A month and half had passed by. It was now August 30th. After the shopping and submitting the reply letter, Harry stayed in his room as usual. He mostly spent his time reading and sometimes practicing wandless magic, as he was not allowed to perform wand magic outside the school. He didn't want to be kicked out before he even attended the first class. He also didn't want to draw any unnecessary attention to him. Since he had stayed unnoticed all these times, he was not about to change anything.
Salazar lazed around in Harry's room, most of time on Harry's bed where he found a comfortable spot. He did venture outside a couple of times for fun, exploring the area in search for some little unfortunate animals, to entertain him. He did make sure to stay out of the sight of the wizards. After Harry got to know Salazar a bit more, he found Salazar's personality quite…interesting.
The black phoenix egg had been feeding from Harry magic ever since it had bonded with him. Harry could feel the pulsing from the egg indicating the life held within whenever he held the egg in his hand. However, it won't be hatching for quite some time.
It was early in the morning. Harry had a habit of waking up with the sun. He rarely slept in. After he got dressed, he ate the breakfast that the house elf had left out for him. When he was done with breakfast, he started getting ready for the day. He made sure he had packed everything that he wanted to take with him to Hogwarts and shrunk the trunk and put up his right sleeve. Grabbing the phoenix egg from the desk next to the bed, he placed it up his left sleeve.
'Let's go Salazar,' Harry, holding out his hand for Salazar to climb up.
Salazar made his way to his usual place on Harry's neck. Salazar wasn't fat by any means, but rather slender, so he looked like a black colored necklace with silver stripes to casual observers.
'Is it time for Hogwarts already?' Salazar hissed, 'It better be fun.'
Harry laughed, 'I do not know how much fun school can be for a snake. Let's go.'Harry apparated them to the train station. Walking through platform 9 ¾, he got on the Hogwarts Express. He claimed the last compartment on the train for himself, and, after placing a locking charm on the door of the compartment, settled down to read one of the books that he had pulled out from his trunk.
The ride was mostly uneventful. At one time he had heard a crash outside the door followed by footsteps and a girl's voice calling out, "Are you alright, Neville?" "I am ok," the boy who had fallen down said. This was shortly followed by the croaking of a toad. "There he is, catch him!" the boy yelled, "Trevor! Wait, come bac-" the boy's voice was cut off by a nasty smack as his head impacted rather violently with a door. "Watch out for the door…never mind" the girl called out, the footsteps then faded away. Discounting that one incident, and a few subsequent unsuccessful attempts on opening the door by various people, nothing else happened.