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Dan Fox wrote: Yeah. I really think she had to come from a great line of magicians. Though Cora didn't have any magic when she gave birth to Zelena, she learned magic eventually so she had some inside of her. I think her maternal grandmother was a powerful sorceress. Like Morgana Le Fay.

I feel like the writers still have a lot of explaining to do as far as how or why a person has magic potential. Is that a genetic thing? Is it environmental? What makes someone capable of magic? Hopefully they get more specific about how it happens.