More Points to Ponder: The Prophecies

[mrnipha]

No: HPFGUIDX 75336

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> wrote:
> Kevin:
>  
> > Is it possible that in the year between Harry (and Neville's) 
> births and when LV killed 
> > the Potter's that The Longbottom's went mad and Neville was sent
to 
> his 
> > Grandmother's?  I can't recall if there is a specified timeline 
> with respect to that, 
> > but....
> 
> 
> 
> Crouch Jr and the Lestranges crucio'd the Longbottoms into insanity 
> after Voldemort attacked the Potters.  In GoF Dumbledore explains
to 
> Harry after Harry sees Crouch Jr in the Pensieve that they were 
> looking for Voldemort and thought the Longbottoms had information
on 
> his whereabouts.  
> 
> KathyK

The question remaining after GOF that I think is answered in OoTP is
*why* the Lestranges and Crouch Jr might think that the Longbottoms
would know the whereabouts of Voldemort.

We learn in OoTP that the DE's knew about the portion of the prophesy
that motivated Voldemort to attack Harry (The scene in the Prophesy
Room; further explanation by Dumbledore later).  As the prophesy
correctly predicted Harry's survival and the vanquishment of Voldemort
(Dumbledore uses the term Vanquish in describing the situation of his
decision to place Harry with the Dursley's), the Lestranges and Crouch
would have hoped that
1) the rest of the prophesy would fortell what happened to Voldemort,
and
2) Dumbledore would have told the prophesy to the parents of the two
boys born at the end of July who had thrice defied Voldemort (James
and Lily Potter were dead, but Frank and Alice Longbottom were not).

We know in retrospect that the prophesy said nothing about what would
happen to Voldemort after he had been vanquished and marked the one
(Harry), but the DE's didn't.

JMHO

MrNipha