There are lots of themes and lessons in this book.
To me, perhaps the biggest lesson is that murdering people in cold blood tears your soul apart (at least in Rowling's opinion.) This is the book where we learn about Horcruxes, and I think that is the message of the Horcruxes.
I think there are some other themes. First, I think we see the theme of self-sacrifice. Both Harry and Dumbledore are doing a lot of stuff that they would rather not have to do, but they are going to do it because it is necessary. Dumbledore, for example, drinks the potion at the lake to get the locket. And then he allows himself to be killed. Harry sacrifices time with his friends and his fun to go through this all with Dumbledore.
You can also see the importance of true trust and friendship with the whole deal between Lavender and Ron and Hermione. And we see Harry being a friend by backing off of doing anything about liking Ginny for a long time because he doesn't want to hurt his relationship with Ron.
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