I think it has to be borne in mind that Louise Simonsons was also an editor and more aware of the broad sweepning nature of the X-Books than most and would adapt things to suit other writers elsewhere.
She wanted to move the New Mutants from the school and doing new things, and John Byrne wanted Magneto as a villain again and was going to use him in the "Acts of Vengeance" event (Byrne has a bit of a thing against villains reforming it would seem, what with Magneto and Sandman)
So New Mutants #75 has Louise write Magneto telling the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club that he never really changed his rather cold-blooded plans when taking over the school because he wanted to create his own soldiers, rather than because he owed Charles a debt and wanted to try and turn his life around (Which flies in the face of pretty much his entire Claremont/Simonson run because he DID want to turn his life around, only to hit the school year from hell, including the Beyonder killing and then resurrected the New Mutants leaving them traumatised as hell, Magus causing them to be lost in time for several months, and Doug dying)
Just before leaving the X-titles, Claremont would em>re-retcon this to him pretty much lying to the Hellfire Club and he had been fairly sincere but did get completely sick to the back teeth of humans and retreated to his new Asteroid M for some isolationist times, and then later came the Acolytes and it all went fairly evil again.
So yes Simonson did it, but since she didn't use Magneto again in her own stories that I can think of, I think you have to look elsewhere for the motivation behind the move.
It's actually rather impressive just how far up and down the spectrum of good and evil Magneto's been over the years, from his original standard super-villain version to the truly trying to change version as the New Mutants' mentor, to everything in between.
I don't think Marvel will ever return him to full on villainy--that ship more or less sunk when Morrison tried it and failed--but you never know exactly what he's going to do.
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She wanted to move the New Mutants from the school and doing new things, and John Byrne wanted Magneto as a villain again and was going to use him in the "Acts of Vengeance" event (Byrne has a bit of a thing against villains reforming it would seem, what with Magneto and Sandman)
So New Mutants #75 has Louise write Magneto telling the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club that he never really changed his rather cold-blooded plans when taking over the school because he wanted to create his own soldiers, rather than because he owed Charles a debt and wanted to try and turn his life around (Which flies in the face of pretty much his entire Claremont/Simonson run because he DID want to turn his life around, only to hit the school year from hell, including the Beyonder killing and then resurrected the New Mutants leaving them traumatised as hell, Magus causing them to be lost in time for several months, and Doug dying)
Just before leaving the X-titles, Claremont would em>re-retcon this to him pretty much lying to the Hellfire Club and he had been fairly sincere but did get completely sick to the back teeth of humans and retreated to his new Asteroid M for some isolationist times, and then later came the Acolytes and it all went fairly evil again.
So yes Simonson did it, but since she didn't use Magneto again in her own stories that I can think of, I think you have to look elsewhere for the motivation behind the move.
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I don't think Marvel will ever return him to full on villainy--that ship more or less sunk when Morrison tried it and failed--but you never know exactly what he's going to do.