Wouldn't muggle born wizards have more incentive than pure bloods and therefore be more powerful?

[Feng Zengkun]

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~Mo wrote:
>If you were muggle born, someone came
>along and told you that you were a wizard and had
>magical powers and were going to a wizarding school,
>wouldn't you be overwhelmed and excited and eager to
>try out this new found magic you never knew you had.
>Versus - if you were born into a wizarding family,
>magic is just a part of everyday life, so there is no 
>EXTRA incentive to try really hard.  (I am not saying 
>that pure bloodswouldn't try hard at all.)


 I kind of saw it a different way. Muggleborns would not have the same vested interest in keeping the wizarding world safe as purebloods. I mean, I would imagine that purebloods would fight harder, considering that magic is, as you say, a part of their everyday life. For them the loss/oppression of magic would be losing something thay've had and known all their life, like going blind. whereas for muggleborns they've known a life without magic anyway, so - bad analogy, but - it'd be like losing a shiny toy that they liked - sad but not terribly important. Harry is an exception, of course, but then I suspect most other muggle families aren't quite as horrible as the Dursleys.