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

[littleleahstill]

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SSSusan wrote:
Just a question of clarification.

Barty, Jr., in his trial scene, was nothing more than a kid
screaming, crying and begging his father to spare him, pleading and
denying his guilt. He didn't go off calmly or willingly, declaring
loyalty to Voldy, the way Bella, for instance, went. Are you arguing
that this was totally an act on BJ's part, his attempt to try to gain
sympathy for himself and/or generate an outcry against his father?

Siriusly Snapey Susan

Leah:

The idea that Barty Jnr was generating an outcry against his father 
was dcgmck's, but it seems logical to me.  In fact it was the 
description of Barty Jnr at his trial compared to the way he is 
referred to as 'my most faithful servant' by LV, that hasled some of 
us to 
finger Barty Jnr for the attack on the Longbottoms.

In the pensieve we see Barty Jnr as you have described above, a 
grovelling wreck.

>From Barty Jnr himself we learn that he was 'controlled' and finally 
imperiused by his father from the moment he left Azkaban.  

Yet Bertha, who, as ever, knows more than she should, describes Barty 
Jnr to LV as a 'faithful deatheater'.  And Barty Jnr himself 
says 'When I had recovered my strength I thought only of finding  my 
master....of returning to his service'.  Why, if all he has done is 
hang around with a crowd of deatheaters, and then deny his 
involvement? Would the boy at the trial really want to risk Azkaban 
again?  Why does LV decide Barty Jnr should be "deimperiused" 
immediately, why does he trust him to carry through the Moody 
impersonation?  What in Barty Jnr's past, as we know it, has 
suggested he has the wherewithal to do this? 

Therefore, my thought is that it was Barty who arranged the little 
outing to the Longbottoms, and the trial was a great piece of 
acting.  And Barty Jnr's not adverse to a nice bit of cruciatus, is 
he?