Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150312220054/@comment-1894786-20151010020055

8Rob wrote: Eskaver wrote: Just a plot hole. I like to imagine that that didn't happen.

They didn't think it through because Belle and Snow would have changed and the story would be at least slightly different. Unless a wizard fixed it.... No. Snow didn't see Hook's face. Just his hook.

And she recognized the hook when she pulled the hook out of the sack in 2x04 (she gasped)

About Belle:

A wizard fixed.... A wizard called Rumple

He probably gave Belle a forgetting potion after she met Emma and Hook (while they were at the ball), just like he did with himself later in the episode OH MY GODS, that's right. Snow gasps when she sees the hook... I mean, I really highly doubt they had that planned that far in advance, but that fits so perfectly now.