Possible Harry 'death' scenario

[Diana <dianasdolls@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49188

These individual threads have been mentioned several times by other 
posters, but I wanted to pick up these threads and tie them into a 
big knot, okay, make that a pretty bow...:D  If someone else has 
already assembled this bow, then sorry for stepping on your loops.

*When Harry first attends Snape's class, Snape mentions a sleeping 
draught so powerful that it's effects mimic death.  Could be a major 
clue in the first book about the ending of the seventh book.

*Another list member posted a quote of JKR's about if people know 
their Christian doctrine, they'll know what's coming.

*JKR has said there will be upsetting deaths in future books.  
Harry's death would be grossly upsetting.

What if Harry is fed a "draught of death" potion to fool Voldemort 
into thinking he's dead?  Harry could have no knowledge in advance 
about this plan and think he's really dying.  If Harry doesn't know 
it is very  likely that Ron and Hermione would not know of this plan 
in advance either.  
The question is what benefit would the good side win by fooling 
Voldemort into believing Harry had died?  That is a question I 
wonder about as I don't know what connection, whether mystical, 
prophetical and/or even familial Voldemort and Harry might have.  If 
Harry "dies" and is then revived when the potion wears off or is 
counteracted, then, like in the Christian doctrine JKR mentions, 
Harry would come back from the "dead".  Sure he wasn't really dead, 
but no one else other than the person who planned Harry's pseudo-
death and gave him the potion may know this.  
Dumbledore says that people can't come back to life...but if Harry 
*appears* to have come back to life...that may cause Voldemort 
considerable distress.  And I do *love* to see old Voldie in 
distress!
I could see Voldemort thinking he's finally gotten rid of Harry when 
Harry pops back into life, shocking Voldemort so badly he makes 
mistakes that topple him and his Death Eaters utterly and forever.  
Granted, I'm not overly familiar with Christian doctrine, so I may 
be barking up the wrong tree, but if it's the idea of being "reborn" 
and coming back to life a la Christ, then maybe I'm not too far 
off?  
It's even possible that JKR would write Harry's death without 
letting the reader know that Harry really didn't die, until the 
entire plan was explained later on in the book.  Kind of tricky way 
to have the main character die, but not *die*.

What do you think?

Diana