Why did Voldemort Kill Ameila Susan Bones personally?

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No: HPFGUIDX 168961

> Aussie says:
> 
> Actually, Susan Bones (the student) lost her immediate family 17 years 
> ago to Death Eaters. so it makes me wonder ...
> 
> ... is LV killing off wizarding families for a reason?
> 
> Tom Riddle had little personal reasons to be resentful against 
> families ... but other Dark forces may have.

While  LV / TR may not have strong rational reasons to resent the old wizarding families, 
he nevertheless resents them. He's paranoid.  What else can explain LV's attempted 
murder of a baby?  As we saw in HBP, LV also has this thing about the founders of 
Hogwarts their artifacts, and the importance of being pure-blooded.  Unfortunately, the 
old families are what stand in his way to his access of any artifacts. He murdered his own 
wizarding family to get the ring and to enact revenge.

After Hogwarts, LV must have found it difficult to receive the same type of respect 
from older members of these wizarding families as he did from his group of "friends" at 
school.  Many would be richer, well established, and not willing to become one of his 
slaves.  Some families guard trinkets, special abilities and magical secrets.  Some would 
protest and work against Voldemort's use of the the dark arts.  It probably took a few 
murders to get everyone's attention and respect.  With his pureblood ideology,  I fear that 
a lack of respect from anyone who is from one of the old families would bother him more 
then the same behavior from a muggle-born wizard. (My guess)  Anyway, at the zenith of 
his power, Voldemort would only personally murder those who were great or worthy.  

> 
> Or are the Bones direct decendants of Helga Hufflepuff? Was that their 
> importance?

Since we know about one family who are descendants of Hufflepuff, it seems more likely 
that we will discover someone is the descendant of Gryffindor and/or Ravenclaw. (The 
Bones are as likely as anyone else to be descended from Ravenclaw or Gryffindor.)