Longbottom's torture (was: Snape and Lily and Florence and Ginny and.. .)

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KathyK wrote:
Crouch Jr. and the Lestranges torture the Longbottoms into insanity 
AFTER Voldemort's AK curse backfires on Harry.  They do it because 
they think the Longbottoms have information on Voldemort's 
whereabouts.  Read GoF Chapter 30 (p 603 of the US paperback ed.)
 

Now Jenny here:

I wonder if that is really the reason the Longbottoms were tortured. I'm not 
trying to say the LV sent them, but DD said that the information gotten from 
the Longbottoms was none too reliable, given their condition.  He was referring 
to who did it to them, but this can also mean that their information on *why* 
they were tortured was also unreliable.

And even if it were the reason why, what made Bellatrix and Co. think they 
had this information? Was Frank there the night the Potters were killed? The 
reason I think of Frank is because he was the focus of the torture, and they 
moved on to Alice when he wouldn't talk.

While I'm heading in the direction of the night the Potters were killed, can 
anyone kindly direct me to the consensus that was reached about how the heck 
DD knew they had been attacked?????


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