Board Thread:Show-Related Questions and Answers/@comment-187.7.61.155-20130503184021/@comment-5355525-20130614022250

Applegirl wrote: But how can we know she still retained her magic to create a memory spell during the curse? Of course, I'm only speaking hypothetically if you mean to say she erased or altered certain people's memories during the curse? Even Mr. Gold's dagger had no power during the curse, and only after he brought magic back was it possible to actually use his powers.

It's always been my understanding that she protected her memories from the Dark Curse before it hit. While making preparations for the Dark Curse's arrival, in FTL. I too, have always believed that IF it wasn't Rumple who wrote the Book, then it was the Blue Fairy who commissioned it from Geppetto and Jiminy as final preparations in FTL. It would also explain who taught August/Pinocchio how to create and bind books the old fashioned way. (You're not going to find those methods being taught anywhere here today)

No one is claiming anyone had magic during the Dark Curse. Just that Mother Superior had her memories the entire time which she protected back in FTL when she still had magic.

Mother Superior did not have to leave Storybrooke once she discovered that Pinocchio had escaped the Dark Curse. Remember, she was under the impression that Geppetto had followed her instructions when she told Geppetto that the deal was OFF!...And that Pinocchio was NOT to go through the wardrobe and that Snow White was to accompany the Infant Emma in that second spot, as Emma had arrived early and would need her mother to survive and become their Savior.

So I'm guessing it was shocking for Mother Superior/Blue Fairy to see Mary Margret in Storybrooke, when she was under the impression that Snow had gone with Emma through the Enchanted Wardrobe, like she told Geppetto to do!... Not difficult, after that, to figure out "who" did go through the wardrobe,.... and also at that point realizing that Pinocchio would have escaped the Dark Curse as well. She now knew that she had a 7yr old boy and an infant that could be dead already. She knew she had to find a way to help. August would be her outside contact who would be able to come and go without anyone noticing as they, including Rumple/Mr.Gold, would still be under the fog of the Dark Curse for the next 28 years. Mother Superior did not have magic for those 28 years, but did have her memories and did know of the Dark Curse before Rumple did,... and could have explained to August how to find Storybrooke. That it was just cloaked from the outside world,... and totally penetrable if he just kept going,....like he did when he drove into Storybrooke and met Emma and Henry. We've still not been told what Regina meant by her comment to Emma: " There's something about him,..something familiar. " I'll even go with the Blue Fairy/MotherSuperior as to having helped steer the infant Henry to Storybrooke with Augusts help on the out side.

The Blue Fairy is also the only other person that actually knew where and when Baelfire had escaped (Our World w/o Magic - 1983) as she had to send the would be savior to that exact time and place, BEFORE the Dark Curse was unleashed.