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

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 119800


Neri wrote: (massive snipping)

The Barty Jr possibility again raises the "something rotten in the
Ministry" scenario.

Leah now:
Neri and dcgmck, I was very interested in your development of the 
Barty Crouch Jnr scenario. 

I was briefly sidetracked into wondering how LV found out about Barty 
Jnr, before I remembered it was Bertha Jorkins who was his unwilling 
source.  Bertha of course had gone on holiday to Albania (as you do), 
where Quirrel had gone to look for vampires (not Transylvania, then?)
and where Peter made contact with frightened woodland creatures.  
Peter had gone to the place where it had been 'long rumoured' that LV 
had gone to ground.  Long rumoured by whom?  And correctly as well 
(think of all the rumours re Lord Lucan, Martin Boorman etc).   
Someone knows more than they are telling, and like you, Neri, I 
suspect Frank and Alice hold the key (or the wrappers).  And Bertha 
told LV that Barty Jnr was 'a faithful deatheater', so somewhere 
along the line she had heard something about Master Barty beyond his 
grovelling behaviour at the trial.   

Leah