The Longbottems (was OoP Book Covers also The certian room)

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No: HPFGUIDX 54517

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Fred Waldrop" 
<fredwaldrop at y...> wrote:

> 
> Hello all, Fred Waldrop here;
> 
> What could they know?
> Exactly who tortured them. Can anyone say Lucius Malfoy was not one 
> of them? 
> After all, on (page 603, GoF, US) it says "Unfortunately, the 
> Longbottoms' evidence was - given their condition - none too 
> reliable."
> So, Lucius might have been involved in the torturing of the 
> Longbottoms', and now, to cover his own butt, he is making sure 
they 
> never get out.


Or it could be that the Longbottoms know who *didn't* torture them,  
perhaps the fact that the son of a very highly placed Ministry 
official had nothing to do with it at all.  Who is more likely to 
believe Lucius' claims that he had not been a willing Death Eater, 
Crouch Sr. or Fudge?  Even Dumbledore said he wasn't positive about 
Barty Jr.'s guilt when Harry asked him about it after seeing the 
trial in the pensieve.  I could see Lucius keeping the Longbottoms 
incapacitated by way of payoffs to St. Mungo's in order to keep Fudge 
in power whether Lucius was actually involved in their torture or 
not. 

Audrey