Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25433726-20150307042647/@comment-24218843-20150310054111

8Rob wrote: There was no magic and yet Regina used Graham's heart as a walkie-talkie in that episode... so whatever... There is a gigantic plot hole about Storybrooke having no magic before 1x22:

-Graham being alive without his heart

-Regina controlling Graham with the heart

-Regina and Jefferson opening the hat's portal

-Storybrooke cloaking spell

-Time being frozen

-Sleeping curse working on Henry after eating the apple turnover

-Regina preparing a forgetting potion after adopting Henry

All of this requires magic... so there was magic in Storybrooke before 1x22. I'm pretty sure Regina said magic exists in the form of the things she brought with her. The items themselves were magical, so that's how there was magic. The Chernabog was pure magic, which is why he was destroyed, but things like apples and hearts exist in our world but were enchanted (or enhabced so to speak) in another, so it carried over.

(but then again dragon maleficent lived underground for 30-ish so does Magic really follow logic or does it just make up its own rules?)