Why didn't the Longbottoms go into hiding?

[romuluslupin1]

No: HPFGUIDX 110981

> 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. 


I won't let your speaking ill of the dead go unpunished! ;-)

As I read it, Sirius didn't turn down the SK job out of cowardice 
(that's the way it sounds in your post. If you didn't mean that, I 
apologize), he did it out of cleverness (however ill fated). He was 
planning to go into hiding as the *official* SK while Peter (who was 
also going to hide out) and the Potters (who were protected by the SK 
charm) went on their merry ways. I figured Sirius was planning to go 
somewhere leaving a trail a mile large for the DE to follow, then 
trasform into Padfoot in order to mud the trail and then apparate, 
fly or whatever to Bora Bora (or wherever else he spent the time 
between POA and GOF). I bet Uncle Alphard left him a summer house in 
the Tropics or something.

Romulus Lupin, always ready to defend poor, maligned Sirius.