A different interpretation of the prophecy

[whizbang]

No: HPFGUIDX 103902

boyd_smythe wrote:
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> But IIRC, nowhere does anyone explicitly admit to doing that specific 
> torturing nor why they did it. 
> Which raises the age-old question: why did these DEs torture the 
> Longbottoms *after* the fall of LV? JKR could have just made this 
> happen before his fall if there was nothing more sinister going on, 
> right? <snip>

Whizbang:
I thought the DEs tortured the Longbottoms for information about
Voldemort.  They were trying to find him or what had happened to him.