I see your Tom Riddle and raise you an Albus Dumbledore. Your Lily is a blatant exaggeration (Snape, James and Sirius have far better showings, from that generation, and she was only ever said to be good at Charms and I think Potions). Your Hermione is less of one but still an exaggeration (see: Percy Weasley).

 

Snape was muggle-raised too.

 

...how so?

 

He was also had a witch mother that he grew up with.

Also we never got a very good insight into wordless magic. How likely would it be that a witch/wizard's parent/s could practice all their magic without saying the incantation?
I mean could a magic raised student go to Hogwarts knowing his parents use magic, but not know that you have to know the incantations for some magic? If that's true it would then make more sense that Ron thought the twins were giving him a magic incantation.

 

We got insight into it. Nonverbal magic is something only the top students in Defense Against the Dark Arts get to learn, and like with all schoolwork not everyone who manages to test into the class does well at it. Every Tom, Dick and Harry knowing it is fanon.

 

Right thanks. I had forgotten Snape's paragraph in HBP

 

He lived in the muggle world, associated with muggle children (aside from Lily), and had a muggle father. The only wizarding influence in his life was his mother. Presumably he went to muggle primary school as well, given that they lived away from magical society.

This is also heavily implied by the way he defended the Philosopher's Stone; he used muggle logic, which is at the very least unusual to pureblood wizards, at the most completely alien.

 

What exactly does "lived in the muggle world" mean? Why does Snape live in the muggle world and the Weasleys - who live in St Ottery Catchpole and probably have muggle neighbours live nearby - don't?

None of this (aside from Snape having a muggle father) is canon.

Snape knew about magic and knew the ins and outs of the wizarding world. If Sirius is to be believed, Snape knew more about the Dark Arts coming into school than most seventh years. Given the context here, I don't see how you can call Snape "muggle raised". Magic certainly isn't new to him.

 

Some people could make an argument that Snape and Lily investigated magic together before Hogwarts and it was the base of their friendship. If that is true then does she truly count as muggle-raised or she hybrid enough that she counts as an exception?
The core question for me I guess is how much would parents be able to explain, hints and tips. We all see in HBP how much Harry's potion's grade improves with the HBP's book. We can assume that he never improves his understanding but I can imagine magical parents either having their old notes or giving different explanations to teachers that might help their child.
We aren't asking whether a magical child should know everything and jump into NEWTs as per some poor fanon but would they be maybe six months ahead? Would they spend their time till christmas bored? Would they potentially resent muggle-raised for holding them back?

 

If I remember correctly Gabrielle attends Beauxbatons at the age of 8. Maybe this is an attempt to introduce muggle borns at an earlier so they won't be as disadvantaged compared to their magical counterparts.

 

It's never mentioned in Goblet of Fire that Gabrielle is attending Beauxbatons at the time of the Second Task. Haven't watched the film in a while, but it's definitely not said anywhere in the book.

 

Gabrielle simply visited Fleur at Hogwarts. She's not attending Beauxbatons.

 

Magical raised, I think has more to do with growing up surrounded by magic more than where you were born. Someone could live in a muggle neighborhood and still have grown up with magic. They'd just have to keep it under the radar so the neighbors won't find out.

But, it does seem advantageous to live farther away from civilization as a magical family (Lovegoods, Weasleys, Malfoys, etc.) You wouldn't have to constantly be on edge about not accidentally revealing anything.

Anyways, my point is that Lily may have investigated her magic, but she's still new to the world. Stuff like floo travel, apparition, kneazles, aren't second nature. I think that really disqualified her from being magically raised

 

I imagine both sides has their pros and cons. The muggle born have a easy time blending in with muggle society. Magical kids understand magical society better.

 

I think magical society is stagnant and magic raised wizards and witches take magic for granted. There is a lack of innovation and creativity in magical society. They also lack common sense.

Muggle borns come in at a disadvantage not being immersed in magic since birth. But for the right person, that can become an advantage later one. The muggle side can fuel a different way of thinking

 

I suppose that both sides have advantages and disadvantages. But I think it is likely that it was true that Magical-raised were better than Muggle-raised for an extended period of time, certainly before formal education and literacy became as common as they are currently. Magical-raised most likely had a better education, in terms of arithmetic and reading/writing, than the average Muggle-raised before the 1800's (in 1820 apparently only 12% of the world population was literate). So up until the 1900's it was probably true, but after that they were likely on equal ground in the area of literacy/arithmetic.

Of course Magical-raised always had the cultural advantage, they knew terms and had connections they could call upon for help. But Muggle-raised probably were bringing more ideas and perspectives that their counterparts lacked.

 

Yeah, the only thing I can think of that would make one call magical society stagnant is that a lot of purebloods don't have and aren't familiar with the latest muggle tech. They certainly seem active and dynamic enough within magical society itself.

I suppose one could also complain about magical society having pureblood elites as a sign of their being backwards or stagnant, but it's not like modern society has no issues with racism of the 1%.