Sirius copied Harry’s behaviour and did not argue with Molly; instead, he waited till Molly was silent, then acted as if she had not spoken: "Anyway, after Dumbledore made his demands, I laughed in his face. I said that the earliest I’d let him in my house is at 6 p.m tomorrow, and not one minute earlier. I also told Dumbledore that if Lucius’s fate had been up to him, Lucy would kill ten thousand people, then die of old age in his own bed; I vastly preferred Harry’s choices to the headmaster’s."