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Look at the difference between the Lupins, who left their child to join the fight, and died, and the Malfoys, who in the end only cared for finding their child and keeping him safe, and lived.

This does not hold true for Harry's parents, who, while trying to hide, still died resisting Voldermort and who, like the Lupins, left an orphan behind.

[Mr. and Mrs. Wesley were also in the thick of the fight and they also survived.]

Ah, but Harry's parents died directly protecting him, with Harry literally in the same room, and the Weasley's as well were in battle *with* their children, at their side. Lupin and Tonks were away from their child when they died.

By the way, I think Mrs. Weasley was pretty much written to be the "perfect" mother-figure in the series... she could (apparently) pull food out of thin air, she could always find a place for anyone who needed one, her biggest fear was harm coming to her family, she would forgive any wrong done by any of her children (she was the only one who never said anything bad about Percy, and she never gave up hope that he would come back to the family), and she would do anything to protect her children, from annoying them incessantly to putting down the baddest warrior-witch out there, if that (w)itch dared to threaten her children.

Commentary on feminism, anyone?