Harry stared at the disheveled dirty girl in front of him. Sirius Black had tagged along for fun but now he was quaking with rage. "Harry!" He yelled, "this filthy thing has obviously been sorely mistreated," he advanced threateningly upon the Grangers, his hand upon the dagger he kept under his robes.
The two muggles began quaking in innefectual fear and self loathing, only now, when it was too late, did they realize how horrible it was of them to have kept their daughter chained in their dank and foul smelling basement.
Harry didn't know what to do. On one hand he thought it was just awful the way that Kraug's parents had kept it hidden away in the basement all its life but on the other he would rather not have Sirius go back to jail over such an insignifent scuffle. Sirius had nearly fallen in with a bad lot in the big house and Harry worried that if he went back to the slammer he'd return one day with a nasty drug habbit or a swastica tattoo.
Harry stepped between them and adressed the filthy wretch, "Would you like to know magic?" Harry asked, speaking to Kraug in a way that one would with a rabid, feral wolf.
Kraug didn't know what to make of two wizards, she instinctively took a step back when Harry approached but at the word 'magic' she began jumping up and down excitedly, Kraug had always dreamed of someday being able to do magic. "Kraug go with Harry Potter! Kraug do magic!"
Mrs Granger began weeping in earnest, "please, don't kill me, just take her and go!"
"There'll be no need for that," said Sirius, licking his lips and slipping his crystal dagger back into its sheath, "come on then children, you don't want to be late for the train!" Harry took Kraug by the hand and the three magical friends skipped down the road on their way to the train station, their dark adventure already far behind them in their minds. They were bouyed up by joy and longing for the magical fun that awaited them.
At King's Cross Station.
Harry and Sirius waited on the platform anxiously, the train was late. Kraug hadn't noticed because she'd never seen a train before and had no idea how to tell if one was late, early, or not coming at all. She spied a porky young wizard about with his arms stuffed with chocolates and cakes. A low growl rumbled in her chest. "Kraug hungry! Kraug eat!" She ran upon Neville Longbottom and knocked him to the ground with savage force.
Neville began wailing, "oh! Oh help this horrible girl is going to take my chocolates!"
Harry and Sirius rushed to the scene. Sirius grabbed Kraug by her lank, filthy, hair and pulled her off the startled, quivering boy. "No Kraug! We don't take people's chocolates! That's a bad Kraug! Bad!" Neville was still on the ground, crying at their feet and clutching his candies and cakes to his ample bossum. Harry helped him to stand and the two bashfully hugged then turned upon Kraug with their hands on their hips. Harry was prepared to really let loose on Kraug and give it a piece of his mind, but Kraug seemed so desperate that his anger dissipated like mist in the wind.
"Say Neville," Harry said, "How about I can maybe have on of them chocolates for my pal Kraug here, huh? That way, everyone's happy!" Neville was never much of a sore loser so he gave Harry two chocolate bars and went along his way. Harry waved the delicious treat above Kraug's head, she followed it with her ravenous, starving eyes, "If you promise not to pounce on anyone else I'll give you this here chocolate, okay?"
Kraug slapped the train station floor with her hands and nodded her head back and forth, "Kraug good! Kraug want chocolate!"
Harry tossed the bar into Kraug's reaching hands, "what are we going to do with you?" He sighed, more to himself than anyone else. But then he noticed something, Kraug had finally got what she wanted but seemed to have no idea how to go about enjoying the sweet treat she had received. She tugged at the wrapper inefectually with her teeth and grunted in frustration.
Harry began to tremble with rage. "Sirius! Those evil muggles never even taught Kraug how to eat! They probably never even fed her once!"
Sirius wiped a tear from his obsidian eyes and knelt down next to the unkempt little girl. She nearly bit his fingers off when he snatched the bar away but grew still and amazed as she watched him unwrap it. "Kraug?" She asked, turning her head to the side. Sirius gave the unwrapped chocolate bar back to Kraug, who held it and too tight and it fell apart. "Kraug!" She yelled in mournfull anger as the pieces scattered about the floor.
"Oh dear," said Harry. He bent down to pick up the pieces, locked eyes with Sirius, who nodded, then began to put them one by one into her mouth. "This is eating, Kraug, this is how we eat things, okay? Understand, Kraug?" Sirius placed one hand on Kraugs chin and worked it up and down until she had figured out how to chew on her own. She ate the rest of the candy and even the other one with tears of joy in her rheumy eyes.
"Well, glad that's finally over," Harry said, trying to sound casual. He didn't want his rougish uncle to know that when Kraug's face had lit up at her first taste of chocolate he had begun to feel a strange tugging in his chest. He didn't take his eyes off of Kraug the whole way to Hogwarts...