The Longbottom's secret message

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 102565

Neri:
Now, what if this message that Alice is 
> trying to tell Neville is the same information for which she was 
tortured?
> 
> If so, it's not likely to be the whereabouts of Vapormort 14 years 
ago. This would be an 
> anticlimax. No, it should be something else. Something that was 
extremely important 14 years 
> ago and is still extremely important today. It is not the prophecy 
either. This will also be 
> an anticlimax. 
It should be something that DD doesn't know, maybe doesn't even 
guess. Bella 
> might have inkling what it is about (or why did she take the risk 
that landed her in Azkaban 
> for trying to pry it out of the Longbottoms) but she doesn't know 
the important part and she 
> probably believes it was erased with the rest of the Longbottom's 
minds and lost forever.  

Jen: I've thought about this and read other theories, but none seem 
to fit. One theory was Bella et.al. knew that the Longbottoms, as 
Aurors, may have been involved with questioning Sirius when he was 
sent to Azkaban. Bella hoped the Longbottoms picked up something 
useful from him. 

I do think the Prophecy could come into play here, without being too 
anticlimatic. If the inner circle of DE's knew the first part of the 
Prophecy, they also knew Neville was a possible enemy to Voldemort. 
They could have gone after the Longbottoms seeking knowledge of the 
Prophecy to understand what made Voldemort turn to vapor. Not 
knowing the second half of the Prophecy, they didn't realize Harry 
had already been marked as the equal.

Another thought is something to do with the Department of Mysteries. 
Maybe some research Alice was aware of that will have importance 
later on.

People have even suggested Dumbledore is behind the lack of recovery 
of the Longbottoms, keeping them loopy for their own protection 
because they do know classified information, perhaps about the force 
more wonderful and more terrible than death. I can't agree with this 
one, though, Dumbledore apologist that I am. 

I tend to think if anyone is involved with drugging them (via the 
Droobles of course) it would be Lucius. But why would he want to 
keep them insane unless they know something about him? That could be 
a possibility. The DE's tortured the Longbottoms to find out about 
their interrogation of the escaped DE's.

Anyone else?

Jen Reese