Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141006180403/@comment-24936039-20141022093257

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Andrew.scott.503 wrote: As the apprentice mentioned, there might never be enough power from the hat to free a dark one from the dagger... So Gold now has a new mission in life (or rather that his no 1 priority is no longer obsessing to reunite with his son) to once and for all free himself from the dagger and still retain the magic. I'm wondering if it just won't be the Snow Queen ending up as a star in the hat, but ALL the magic users in Storybrooke - Regina, Jefferson, Emma, Elsa, Blue, Maleficent and probably Henry... Never Henry. Rumple would never dishonor Bae's memory like that. And Jefferson doesn't have magic. His hat did, and he knew how to control it. But Jefferson himself did not have magic.

Cora demanded and forced/task Jefferson to make another magic hat... I think he might be more like an artificer/alchemist then the higher power spell caster types such as Regina, but still that is a form of a magic user. If Jefferson did get sucked into the sorcerer's hat, he would not be a blue giant star or high power quasar... just probably a small red dwarf star type.

I am sure if Gold thought he would just need a little bit 'more' hat power to rid himself of the dagger, he would rationalize sucking up Henry as well, despite his intentions to honor Neal. It is a reoccurring pattern with Rumples that despite the best of intentions, he usually tries shortcuts and the more expedient route - the latest example is lying to Belle (and giving the "I totally trust you" speech but gives her a fake dagger instead). Probably the 'noblest' act he actually did was killing himself and Pan/Malcolm at the end of season 3A - however spending his afterlife in the pit of the former dark ones, being brought back by Neal and absorbing Neal (and still losing his son), and controlled by Zelena, I think it is inevitable that he slip back into the villain role he held for so many centuries.