Why didn't the Longbottoms go into hiding?

[baphythegoat]

No: HPFGUIDX 110667

It is also intersting to note that while Neville and Harry are in the 
same year, that this does not necissarily mean that they were born 
weeks apart... Could Neville be a bit younger?(even up to a year?)  
After all, much has been made of his addled memory. Could it be 
possible that the curse on the Longbottoms affected their child... 
directly, becuase he was technically in utero? 

Hmmmm? 

I always had the notion that Neville was given by Dumbledore as an 
example of another boy who could have been in Harry's shoes, not 
necessarily that it would have to had been him OR Harry...

Baphy the goat