[HPforGrownups] Re: "Blew apart the street" segue into proofs of Sirius's innocence

[Catherine Keegan]

No: HPFGUIDX 29231


>At 06:10 AM 11/13/01 -0800, Iwrote:
>he was standing laughing in the >carnage.  Must be him.  Let's get him out 
>of here and let's get over >it.  There.  All neat and tidy.

>At 01:05 PM 11/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I've always wondered why he just stood there laughing. Why didn't he
>protest when they took him away? I seem to have the impression that he just
>let himself take the fall without a fight, which just seems too strange.
>Was he just shocked about the Potters' death and his perceived role in it?

Shock manifests itself in a variety of ways.  Laughter at 
funerals.  Uncontrollable shaking.  Silence.  I think Sirius' shock was 
shown by the laughter.  Everything must have hit at once.  His friends' 
deaths.  Peter's horrid deed.  Being set up.  Thinking Lupin had betrayed 
J&L.  Just too much all at once.  Probably felt he deserved getting 
captured since he was the one who was still alive.  I'm amazed he didn't go 
completely mad from perceived guilt and being stuck in the soul-sucking 
prison.

Catherine in rainy California