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8Rob wrote: Magic was there already before 1x22

-Regina made a forgetting spell in 3x09, when Henry was a baby

-Regina and Jeferson opened a portal with the hat in 1x21, before the curse was broken

-Graham's heart thing ...

-And the town itself was frozen in time, which needed magic.

But you couldn't create magic ex novo back then. That is what Rumple brought in 1x22 So I don't understand. Why did Rumpel wait so long to come to our world and find Bae? He did nothing while the curse was on the town anyways, and he waited 28 years to pour the potion into the well to allow him to do magic...