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When smart people are underappreciated, they get beaten down to seeing themselves as normal. This lack of meritocracy creates a pain pattern. The wizard conjuring fire, hurting others, and wondering why, himself being immune to burns.

They come to see hackability as lack of humanity. The wizard believes muggles to be inferior because they can't learn magic. The wizard who is unaware of the world of wizards and their disciplined usage of magic.

The wizard who has felt alone all his life and in terrible pain. Not understanding why he is being hurt and others being hurt by him.

Castle systems that divide the world into wizards and non-wizard grasp the importance of boundaries. The problem is that any boundary drawing system ossifies and becomes an artifact of cutting power and dividing, easily a scalpel used in wrong hands.

When magic is used to enforce these boundaries for the sake of protection it is good. E.g. not letting the knowledge of nuclear bombs being known by EVERYONE. It is bad when used to exclude, the draw into two sides and label one as good and the other as bad.

Untrained wizards become evil because they never had anyone to teach them to channel their power. It grows wild and unstable. Coupled with the loneliness, it can become powerful yet perverse.

Parents know that when a child has the Light they needed to be sent to the best schools. That was their responsibility, to serve this Light.

Problem is the wizards stopped serving, their lives became obviously better than the muggles. People started pretending their children had the Light. They forced them to mimic all aspects of having light.