Laughing Sirius

[dicentra_spectabilis_alba]

No: HPFGUIDX 34392

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., ChibiAiChan at c... wrote:
> In a message dated 1/30/02 9:43:50 PM Pacific Standard Time,
djdwjt at a... 
> writes:
> 
> << > 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. >>
> 
> It could have been kind of like an ironic laugh too. Like as soon as he 
> dissappeared he more or less figured it out, ya know? ^^*
> 
> <3 Ai-Chan
> Look, I delurk!

We don't know for sure that Sirius was laughing at all.  We only have
the word of Cornelius Fudge, and I don't have much faith in his
version of the events.  For all we know, Sirius was sobbing into his
hands, or standing there nonplussed, or trying to revive a Muggle, or
whatever.

--Dicentra, who doesn't trust Fudge at all