Sirius Laughing

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 113076

 Lissa:
>> > 
> > 1.) Sirius's mind just broke with grief at that point- he knew he 
> > was framed, he was done for, and James and Lily were dead (and 
for 
> > all he might guess at that point, Peter could be on his way to 
kill 
> > Remus as well).  He laughed because it was an impossible reaction 
> > to an impossible situation.
> > 2.) Relief- Absolute proof that Remus wasn't the traitor, and 
> > laughing at the sheer implausibility that little Peter had pulled 
> > this off.
> > 3.) (I wish I could claim credit for this, but I can't) Peter 
> > tossed a Cheering Charm at Sirius- an overdone Cheering Charm 
made 
> > Ron laugh like crazy in fourth year.  Nice, simple spell that 
gets 
> > Sirius laughing uncontrollably... and unable to protest his own 
> > innocence because he's laughing too hard to speak.

Nora replied:

> 4.  Mutation of numbah one--not merely grief, but intense self-
> loathing...bitter laughter filled with hatred at himself for 
> everything that he thinks he has been the cause of.  Weeping would 
be 
> the resort of the 'innocent'.
> 
> [Not to mention that there's an interesting literary parallel, not 
> that I think it has *anything* to do with the HP incident.  
Wagner's 
> Kundry, who laughed at Christ on his way to the Cross, is cursed to 
> live forever to seek Him again...and she cannot weep, she can only 
> laugh horrible mocking laughter, in both her pain and her sorrow.]

Marianne:

5.  Gross exaggeration of what happened at the time, which has grown 
into Wizard legend.  Maybe Sirius was not laughing all that madly. 
We've only heard about this from people like Fudge, who might have 
built up the story of the capture of Voldy's Pure Evil Right-Hand Man 
because it makes him, Fudge, look brave and daring.  Or, to give 
Fudge the benefit of the doubt, maybe Sirius did vent with a few 
howls of disbelief, grief, or whatever, and, through the passage of 
time, that has been enlarged into great gales of insane cackling.

Marianne