Did the Potters know the prophecy?

[Tammy]

No: HPFGUIDX 117340


Empooress wrote:

> Remember the bit about having defied Voldy three times
> perhaps at the time of Harry's birth that had not yet
> occured. And I would think that the Longbottoms also
> had gone into hiding as well. I would think that both
> sets of parents had been told about the prophecy. Come
> to think of, I wonder how Voldy's followers knew where
> to find the Longbottoms so soon after the attack.
> While the canon does not give a specific time, it does
> seem to indicate that it occured shortly after the
> attack on the Potters, as the followers where tring to
> find out where Voldy was, so that appears to me that
> they did not know what had happened at Godic's Hollow.
> 

Tammy replies:

Actually it states in cannon that the attack on the Longbottoms
happened  "just when everyone thought they were safe" which seems to
indicate that it happened after a decent period of time (I'm thinking
a month or two). No one knew what happened to Voldemort if you recall,
not even after it happened. That's why Bella & co. went to Frank and
Alice, as aurors, if anyone would know then they would know (at least
that's what the DEs would think). Thus if the Longbottoms had gone
into hiding, they would have been out of hiding by then, as it was "safe".

-Tammy