LV's Choice: Potters or Longbottoms or Both?

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 99107

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> But what bothers me about this now is:  was Dumbledore so certain 
that
> Voldemort would either (a) attack only the Potters; or (b) attack 
the
> Potters and be annihilated as a result--that he failed to urge the
> Longbottoms into hiding as well?  I suppose they could have rejected
> the suggestion, too.  Perhaps Neville will never be alone in
> Dumbledore's office with the opportunity to rant at DD as Harry did,
> but he may have just as much right.
> 

There's no canon to show that DD told the Potters to go into hiding 
immediately after he heard the prophecy. What we are told (by Fudge, 
I believe) is that a spy told him that Voldemort was after the 
Potters, and it was only then that he urged them to go into hiding. 
I've always thought that DD didn't know, until the warning came from 
his "useful spy" that Voldemort had any knowledge of the prophecy.

Naama