Group H is normal in Group G, Group K is normal in G, K not necessarily normal in G

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Currently I am trying to understand the concept of groups, subgroups and normal groups. As each of the these definitions are clear to me, I can't verify the statement given in the Title:

I already came across a sketch for verification. However I still have troubles writing everything down without error.

Thus far I got: http://groupprops.subwiki.org/wiki/Normality_is_not_transitive#List_of_counterexamples_of_small_order

I pick G as my D8 group, listed here: http://groupprops.subwiki.org/wiki/Dihedral_group:D8

Then I pick my Klein Four group H: {1,a,b,c}

And take a normal subset K = {1,a} of H

I think one has to care that all elements of the sets are named correctly as the referenced sides use different notations, but that shouldn't make a problem.

I can verify: K is normal in H.

However I can't verify: H is normal in G. K is not normal in G.

I would be very happy, if someone could help me nailing this issue as this would probably help quite a lot understanding the basics of Algebra.

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Hint: A subgroup of index $2$ is always normal (this is typically "exercise 1" in textbooks introducing the concept).

For $K\not\lhd G$ it suffices to find $x\in G$ with $xax^{-1}\ne a$.