[HPforGrownups] JKR's cryptic answer: Who sent the Lestranges to the Longbottoms?

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 119755

> Spoiler here for anyone not reading JKR updates!
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> Rumours Section:
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> Q: The Lestanges were sent after Neville to kill
> him.
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> JKR: "No, they weren't, they were very definitely
> sent after 
> Neville's parents. I can't say too much about this
> because it 
> touches too closely on the prophecy and how many
> people knew about 
> it, but the Lestranges were not in on the secret."
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> Jen: 
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> <snip>
> I'm stumped on this one. Most of the DE's were
> trying to talk their 
> way out of Azkaban about this time, yet the
> Lestranges and at least 
> one superior were still carrying out a secret
> operation. 
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Okay, I haven't actually read the update.  But I don't
understand exactly why this drawing so much attention.
 I mean, I get the part about Neville & the prophecy
and wondering the significance of her mentioning it
(and possible the significance of them not knowing).

But what she says here just seems to back up what is
in the book to me:  they did not go there to kill
Neville.  They went there because Frank was an auror
of renown and they thought he might know what happened
to Voldemort and tried to torture it out of him.


Rebecca

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