The reason for the hurried trial became obvious when Dumbledore was brought into the courtroom. Dumbledore was 114 years old now, and a Muggle; and those few 114-year-old Muggles who still were alive had huge health problems. Sometime during the week after Dumbledore had been arrested, he had suffered a massive stroke; now in the courtroom, the left side of his body was paralysed and his voice was slurred.