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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 3658341" data-attributes="member: 3586">Read the book twice so far...Great stuff.On Voldemort and the Weasleys... we see in the last book that Voldemort really doesn't want to kill pureblood families. He will if he has to, but he wants them to convert to his side. There are really few pureblood families by this point (as Sirius says in book 5), so wiping out the Weasleys is somewhat counterproductive.After all, Percy has shown him that the Weasleys can come to see his way...Although The Deathly Hallows is primarily about Harry's search for the Horocruxes, it's as much about Dumbledore, and his flawed desire to find the Hallows. The idea that whoever found the Hallows would master death is really not a property of the Hallows, but instead a prophecy that the one who united them (Harry) would master death by losing his fear of it. Harry survives Voldemort's killing curse in the forest due to the properties of the Elder Wand, his mother's blessing, and his own willingness to sacrifice himself, which, incidentally, then protects all those fighting against Voldemort against Lord V's spells during the final scenes...Cheers!</blockquote>