Initiate grades, treatment of the Awakened and how common they are. Options

[Hagga]

I asked in a previous thread, that was somewhat related, in a hope of not having to make a new one. No answers, so I thought I'd try here:

Magical strength and grades of initiation, obviously, are not the same. How common is it for an initiate mage to be running around? And the further question - how common is it for the various grades? In Street Magic, there is a grade 5 initiate at the peak of his power - 11 magic. He's in Saeder Krupp's moonbase. How would corps and nations react to him? What if he wasn't employed by a corp, but just ran an enchanting shop? Or was a crime lord in some godforsaken slum?

What about, (my original question) those who make the Lord Protector look like a sickly little girl? People who have done *nothing* but study magic since the start of the Sixth World and are sitting around with grades of 15, 20, 25 with magic at peak potential? How is the world likely to react to these if they are corp or government employed? And worse, those who *aren't* but are independent? I can't help but imagine lynch mobs, or a gauss cannon to the skull at point blank range "Just to be sure", for all three. It's fairly monstrous, after all. (Yes, I know statted dragons have magic that is sitting around 12. Let's face it - that's ridiculous. Given that all the adult dragons were hatched in the previous Age, they're going to have grades of *gulp*.)