Why DID Sirius laugh? (was: Peter Pettigrew, questions)

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No: HPFGUIDX 101415

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> Phil Boswell wrote:
> > Still not certain why Sirius would have just sat down and laughed,
> > however ...
> 
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan:
> Yes, PLEASE, will people weigh in on this one??  It's never made 
> sense to me either.  Was it just that Sirius was laughing in an 
> ironic sort of, "I can't BELIEVE this is happening to me?" kind of 
> way?  It was always described as sort of maniacal, though....
> 
> It seems to me that the report of Sirius laughing after the blown-
up 
> street always weighed heavily against him, and even when we did 
> discover his innocence, it's not one of those things which 
instantly 
> made sense in light of the new facts.  Why WAS he laughing?



Alla: 

Personally I always read his laugh as kind of hysterical one. As if 
he could not believe the absurdity of what was happening and that is 
why he was laughing.