This was when Harry told the other two people what Fudge, Umbridge and Lucius had done at this morning’s trial, and what Dumbledore had only pretended to do. Harry told how he was only a few seconds away from being Kissed; Sirius shivered involuntarily. Harry told about the pain that the magical bindings caused to his expanding magical core, how these bindings suddenly snapped—and how Harry then went on a killing spree. Harry told how he was acquitted, after previously being convicted and sentenced to death a half-hour before, by threatening to kill all the seat-holders who had voted to kill him.