After Harry left the wand shop with his wand, he headed towards Knockturn Alley. He went inside a pet shop called Magical Creatures. The shop had almost every kind of creature that one could imagine, from flying monkeys to miniature dragons. He felt something pulling him towards the back of the shop, so he followed it. He stopped at a shelf that was filled with all kinds of eggs. Examining all of them, Harry realized one of the pitch black eggs was emitting a soft glow. He put his hand on the egg and felt the egg magically bond to him.

"Oh, hello there. Did you find something you like?" A voice came out of nowhere. Harry turned around and found a man in his twenties wearing a green robe and with hair that refused to obey the laws of gravity. He assumed that the man was the shop owner.

"Yes," Harry took the egg in his hand and held it out for the shop owner to examine.

"Ah, a rare one indeed." The shop owner looked at Harry. "The egg that you are holding in your hand is a very rare black phoenix egg. I'm curious; how did you find it?"

"It called me."

"Hm…the black phoenix is known to only show itself to whomever it chose to be its owner, and will stay loyal to that owner until he dies. When the owner dies, it will die as well. Still, no one has found an egg in ages." He looked Harry up and down. "Well, I certainly did not expect you to be the one to find it, I must say I'm surprised. Anyway, I'll give you the phoenix egg for 100 galleons."

Harry handed the owner the correct amount of money.

"Is there anything else you would like?" the owner asked Harry as he put the money away. Harry walked around in the shop and stopped in front of a glass case that held all kinds of snakes. One beautiful snake with black and silver strips and emerald green eyes caught Harry's eye.

'Hello,' Harry said in Parseltongue. When Harry did research on his family, he found out that Lily Evans was not a muggle born. She was given away for adoption when she was younger; her ancestor was Salazar Slytherin himself. Since Slytherin's legacy was only passed to the first born male, Lily only inherited Slytherin's green eyes. Because Lily's grandparents were the heir of Hufflepuff, Harry was a direct descendant of Slytherin and Hufflepuff. The Potters have always been the descendents and heirs of Godric Gryffindor and James's mother was the heir of Revenclaw. Therefore, Harry was the heir of the four founders of Hogwarts.

'A human who speaks our tongue!' one of the snakes exclaimed. Several other snakes hissed in agreement.

'It has indeed been a long time since anyone has spoken with us. There have been only two other speakers before you,' the snake that caught his interest informed him, 'What do you want, speaker?'

'I am looking for a familiar; would you like to be mine?' Harry held out his hand to the snake that interested him.

'Yes, I would love to. It is a privilege to be a familiar to a speaker. I am getting tired of being in here.' the snake slithered his way up Harry's arm and wrapped his tail around Harry's neck.

'What is your name?' Harry asked his new familiar.

'My name is Salazar, Master.'

'I have not introduced myself, have I? My name is Harry Potter.' Harry handed more money over to the owner. "It's a pleasure doing business with you," said the shop owner.

"Same here." Harry walked out the shop with his egg in his sleeve, his other familiar around his neck, and apparated back to his room. After putting his newly bought school supplies in his trunk, he sat on his bed and began to pet Salazar.

'Hey Salazar, what kind of snake are you? I've read several books on snakes, and yet, I have never seen your kind,' Harry asked the snake.

'That is not surprising, for my kind is not described in any book. I am a vampire basilisk. There are only a few of us, and therefore, we hid ourselves from both the magical and muggle world.'

'Well, if you hid from humans, then how did you end up in that store?' Harry wondered.

'I was injured in a battle, so humans were able to catch me,' Salazar replied.

'Since you are a vampire basilisk, do you drink blood? And how come I'm still alive even though I'm looking into your eyes?'

'Yes, we do drink blood. Our kind does not have the same death stare as other basilisks do. Instead, we can paralyze a person with our stare if we wish to. Our kind also has an extremely deadly poison. Only we can produce an antidote for it by giving the victim a second bite. We eat normal snake food until we find a suitable familiar. Then, after we have bonded with the familiar, we can only drink blood from him. Also, our familiar will be immune against all other poisons, for our poison is the deadliest poison there is. May I bond with you now?'

After Harry gave his consent, Salazar sank his fangs into Harry's neck and drew blood from Harry. At the same time, Salazar gave some of his blood to Harry. Both their bodies gave off an eerie black glow. Salazar withdrew his fangs once he satisfied his hunger. He flicker his tongue across the bite wound and it disappeared.

'Your blood is delicious, Master.'

'Glad that you enjoyed my blood.'

This done, they both relaxed and slowly drifted off into their world of dreams.