Prophecy, Potters, Longbottoms, and the Fidelius Charm

[tinglinger]

No: HPFGUIDX 127918


elfundeb
I've come to the conclusion that the Longbottoms may not have had a
Secret Keeper.  According to Fudge in POA, Dumbledore became aware
that Voldemort was after the Potters.  Dumbledore also tells Harry in
OOP ch. 37 that Voldemort chose to go after Harry.  Thus, it's
possible that the reason the Secret Keeper was put in place was solely
because of that knowledge.
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If the Longbottoms did go into hiding, though, there are many possible
candidates for Secret Keeper among Order members.  Presumably, if
there was a secret keeper, after Voldemort fell, when everyone felt
safe, the charm would have been removed.  Thus, their attack did not
result from another double-crossing Secret Keeper.


tinglinger
I still think that the little pieces of paper that were used to
communicate the hiding place by the Secret Keeper are key to what
haappened both to the Longbottoms and the Potters.
This is why Alice saves the Droobles gum wrappers and gives them to
Neville for safekeeping or disposal. I contend that someone was very 
careless with the papers and resulted in the damage wrought.....
I expand on this theory in my  yahoogroup "potterplots" if you are
interested........

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/potterplots

 
elfundeb 
This last is total speculation, but I think the Longbottoms were
attacked because Ludo Bagman found out that Crouch had sent Frank to
find out where Vapormort was hiding, and it was one of those bits of
information he passed on to Rookwood, who informed the loyal
Lestranges, who recruited Barty Jr. (because the Crouches undoubtedly
socialized with the Longbottoms, as Frank was a popular and
up-and-coming Auror) to gain access to chez Longbottom.  The basis for
this last is that Barty Jr claimed to be innocent, which is plausible
if he didn't know why they were visiting the Longbottoms and if he
left the torturing to Bellatrix.  We also know that the Lestranges
don't know about the prophecy, which makes this plausible.
 
I'm still convinced, however, that there's a secret about Frank which
is connected with the attack.  Perhaps he had been playing the double
agent game, too, but revealed himself on the night of the torture.
 
who doesn't think there's a secret about Alice because of the way
Dumbledore explained the attack to Harry in GoF.


 
tinglinger
Ludo Bagman is not an innocent by any means, and if he isn't baked
into a pie by the goblins he ripped off, the dark lord will get him.
Not much has been said about Frank Longbottom at this point, so
anything is possible.