Why didn't the Longbottoms go into hiding?

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 110713

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carodave92" <carodave92 at y...> 
wrote:
> > 
> 
> Maybe the Longbottoms didn't go into hiding because, as Aurors, 
they 
> were actively hunting for LV (prior to the night in Godric's 
Hollow) 
> and then DEs (following that night).  Neville could have been in 
> hiding with his Gran or someone else.  However, just as a 
policeman 
> wouldn't hide from a felon who threatened his life, the 
Longbottoms 
> probably couldn't fade from the scene because of a threat.  
> 
> carodave

mhbobbin writes: that makes sense that they had a job to do. Except 
that at the time LV goes after the Potters he seems to have been 
**winning** the war so it also wouldn't be surprising to learn that 
ones who feared they specifically might be targeted might not stick 
around to find out. LV was picking off OotP members one by one. And 
Sirius Black declined to be the Potters' secret keeper because he 
himself was planning to go into hiding. 

mhbobbin