"Are you alright?" The woman asked, noticing his expression.
"Yeah, sorry, just a headache. Follow me." Harry turned and began walking. 'What the hell, Venom?' He mentally asked.
'Don't help her!'
'Oh for Merlin's sake,' Harry mentally groaned. 'I'll find some damn food for you, okay? It'll take me about a minute to get her to the bank, then we can try out some new food and…'
'That's not what I meant!' Venom cut him off. 'Her emotions feel all wrong!'
'What? Her emotions?'
'I can detect emotions and her emotions are telling me that the best thing to do is let me eat her head before she hurt us!'
'You're not eating her or anyone else!' Was the first thought that came into Harry's head, it was only a second later before he registered the rest. 'Wait, what do you mean that she'll hurt us?' A second later Harry got his answer when he suddenly felt something poke him in his back, causing him to stop. He felt a body move behind him, stopping at only the barest distance needed to prevent it from touching him.
"Stay very still," He heard the woman he was helping whisper, her voice was suddenly a lot more menacing and far less friendly. "there's an alley to our right. Slowly walk into it, don't draw attention. If you try anything then I'll turn your spine into dust and escape before anyone can even call for help. Now, move." She ordered, pushing the tip of her wand deeper into his back, causing him to wince slightly.
'Well, if I die here then at least Voldemort won't get the satisfaction.' Harry thought as he obeyed the witch, reluctantly walking into the alley with her following behind him.
'You are not going to die,' Venom told him. 'we must simply wait until we're far enough away.'
'Far enough away from what?'
'Witnesses.' Venom's voice purred in his head, causing Harry's eyes to widen slightly at the obvious anticipation he could hear.
'Venom, you're not going to kill them!'
'Why not?' Venom asked, sounding genuinely curious.
'It isn't right!' Harry protested.
'Neither is letting this woman stay healthy enough to attack other people, it would be just the same as you stopping Quirrell and the basilisk.'
'That was different,' Harry argued. 'what happened to Quirrell was an accident and I had no choice with the basilisk.'
'Perhaps, but think about it this way, would you rather know for sure that this woman wouldn't hurt anyone ever again or risk her escaping justice as Lucius Malfoy did? Because calling him innocent is the same as calling Voldemort kind.'
Harry wasn't able to respond as a moment later his attention was brought back to the present when he found himself at the end of an alleyway, surrounded by the witch and a trio of wizards that had their wands pointed at him.
"The kid's a bit small, isn't he?" One of the men asked.
"Hardly matters," Another man replied. "he's sellable."
"Sellable?" Harry dumbly repeated before glancing around. Behind him was a wall, there was a building on his left and right side. In front of him, just after the four kidnappers, was a long stretch of an alley. There was no sign of anyone else nearby and he doubted that he would even be able to scream before they silenced and gagged him.
"Yep," The third man grinned. "there's quite a market for it." He raised his wand, the tip of it glowing. Harry instinctively took a step back but stopped when he felt something moving up his arm. His right arm raised itself without Harry even wanting it to, Harry watched as a black goo covered his hand and wrist, a goo that he could feel all the way up to his elbow. A black tendril shot out from his hand and tackled the man, slamming into him and sending him crashing into the wall behind him. The tendril released him and allowed him to slide bonelessly to the ground, the tendril then changed targets and grabbed the first of the men by the neck before smashing him into the other man, hard, taking them out of the fight.
"What the fuck?!" The witch cursed before firing a cutting curse right at Harry's neck. Harry's eyes widened in fear, thankfully he was saved when the tendril retracted and the goo disappeared from his right arm and appeared on his left, covering it from elbow to fingertips. The goo extended out of his hand and formed a human-sized shield which took the curse for him.
"What is that?!" Harry blurted out from behind the shield.
'Not what, who.' Venom corrected as the witch continued to fire spell after spell at them.
"This black stuff is you?!" Harry asked, forgetting to speak in his head.
'Part of me, here's the rest.' Venom had barely let Harry hear those words before Harry transformed.
Harry ended up being covered from head to toe in black goo, once he was fully covered his body grew. He grew taller, his muscles got bigger, going well past regular bodybuilder sizes. By the time he had stopped growing, he stood over seven feet tall with massive muscles beyond anything that Harry felt would be possible to achieve. His fingertips and toe sharpened, his mouth stretched from ear to ear, giving him a permanent grin. His teeth were long, pointy and snowy white and matched perfectly with the long tongue that was sticking out of his mouth. The only other bits of him that weren't black were the two white and teardrop-shaped eyes.
"W… what are you?" The witch gasped fearfully.
"We… are Venom." The creature said with a disturbing grin before it opened its jaw so wide that a snake would be impressed, revealing a set of horrifying teeth. The witch let out a terrified scream before firing another curse at Venom. With a speed that didn't match his size, Venom dodged it and leapt forwards, one hand grabbing the witch's wand hand. A crunching sound was barely heard before the woman's screams of pain filled up the alley. Venom purred as he shook the woman's broken hand, allowing her wand to drop harmlessly to the floor, his long tongue reached forwards and the tip touched the woman's forehead while she protested in pain, disgust and no small amount of fear. "Hmm," Venom pulled his tongue away and stared at her. "eyes, lungs, pancreas, so many snacks but so little time." Venom cooed, he was sure that even in this alley the woman's screams would have attracted attention.
"Leave me alone!" The woman cried before pulling out a knife and jamming it in Venom's shoulder, unfortunately for her, it might as well have been a toothpick given how effective it was.
"That tickles." Venom chuckled as the woman let go of the knife, her eyes widening in horror as the knife sunk into Venom's body, disappearing from view. "That was the sort of thing a brainless idiot would do, and if you're not using your brain, I'll have it."
'No! No eating heads!' Harry's voice echoed in Venom's head
"Fine." Venom growled before his mouth snapped open and bit down on the hand that the woman had used to stab him. The woman shrieked in pain as Venom dropped her, leaving her alive but with one less hand. Venom turned and leapt upwards.