Laughing Sirius

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 34372

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., 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?
> 
> -SpyGameFan
> 
I've wondered that myself, didn't find any answer in the books 
(though that's no guarantee there's not one there) and concluded on 
my own that Pettigrew must have put an Imperius curse on him.  After 
all, if you're going to frame someone, why not pull out all the stops 
and make him appear really heinous?  Though he didn't have much time 
to (i) blow up the street, (ii) make Sirius laugh, (iii) say "Sirius, 
how could you?", (iv) cut off his finger, and (v) transform and 
escape.  Pettigrew seemed kind of slow to pull of all that off at 
once, or to have plotted it all out in advance.

Debbie