[@spencerishere] That works fine. He'll probably be an outcast on both sides, and the mother would likely have been an outcast due to having a mixed child (There is an us vs. the outsiders perspective there.) So there is that.

Now, public opinion about magic and its use. Magic is accepted unless you're good at it. Odd yeah, but people think that if something "seems" easy then there's something unnatural there. Everyone has some access to magic, but take a Mage trained in university and the "miracles" they do, and the public would be understandably questioning.