Longbottoms' Secret Keeper

[leb2323]

No: HPFGUIDX 107474

esmith222002 wrote:
> > It seems that the assumption is that Harry's parents were in 
hiding because of the prophecy. If this is so, then surely the 
Longbottoms would have been in hiding also. 

kandbmom wrote:
I wondered about this a couple of weeks ago and came 
> to the conclusion that because the Longbottoms were aurors, they 
were probably out and about leaving Neville with Gran to protect 
him.  
---snip---
> I think the Crucio was meant to get Frank and Alice to tell where 
> Neville was and that it didn't work.  I think that DD was probably 
> the secret keeper for the Longbottoms thus, Neville was never found.


leb:
I've had this thought dancing through my head lately and this thread 
brought it up again.  The details aren't very well thought out but 
here are the basics:  I think we're going about this the wrong way.  
The Potters had a secret keeper to keep *themselves* hidden from the 
bad guys.  On the other hand, I think that the Longbottoms (most 
probably Alice in particular) were themselves the secret keepers to 
keep *Neville* hidden.  This could also explain why Alice keeps 
giving Neville the droobles wrappers -- she's letting him know that 
she's still keeping his secret even though she's incapacitated 
(probably makes the job a lot easier that way!).  

I would love to get some feedback on this idea.
leb