped right over it and landed on a rooftop.

"How did that I just do that? And where did that voice come from?" asked Harry confused at what just happened.

"It was me, the costume your wearing," the symbiote said with a twinge of annoyance.

Harry stepped looking at his reflection in a building and said,"Your the one who's talking to me? How'd you get on me and what are you?"

"I'm a symbiote, a living organism that survives by bonding with another, in this case you," explained the symbiote.

"What! What do you mean bond with me?" Harry asked feeling repulsed at the idea of something living inside of him.

"I enveloped myself around your entire body in order to stay attached to you though I would detest living inside of you, you can't be very attractive from the inside of your body can you?" said the symbiote.

"But I can't stay looking like this forever and besides what do I get from having you live inside me?" demanded Harry.

To answer his question, Harry's costume entire costume shape shifted into some casual clothes which left Harry speechless.

"What do you get from having me inside of you, oh quite a lot actually. I can mimic clothing so you'll never have to waste time getting dressed ever again, make all of your physical abilities far superior, protect your mind from being attacked which means you definitely won't have to worry about Voldemort taking over your mind any time soon, and best of all give you super powers," said the symbiote.

"Super powers," asked Harry feeling a little skeptical.

"Of course, didn't you just swing across a couple of buildings just a few minutes ago," asked the symbiote.

Harry thought about that for a moment and asked,"What did you mean by making all my physical abilities far superior?"

"I can make your muscles a million times more stronger which means you have incredible strength and can lift extremely large and heavy objects like they barely weighed anything. I can also make you incredibly durable and vastly increase your stamina which basically means that you could probably be run over by a truck, get hit by a Hungarian Horntail, and get stepped on by Grawp and say I barely felt that."

Harry was silent after hearing how powerful the symbiote could make him and asked,"Do you have a name?"

The symbiote felt flattered and said,"My kind generally do not give themselves individual names, but on occasion I like to refer to my host and I as one entity called...Venom."

"Venom huh, well that's definitely is going strike fear into the hearts of Death Eaters," said Harry smiling a bit.

Venom was elated and said,"So you'll let me stay with you?"

"Yeah, it might be a little bit creepy hearing your voice in my head but I think I can grow used to it, besides I need all the help I can get, with Voldemort back and all."

"Lord Voldemort huh? Why'd he call himself that? If you ask me he should be called Lord Baldymort," joked Venom.

Harry lip twitched and he burst out laughing, the first time in quite a while.

Venom with permission from Harry controlled his body to webswing all the way back to Privet Drive due to Harry not knowing how to swing very well.

Although his body was controlled through the entire ride, Harry had almost as much fun than he did when he rode on his Firebolt. Of course web swinging was limited to what his web lines could anchor to while his broomstick could take him anywhere he found it to be an interesting experience.

Silently sneaking back in his room, Harry had Venom morph his cloths into ones that were more comfortable for sleeping as Harry slowly started drifting back into slumber, this time without fear of nightmares due to Venom who would prevent him from receiving any.

While Harry slept, Venom looked through his memories and knowledge of Voldemort to discover his strengths and weaknesses in order to destroy him.

Luckily for Harry, Venom's symbiotic body could make himself greatly impervious to curses and spells while at the same time amplify Harry's magical abilities greatly, though the Unforgivable Curses worried Venom slightly.

Both he and Harry could fight off the Imperius Curse with no problem but the Cruciatus Curse sounded nasty, plain and simple but hopefully his hide could reduce the pain to a minor annoyance. The Avada Kedavra Curse, mmm, that spell was deadly enough to even cause significant damage to even him, it would be best to avoid it at all costs.

Well unless Voldemort can magically create intense sonic vibrations in the air, we should be fine. Mused Venom who painfully remembered how agonizing the last time he was forced off his host when those infernal people used that sonic cannon on him.

Viewing his memories of this Cho girl once again, the symbiote resisted the urge to cringe in disgust, Harry's friend Hermione calling him tactless was a big understatement, this boy was so pathetic around women!

Venom could sense that Harry still had some feelings, though they now quite small for this girl but given how things went for them last year, Harry was unlikely to want to give their relationship another go unless Venom played matchmaker between them.

"Normally I wouldn't do something like this, but I think he'll thank me for this one day," Venom mused as he started causing a dream to form in Harry's mind, one extremely different from the one's he'd been having lately.

Venom struggled not to emit a laugh from watching Harry slowly starting to grin more and more widely as it would probably wake Harry up from a extremely nice dream filled him having passionate snogs and kisses and snuggling close to a certain Ravenclaw girl.

Before Venom could make this dream even more passionate, a tap on the window woke Harry from his dream.

"Darn, rotten luck! That owl better have something important," muttered Venom.

Harry groggily staggered up, his dream still vividly clear in his head. What the bloody hell was that all about?

Harry opened the window to reveal a rather large brown owl with two letters and some sort of long package attached to it's leg.

Harry took the letters and package from the owl which then flew off back to Hogwarts.

Opening the package first he found... the sword of Gryffindor.

Harry had a flabbergasted look on his face while Venom said,"Man, that's one kick ass looking sword."