Laughing Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 34501

mrgrrrargh at a... wrote:
> I never was quite sure -- maybe I missed the explanation in the 
book -- why 
> Sirius was laughing hysterically after Peter blew up the street 
full of 
> Muggles and turned into a rat. Anyone know?

Sirius was having one of those days where *nothing* is going right, 
except in his case, we went to the extreme. Hmmm...don't understand? 
I'll use myself as an example & this really did happen to me in real 
life:

One Tuesday morning, I overslept by a whole 45 minutes. Needless to 
say, I was running around like a mad man. I then missed my bus & had 
to get my mom to bring me to school. When I got to school, I forgot 
my I.D. & had to get a temporary one. Then when I got to my 
ketboarding class, we had a pop quiz on something I really didn't 
understand & for math class, I forgot my homework in my room & got a 
Big, Fat Zero for both the quiz & my homework. Can't get any worse 
right? Wrong. Ok, girls know exactly what I mean when I say that time 
of the month rolled around, & I really wasn't prepared for it. So, 
here I am, walking around with a sweater around my waist all day 
long, miresable as ever. Then my friend Kasi reminded me about the 
bake sale on tomorrow. (I was prepared for that though.) Ok, at the 
end of the day, when it was finally time to go home, my locker got 
stuck. When it finally got unstuck, I missed my bus again. By then, I 
was too upset. But then my sister's friend Kori give me a ride home. 
I got home, finished my homework, & went in my kitchen to bake the 
chocolate chip cookies I was supposed to make. 'Ok, this is the one 
thing that is finally going right,' so I thought. My mom asked me to 
do something for her & I did, telling her to take the cookies out for 
me when the timer went off. Well, obviously she either forgot or 
didn't hear me, but when I got back, I saw smoke coming from the oven 
& rushed to take the cookies out. My perfect little cookies, now 
covered with fire estinguisher residew, were little bits of charcoal. 
I looked at them & suddenly it was so funny I started laughing & I 
couldn't stop myself. I started crying while laughing then I just 
broke down in tears. (talk about a mood swing.) Well I guess my mom 
felt bad because she sent me to bed & when I woke up the next 
morning, there was a new batch with a note from my mom telling me how 
she was sorry & hoped I had a better day today. (BTW, it was better.)

The reason why I brought this up was because, overall Sirius had a 
really horrible time with this. Let's review his day. (Well, it was 
more than a day but oh well.) First, Sirius managed to convince James 
to use Peter Pettigrew as the Secret Keeper instead of him, thinking 
maybe Voldemort(aaaaaahhhh!!!) would come after him instead. Then he 
goes to check on Peter & he's not there. Now he was getting worried. 
So he goes now James & Lily's house...and sees the house as rubble, 
finding his best friends dead in their own home. It finally reaches 
him to what Peter has done. He sets out to confront him. But dear 
Peter alreadys has a plan for him. He makes it seems as though Sirius 
told Voldemort where the Potters were & fakes his own death, killing 
12 muggles in the process. Now we have Sirius,(much like myself), in 
a situation he can't control any more. Everyone will now think he 
committed these murders & that he betrayed James & Lily. At this 
point, he kinda loses himself & he starts laughing in spite of the 
circumstances. Now enters Fudge, who sees him laughing. Well, that's 
my explanation. Hope you understand. Happy reading!
-Kyrstyne
(who, just having read over explantion, feels proud & is laughing at 
her own day)