Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24846659-20140813193020/@comment-24936039-20141027200620

Daveyelmer wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: True, but that would have required to plan ahead an bring one along, or else wait until the curse was actually broken, because that's when Rumple brought Magic to the LWM. She would not have been able to get the ingredients for the potion in the LWM, unless Gold was involved with the amnesia, which means she still would have had to wait until Emma at least showed up in Storybrooke, because even Gold was suffering from Amnesia until that point. (or so we have been led to believe). We know magic existed in the "Land without Magic" before Rumple brought it to Storybrooke, so there's nothing to say that the Snow Queen didn't have the ability to cast a forgetfulness spell, particularly since we know she wasn't affected by or connected to the Curse.

Yes, there was the Dragon in Hong Kong. Greg and Tamara talked about other missions to deal with magical creatures. However, I think that any magic/magical creature in the LWM has to bring magic along with it. Magic is just not native. Example is Regina's locket with a magic picture of Daniel (the stable boy killed by Cora) which she used to make Jefferson's hat work (just enough) to retrieve the poison apple from the past/EF in season 1. So there is no reason to assume the Snow Queen brought some magic as well.

I think that the Snow Queen was taken with the first dark curse to the LWM, but Rumples was able to shield her sufficiently so that 1) she retained her memories and 2) she ended up OUTSIDE of Storybrooke, thus not in the town records.