Were the Longbottom's in Hiding too?

[Charles Walker Jr]

No: HPFGUIDX 170123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Karina Aleksandrova"
<caleksandrova at ...> wrote:
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> VexingConfection:
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> > 4-Could Snape have been finally given the DADA class to prove to LV
> > that he had won Dumbledore's trust and Snape was actually working
> > for Dumbledore all along? I read a really good fanfic to this
> > effect- if it's not true- I wish it was.
> 
> Karina:
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> 4) No, this premise doesn't make sense to me. If Dumbledore suddenly
> after so many years begins to trust Snape, why give him the position
> that is cursed, so that he'd lose his trusted ally within a year?

Charles:
My theory on this, and it works for DDM! or ESE! Snape, is that DD
needed Slughorn at the school. DD was all set to send Snape to LV full
time, and have him make reports by patronus. As the DDA curse does not
necessarily kill, they decide that the most natural way to accomplish
this is by making Snape the DDA teacher until such time as he can make
his way to be with LV full time. The UV, and later consequences would
be after such decision was made, IMO, so I really think that it was a
way to get Snape out of Hogwarts and into LV's presence more. Like I
say, it can work for ESE!Snape too, I can hear the scene with LV
now-"My Lord, I have achieved the Defense Post." "Excellent, Severus.
We now have someone who can ________" (Insert whatever the DA job was
good for to the DE's.)

Charles, who is impatiently waiting to read JKR's DH, as it will
finally lay a lot of questions to rest.