LV's Choice: Potters or Longbottoms or Both?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 99113

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "naamagatus" 
<naama_gat at h...> wrote:

> My theory about why the DEs targeted the Longbottoms is also 
> speculative and relates to their job as Aurors:
> 
> We know that DD and others in the WW didn't believe that 
Voldemort  had been truly vanquished. It makes sense, then, that 
there would be  aurors assigned specifically to find where he 
was hiding, what  exactly had happened to him, etc.<

Pippin:
"[...] I dared not go where other humans were plentiful, for I knew 
the Aurors were still abroad and searching for me." -Voldemort, 
GoF ch33.

It makes sense to me that the Longbottoms would be in charge 
of the hunt for Voldemort since they'd survived more encounters 
with him than anyone else.


>From what Fudge says, Voldemort tried to keep it secret that he 
was after the Potters. Maybe he was just more successful in 
keeping secret that he was after the Longbottoms, too. It would 
be a reasonable precaution for them to go into hiding anyway. If 
they had a more faithful secret keeper, then neither  Voldemort or 
his servants could have found them. But they might have come 
out of hiding to pursue Voldemort once he had been 
disembodied and his followers had been arrested or deserted 
him.

I think the attack on the Longbottoms came after most of the 
suspected Death Eaters had been rounded up. Sirius says in 
GoF that the Lestranges had "talked their way out of Azkaban" 
before young Crouch was found with them.

Pippin