Were Dumbledore & Snape involved in James & Lilly's death+ LV downfall?

[ilubom]

No: HPFGUIDX 90151

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Debbie Roberson" 
<robersondd at c...> wrote:
[very heavy snipping]

>Do you think, perhaps, that might be WHY the Potters 
> were in hiding in the first place?  Do you think the prophecy 
might 
> have something to do with WHY the Longbottoms were tortured and 
ended 
> up in Hospital?


Debbie, I think the prophecy DID have something to do with it. After 
LV ran into his little problem with killing Harry and lost his 
powers his inner circle of DEs would have realised that there was 
more to the prophecy and that LV may have been set up. 
The best way to find out what happened would be to ask those related 
to the subject of the prophecy, in the hope that they knew what 
happened and why (if LV was set up, the Potters and Longbottoms 
would be most likely to know how that was done). 
As the Potters were dead, they couldn't tell anyone anything. The 
only other possibility were the Longbottoms, because their son could 
also have been the subject of the prophecy. I think the DEs thought 
the Longbottoms may know something because of their connection with 
the prophecy and so tried to torture the information out of them. It 
seems a bit unlikely to me that Longbottoms were targets simply 
because they were Aurors - there are many Aurors working for the 
Ministry, but only Longbottoms were singled out. 

Irina