When did the Lestranges attack the Longbottoms? (Was: Old, old problem)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 151107

> >>Neri:
> <snip>
> Therefore Karkaroff was caught the year before GH, and the six    
> months it took Moody to track him should not be counted in        
> figuring the time of the attack on the Longbottoms after GH. 

Betsy Hp:
Ooh! Which means that Snape was spying for Dumbledore for over a 
year before Godrics Hollow, right?  

(Desperately thinking of something to make this more than just one 
line...)

Hmm, this does make the Peter vs. Snape vibe that much more 
interesting, doesn't it?  How hard must Snape have searched for the 
Order spy everyone knew was there, and how frustrating that he never 
did find him.  (Was Peter similarly stymied, or did Voldemort ever 
realize he even *had* a spy?)

Betsy Hp