Why didn't the Longbottoms go into hiding?

[mhbobbin at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 110712

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "baphythegoat" 
<baphythegoat at y...> wrote:
> 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? 
> 
> mhbobbin:

 Neville is born the day before Harry, so is one day older.  In 
OotP,Chapter 37, page 842-Scholastic-- when DD explains the 
Prophecy, he explains to Harry there were two boys "born at the end 
of July that year". 
And recently JKR revealed on her website that Nevilles birthday is 
on July 30.

I've been trying to figure out how long after the Potters were 
killed the Longbottoms were attacked. It doesn't seem to be 
specified anywhere, except it is implied that it is days, weeks, or 
months later, not within the mysterious 24 hours following.  The two 
relevant chapters in GoF are "The Penseive" and "Padfoot Returns". 
Sirius talks about Barty Crouch Junior being brought into Azkaban-- 
Sirius is already in prison but how long?. Harry sees the three 
trials in DD's Penseive as Death Eaters are rounded up. Barty Junior 
has been caught with three DEs (The Lestranges) who had already 
avoided Azkaban (not definitive in timing). Some time would have had 
to pass for the DEs to realize LV was truly gone before the 
Longbottoms would have been tortured to find out what had happened 
to him. But I can't find anything more specific about the timing--
anyone remember anything else?

mhbobbin