Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5106672-20140306031257

Among the several open questions Once:Wonderland has raised concerning the OUAT universe and the main storyline, the White Rabbit's powers seem to be something of an issue.

We have two people in Wonderland who are surely interested to going back to the Enchanted Forest: the Mad Hatter, who was literally desperate to get back, and Cora, who grabbed the first occasion she got (Hook) to do so – and I don't think it's a stretch to assume she put the Hatter to work in order to tavel back with him in the first place. Then we've got a portal jumper who can easily bring people along without apparently any restrictions (two people jump a way, three another, he can bring magical and non-magical people alike, all sort of stuff like that).

So here's my theory: could it be that the Rabbit's power are like those of the hat, but in reverse? That he can transpass only to lands without magic (and back) so that's why he didn't (or was forced to) get Jefferson and/or Cora back to the Enchanted Forest?

This would mean Victorian England is a land without magic like "ours", which would be consistent with Jefferson saying that some lands have magic and some don't (emphasis un the plural). 