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

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No: HPFGUIDX 119768


I'll try again with a thought I had in a post some months ago, 
pertaining to this subject, that Harry was left with the Longbottoms 
for safe keeping during the missing twenty-four hours, which led the 
remaining death-eaters definite cause to investigate. 

Where else would Harry be safe and well taken care of, after his 
parent's death, but an Aurors house, who by the way just had a child 
themselves that knew Harry's parents being in the Order together. 
Dumbledore surely wasn't babysitting and neither was McGonnagall, 
Hagrid-that's a laugh, he's lucky if he could take care of his 
forbidden creatures. Dumbledore was busy making packs with living 
relatives to Harry.  
Hagrid was instructed to take Harry to the Longbottoms.  Everything 
went flawlessly that day into the night
but
 someone knew the 
whereabouts of the child that brought down their Master, Voldemort. 
The people protecting this child, who disposed of their Master, 
surely would know something?

{Everyone was aware of the fact that this child lived from 
Voldemort's attack, not even a day after it happened (Harry hadn't 
even been delivered to the Dursley's yet) wizards were all out 
celebrating the fact that they knew Harry lived and Voldemort was 
gone. Everyone felt safe from Voldemort but they forgot about his 
loyal followers, when they were parading in front of muggles, the 
traces of Voldemort were like the reason "We" are still in Iraq! Just 
because the leader is gone the subjects to his cause are still out 
there. Yet initially they all felt safe, Voldemort (Sadam) was 
beaten; he was gone, cause for great celebration and relaxation.}

Someone in the ranks of Voldemort knew that Harry, the resilient 
child, had been taken to the Longbottoms for protection after the 
incident at Godric's Hollow. It would have, however, been assumable 
to Voldemort's mates that anyone who had been given such a high 
priority task (as to take care of the child that destroyed Voldemort) 
would also know some circumstances of the whereabouts of the victim. 
The Longbottoms surely would have been privy to information of what 
had happened to their Master, right? No, they weren't, which was 
ingenious of the General in charge, Dumbledore.  (It's rough being a 
General)

Lucius looks too obvious of a suspect to inform the death-eater 
troops of his findings of information on Harry but he is of course 
suspect. I'm not quite certain who I would attribute the "Harry 
whereabouts" to be, but it is extremely doubtful, if not impossible 
that it was Snape. 

I still maintain that someone knew that Harry was at the Longbottoms 
for protection, as well as comfort, and the second-hand man to 
Voldemort sent Bella and Co. to find the information, that wasn't 
there, but Cruciatus (crucified) them to insanity.  

Snow