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I was referring to a later date - the one where Voldy is telling Snape he has targeted the Potters. By which time Lily has then been pregnant for several months.
But even then someone who wasn't in her social circle wouldn't know from casual sources that she was pregnant. And only the person who was sent to look the information up would know from non-casual sources. So unless you are saying Voldemort sent Severus on this mission I don't think he knew Lily had been pregnant until he saw the birth announcement. (And what access does Severus have to St Mungo's? Unless this was his previous cover job.) And even after knowing that Lily had a son in late July he wouldn't have gone to Dumbledore because this really wasn't an obvious interpretation of the part of the prophecy he delivered, it only looks obvious after the fact. But personally I think a Dark Lord has to be a lot more idiotic than canon-Voldemort to choose one definite target before the children were born (if he even assumes the prophecy refers to someone not born yet). So while he might have taken a casual interest in narrowing down the potential candidates before hand he would need to know the actual birth dates to have one target.
Mostly, I accept it because it's the only clue JKR gives us in the books as to when the Potters went into hiding. And we have no clue whatsoever that the Longbottoms ever DID go into hiding. IF Albus would hide the Potters just because they were preggers then the same should hold for the Longbottoms - at least until Snape tells Albus the real target.
We know nothing about what the Longbottoms were doing one way or the other before the Lestranges attacked them. Yes, I always (ie from before DH, obviously not before OOTP) assumed they had been hiding (or at least Alice and Neville were) because that's what I would have done in Dumbledore's place. We do know Alice was not in active duty when they were attacked (while Augusta says they were both Aurors in the trial Crouch refers to them as an Auror and his wife). But we do not know when she dropped out. Frank couldn't hide effectively because he had a job to go to, but their home could have been protected the way the Blacks had protected theirs.
So - back to the meeting on the Hill. For your timeline, Albus already has the Potters in hiding and yet he's stringing Snape along. Could fit - as I said previously - it's one or the other.
Well, he could have been making a decision to add more protections to the Potters, or to think of more protections to add eventually, while deciding security for the Longbottoms can be downgraded. Yes, stringing Severus along is definitely in Dumbledore's character. He doesn't want Severus to be relieved that Lily is already protected he wants to extract promises to do more for the cause from him.
But even then someone who wasn't in her social circle wouldn't know from casual sources that she was pregnant. And only the person who was sent to look the information up would know from non-casual sources. So unless you are saying Voldemort sent Severus on this mission I don't think he knew Lily had been pregnant until he saw the birth announcement. (And what access does Severus have to St Mungo's? Unless this was his previous cover job.) And even after knowing that Lily had a son in late July he wouldn't have gone to Dumbledore because this really wasn't an obvious interpretation of the part of the prophecy he delivered, it only looks obvious after the fact. But personally I think a Dark Lord has to be a lot more idiotic than canon-Voldemort to choose one definite target before the children were born (if he even assumes the prophecy refers to someone not born yet). So while he might have taken a casual interest in narrowing down the potential candidates before hand he would need to know the actual birth dates to have one target.
Mostly, I accept it because it's the only clue JKR gives us in the books as to when the Potters went into hiding. And we have no clue whatsoever that the Longbottoms ever DID go into hiding. IF Albus would hide the Potters just because they were preggers then the same should hold for the Longbottoms - at least until Snape tells Albus the real target.
We know nothing about what the Longbottoms were doing one way or the other before the Lestranges attacked them. Yes, I always (ie from before DH, obviously not before OOTP) assumed they had been hiding (or at least Alice and Neville were) because that's what I would have done in Dumbledore's place. We do know Alice was not in active duty when they were attacked (while Augusta says they were both Aurors in the trial Crouch refers to them as an Auror and his wife). But we do not know when she dropped out. Frank couldn't hide effectively because he had a job to go to, but their home could have been protected the way the Blacks had protected theirs.
So - back to the meeting on the Hill. For your timeline, Albus already has the Potters in hiding and yet he's stringing Snape along. Could fit - as I said previously - it's one or the other.
Well, he could have been making a decision to add more protections to the Potters, or to think of more protections to add eventually, while deciding security for the Longbottoms can be downgraded. Yes, stringing Severus along is definitely in Dumbledore's character. He doesn't want Severus to be relieved that Lily is already protected he wants to extract promises to do more for the cause from him.