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

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No: HPFGUIDX 119795


Magda: 
> > So someone (I'm betting Lucius Malfoy, suddenly thrust into the
> > position of Interim Leader after a few years as inner circle 
> > member and possibly experiencing his first rush of personal 
> > power) organizes a few true believers into a suicide mission and 
> > sets them on the Longbottoms, who it's possibly known LV had an 
> > interest in for an unknown reason.
 
Jen: 
> I was thinking of Lucius too, but then...Snape popped into my 
> head. Snape seems the best fit as the person who overheard the 
> prophecy. If so, then he would know about the Longbottoms and 
> could send Bellatrix and Co. to extract info without telling them 
> why.  BUT, given the timeline and Dumbledore's trust of Snape, 
> it's unlikely Snape could be behind both the Potters' and 
> Longbottoms' attacks and DD would still have faith in him. The 
> more I think about it, Lucius does seem the logical choice from 
> all the DE's we've met so far. (But that saps my favorite theory 
> that Lucius isn't really loyal to Voldemort. Maybe it can be 
> amended to say Lucius was loyal in the first war, but liked the 
> taste of power too much to take orders again <g>).


SSSusan:
I don't think Snape is a possibility -- assuming DD's word is 
trustworthy -- for didn't he say that Snape turned to their side 
*before* Voldy's downfall?

Your thoughts about Lucius, especially as they pertain to his being  
loyal or not-loyal to Voldy, are interesting to consider.

What about Fudge?  Is there any way he could've had a role in this, 
does anyone think?  

Or Bagman?  Wasn't he supposed to have done something he claimed was 
unwitting?  Passing something along that he allegedly didn't 
understand?  Would that fit?

Siriusly Snapey Susan, who's too tired to do anything besides ask 
questions which will probably turn out to be stupid.