Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26443838-20151009221621/@comment-25926288-20151010214537

M.J. Daniels wrote:

Eskaver wrote: The laws of magic are just guidelines. I respectfully disagree. Why would Jafar go through all the trouble of collecting the genie bottles to break the Laws of Magic if they were just simple guidelines? Because that's the only way he knew. The Laws of Magic isn't easy to overcome. I'll rephrase it. They are thinks that are difficult to do and you can't do at a wave of your hand. JThe three Genies Spell did so for Amara and Jafar, but you could change the laws of magic with Cora's Curse of the Empty Hearted, Zelena's time travel spell, and somehow raise the dead we'll find out.

They aren't exceptions, just really hard to figure out. Time travel spells have been sought after according to Rumple since the beginning of the dark arts, but Zelena found out the right combination. The Laws of magic are just things you think you can't break.

Jafar and Amara's spell simply allowed jafar to change thought (the past, Alice and Jafar's dialogue seems to say this is how he could change the past), make someone think they love you (which was the same as Cora's spell) which was broken by TLK, and raising the dead, which we have some methods but no concrete ones yet.