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The elder wand plays a very significant role in the resolution of Harry Potter.  It is important to note that Voldemort thinks that he is the true master of the elder wand after killing Snape, because Snape killed Dumbledore.  He is wrong, in fact the wand went from being in Dumbledore’s power, to Draco, when Draco disarmed Dumbledore and then to Harry when Harry took Draco’s wand.  The glitch in Voldemort thinking that the elder wand was allied to him cost him his life.  Harry was the true master of the wand and the master of death.  The wand would and did not betray Harry.  The weapon Voldemort was trying to use was practically useless to him and ended up being his downfall.
Let us not forget that this was the very wand that was on a mission for a good portion of the last book, this wand that can not be defeated and doesn’t lose battles.  He believed he needed it to defeat Harry, especially since he could not use his old wand that came from the same core as Harry’s.  And with the wand came so much power, something that Voldemort craved.  Though we find that Voldemort also didn’t know that the wand was part of something greater, the deathly hallows.  Though it was mentioned that Voldemort wouldn’t need/ want the other two hallows because he could make himself invisible without the cloak and had no love for anyone that he would want to resurrect with the stone, it was these three items that made Harry the master of death.
By the end of the book, Harry wanted nothing to do with the elder wand or the stone for that matter.  He resolved to put the elder wand back in Dumbledore’s casket, hoping that no one would find it there and that way when he died the elder wand would naturally no longer have any master, therefore not hold so much power.  I think he feels this way because these two objects held so much power.  If so much power gets in the hands of the wrong people it can be very dangerous.  Even if it lands in the hands of good people, sometimes too much power for good people, like Dumbledore and his tale, isn't beneficial either, unless it happens naturally.  But, how many people did Voldemort kill just to get his hands on the elder wand?  Why would anyone want something that holds that much power and can potentially cause so much harm around?  After all, Dumbledore was keeping the wand to protect everyone else from it.