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

[Anita Hillin]

No: HPFGUIDX 101465



Lady Macbeth <LadyMacbeth at unlimited-mail.com> wrote:
Siriusly Snapey Susan:
Yes, PLEASE, will people weigh in on this one??  It's never made
sense to me either.  

Lady Macbeth:

Because Sirius is a nutter?  


akh:

That's always a possibility, ;-) but I read it as laughing at bitter irony.  I base this on the reaction of a friend of mine who was arrested (erroneously) for armed robbery.  When the Chicago police police nabbed him and told him he was under arrest, he laughed.  Not a good idea to laugh in the face of a Chicago cop...  Anyway, when I was looking shocked at his story, he explained that he was so struck by the sheer absurdity of getting arrested for a crime he would never commit in a million years that he could only laugh.

We must remember, too, that Sirius does feel enormous guilt about the Potters' deaths, so he might feel some of the irony is that they DID get the right person in his mind, even though he's being arrested for the wrong crime.  

akh, who's never been arrested and THINKS she wouldn't laugh if she were....


		
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