Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26715865-20151102192732/@comment-25926288-20151102200154

I have an issue with this as well. Belle reads books, but she's not a studier of magic. I like to read, doesn't mean I'm going to read all my textbooks and more of those.

Rumple made it clear that he didn't like Belle touching his things and I doubt he'd let Belle read magical books that could effect him or others in any way possible.

Belle is a good researcher, not some wise sage on magical knowledge. She poured in vials that had no labels on it and am I suppose to think she knows what it is. But also, it's how they treat Belle like a walking encyclopedia and nothing else. She reads mythology and some normal books, but she's not a computer. They are making Belle seem as good as Regina in potioncraft and that should not be the case.