Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26116863-20160411030312/@comment-25926288-20160411034048

All of its grey. THe Apprentice who would be a "light"magic user could rip out Rumple's heart. Thus, it appears that either magic may be capable of everything., just the intentions are different.

For example, if Emma used her "light" magic to kill Cruella in anger, then it's dark magic in essence. However, the show won'tsay that for whatever reason. The show has a bad tendency to call anything dark or light regardless if the morality behind it.

Merlin apparently has magic that doesn't agree with Hades, but it would be terrible to just say Hades has "dark" magic because that's sort of a terrible black and white view of life. likely it's just powerful magic from some foreign source to Hades.

I think whatever the magic is rooted in is what the magic is until the person does things actively against it. So, for example, Regina's magic was dark, until she rooted it in hope and love, effectively changing it (in a way).