The Longbottoms

[Nate Hennessey]

No: HPFGUIDX 158692

Tinktonks wrote:
   
  >why on Earth the DE's would think that the Longbottom's knew 
>anything about the downfall or the whereabouts of LV? I know they were 
>Aurors but I find it very hard to believe that Bella would clutch at 
>straws when her success would have her masters return in the balance?
   
  Nate writes:
  This is my theory and it is a little out-there. I believe that LV
  entrusted Bella with a horcrux. At the beginning of HBP she says,
  "The Dark Lord, has in the past, entrusted me his most precious-" 
  in the midst of blaming Lucius for the defeat at the Dept. of 
  Mysteries.
   
  Recall that Voldemort apparated Bellatrix away from that battle. 
  It has been suggested that Bellatrix herself is a horcrux (an excellent 
  theory by cmwinters on LJ), but I don't believe that - she could have 
  easily been killed or dementor's kissed over her years of death-eating
  - it was too great a chance to take with his soul. 
  I believe that Bellatrix knew where a horcrux was hidden and had 
  not had a chance to tell LV, in which case he apparated her 
  away, because she had something he wanted, rather than 
  leaving her to be arrested with Lucius and the others.
   
  Ok, so how does Bellatrix's horcrux fit with the Longbottoms? 
  It's possible that the Longbottoms, in the course of their 
  investigations, recovered the horcrux somehow (either immediately 
  before they went into hiding, or, depending on the timeframe 
  of the attack by Lestranges, possibly after they came out of 
  hiding). I don't think the Longbottoms knew what it was or even
  that they had it. The Lestranges didn't kill the 
  Longbottoms because the information they believed 
  they had was very important; they tortured them until
  they were no longer coherent. Yet, we can also infer from 
  the Longbottoms injuries, that they didn't give up the information 
  either - they were tortured to insanity. Maybe they didn't know
  what the Lestranges were talking about, maybe they did. They
  kept quiet whatever the case.
   
  So that's my theory. Bellatrix's horcrux disappeared 
  and the Longbottoms may or may not have known where 
  it was.
   
  If you want my crack!resolution to this theory, the horcrux 
  is Neville's remembrall. If you don't, then I can't help you, 
  I don't know where the horcrux ended up.
   
  There is, however, another avenue of investigation: Alice 
  was a pureblood witch. Her maiden name has never 
  been revealed. This point may be important.
   
  Ceridwen wrote:
   
  >I think LV's plan was to go to the two children born at the end of 
>July, to couples who had "thrice defied him", that night: visit the 
>Potters first, kill Harry, then move on to the Longbottoms and kill 
>Neville. Moving so quickly would have limited the possibility that 
>someone would warn the Longbottoms and move them to safer 
>surroundings. It would also get rid of the two possibilities at once 
>and clear the field for LV.

  That's a really good point. 
   
  As is the other theory that Lucius set his sister-in-law and the
  Crouchs up for a fall. 
   
  Cheers, Nate, who likes crack!theories.

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