Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25379261-20160516165235/@comment-24674051-20160728172103

Emma and Snow's use of the hat as a direct portal... maybe a partial goof, but I rather think that it has more to do with the fact that, since that hat was being used in a LWM setting (even though Magic had been restored to SB), it just was set to return to the last known land with Magic that it had been in, which would be the FTL. Neither the hat, nor the room that the hat generally leads to, has a door to the LWM, so there was not way for the Magic to compensate for that.

Weak theory, admittedly, and has probably as many holes as the show does.