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[HARRY POTTER] Becoming a powerful wizard. Are you born with it or can you learn to be one?

Simple question. Can you learn to be a great wizard by pure hard work and skill or is it something that you are born with.

Most of the powerful wizards display superior magical prowess at a young age without any training. Take Voldy's magic while he was at an orphanage as an example.

Is it something that you could simply work at it and become a powerful wizard?

(Pre-empting that people will cite Hermione as an example. She was a hard working witch but I doubt she could become as powerful as Voldemort even if she had the ambition to)
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Natural aptitude certainly has something to do with it. If you aren't prodigiously gifted, you'll never be a wizard the like of Dumbledore or Tom Riddle. That said, any wizard of that caliber has devoted a lifetime of study with an erudite mind to the craft in addition to their inborn talents. If you are a wizard of average aptitude, you can still become great. Take Kingsley, McGonogal, or Snape. They are all extremely proficient wizards, and none of them are magical prodigies. Their greatness comes from self cultivation.