Dumbledore

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 177379

Eggplant: 
> Because Dumbledore did not think  Harry would survive; and if
> everything had gone according to Dumbledore's plan and Harry had
> killed the snake before he confronted Voldemort in the forest he 
> most certainly would have been killed. 

Dana

Nonsense, as long as Voldemort was alive, Harry could go back. 
Voldemort did not drop dead when Neville killed Nagini either. He 
would surely not have died if the event, of Harry's supposed death, 
had taken place after Nagini was taken care off. He still had the 
soul bit residing in his body and without actively killing that part 
of his soul, he would not just have dropped death because Harry did 
[not]. 

Voldemort couldn't die because each individual soul pieces would keep 
him bound to the living world. If his conscious soul died then it 
could not depart because the other bits kept it from crossing over 
but that doesn't mean that if these pieces would no longer be there 
that he would spontaneous combust or something. 

To me, it seems that the only reason Voldemort was down on his knees, 
after what happened to Harry, was because of the mind link Harry 
shared with LV (that was probably broken forcefully) and not because 
the soul bit died. The crying creature at Kings Cross was the soul 
bit attached to Harry because if it had been LV conscious soul then 
he would surely have experienced the events at the same time Harry 
did but Voldemort had no clue Harry was not really death or what 
would become of him if he died. It would surely had increased his 
fear of death by a tenfold (at least) but as we see in the final 
scene, he surely wasn't worried about it more then he ever was 
before, not even when Harry told him no horcruxes where left. 

Just my two cents and opinion of course.

Dana