Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24138799-20131128190230/@comment-4839682-20131205003143

TVDaddictneedstogetlife wrote: Yeah I understand that. I was trying to figure out WHY Shadow was pretending to be Belle. Neverland magic can only be used by children not adults. So Rumple can't use it. Could be any number of reasons.

However, we've already seen that Neverland magic is not just confined to children, Malcolm was able to use it.