Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-25926288-20160517232410

The rich people tend to be all the rage in fairytale and legend lore.

Henry can't do magic apprently, but his mother is magical, who's parents aren't magical. Basically, as the plot demands. I'm banking on the fact that magic is hereditary, but some people have much harder means of harnessing it.

Like Ana's mom might have had magic, but it wasn't anything she pursued and it wasn't ready to show, like Ingrid's or something. Likely for those people, there has to be large emtional stress in order to activate it within them. So, Regina was born with it, but she had to activate hers and it took a while for her to reach the level of emotional stress. Jafar's mother was a healer, I think.

I think based on how they are stressing that HG is the source of the magic. I'm betting that Merlin taught his Apprentice, and Dark Ones taught the others and by somehow giving them a way to access their magic, it continued on.