User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 360:The White Inheritance, Review and Commentary/@comment-24066070-20131115194948/@comment-1359322-20131116085100

She did have a teacher that taught her magic although the teacher seems to be very incompetent. So it's not like she was new as a mage or anything, she was just new as a Guild mage that's all.