[HPforGrownups] An introduction, Sirius Black, the four houses

[Brittney Heck]

No: HPFGUIDX 59656



Melanie Bond <princessmelabela at yahoo.com> wrote:
<<This is an excerpt taken from Fantastic Posts and Where to find them

When he is arrested, he is allegedly laughing. At least, that's what Fudge and Stan Shunpike say. Sirius doesn't say anything about this in the Shack (and when I asked him about it, he gave me That Look again).

I have often wondered why Sirius would laugh about something like that. I remember when I first read POA and found out that Sirius was in fact good and did not murder all those people or betray James and Lily I immediatly called my best friend, Kathy explain my astonishment about this. The first thing that came out of my mouth was "But why was he sitting there lying as he sat there in front of all those dead people?" Kathy responded by telling me that maybe for a short time Sirius really did go psycho and unstable. She said if all that had happened to you in one night how would you react? The truth is I still do not know the answer to that question....I've never seen my best friend get killed, my god son taken away, and one of my friends murder 13 people and then blame me more it..so truth bet told I cannot tell you how I would act. However, this isn't about me it's about Sirius..and to be honest, I hadn't really about why Sirius laughed again until I found myself reading a except about it on the website. >>

I think that the reason Sirius laughed was at the absurdity of the whole situation.  Haven't you ever heard the phrase that if you laugh so that you don't cry?  I think that laughing was the only way he could cope.  I mean, here Sirius is, going in to avenge his friends and thinking this should be an easy victory and he manages to go from what he perceives as being almost the hero for avenging James and Lily to being accused of murdering 13 people AND betraying the very people he had gone to avenge AND thrown into Azkaban for life.  Hell, I would have laughed too.  Talk about a shocker there.
 
I just think that he had no other choice then to look at his plight and just laugh, because what else was there to do.
 
Brittney



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