Black vs. Pettigrew: Why was Black Laughing?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "frankielee242" <speedygonzo242 at h...> 
wrote:
> I think Black was laughing because he was temporarily insane. His
> entire world has just flipped upside down-- his best friends are 
dead
> because he talked them into using Voldemort's spy as thier secret
> keeper. Not only that, but without Peter, no one will believe that
> Sirius wasn't Voldemort's spy himself (as explained by Dumbledor in
> PoA). When Peter disappears into the sewer, Sirius loses any hope of
> proving he's not a DE or guilty of mass murder. And, there is 
NOTHING
> Sirius can do about it.
> 
> I'd be a gibbering idiot at that point, myself...

Not only that, but he's just been framed by the last person who was 
supposed to have the wit and power to do so.  The irony probably was 
a bit much for his unbalanced emotional state.
 
> Actually, I don't think Sirius was planning to kill Peter when they
> met in the street that day. Drag him back for Crouch Senior and the
> dementors to interrogate after beating the sh** out of him, yes.
> Murder on the spot, no. 
> 

I don't know, I have to disagree with you on that one.  Sirius 
doesn't seem to think very clearly when he's angry--and he had to 
have been VERY angry at that point.  I think he'd have been perfectly 
happy to off Peter right then and there.

~Christi