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88.192.87.11 wrote: Your second point refers to that memory restore poition, right? Yeah I thought exactly the same thing. Totally agree with you Especially given the fact that Cora and Rumple didn't have any idea of how to create a memory restore potion or spell (both of them - Episode 212). And then - out of nowhere bringing August back gave The Blue Fairy the right idea. Come on, there have to be better solutions than that. I feel Belle lost her memory only to provide a new plot device, a bad one, in my opinion.

Hook's new crew may have a lot of fun together this autumn. I'm looking forward to that. Blue Fairy's magic is different than the one used by Rumple. Maybe that's why he can't create that kind of potion or spell?

You're right. It's possible that the potion required fairy magic instead. However, potion making has been something we've seen more often done by Mr. Gold/Rumple than the Blue Fairy./Mother Superior. I could be wrong but as far as I know the Blue Fairy never created a potion on screen before. At least I haven't seen her doing such a thing.

I also wonder, why written 'cloak spell' instruction (to keep  Storybrooke's existence in secrecy - just in case ) must come from Mr. Gold. It's said that the Blue Fairy is as powerful as he is (they're just using different 'sides' of magic) why can't she create a spell hiding Storybrooke from view? Gold created the town and as long as the curse worked the town was invisible for outsiders (besides Owen and Kurt who were in the town before it was even there). Is that why it has to be his magic to hide Storybrooke again?