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The Broken Queen wrote: The Portal of Doors does not have a door to the Land Without Magic, thus why the Land Without Magic cannot be accessed from a magical realm through the hat. Perhaps if you are traveling from the Land Without Magic to a magical place, the portal itself is a one-way trip and therefore bypasses the Portal of Doors. While I like this theory, it has holes in it. The reason the Land Without Magic couldn't be accessed was because it had no magic. By "Broken", that had changed thanks to Rumple (funny how he has a hand in all the c**p that happens in the next seasons, huh?). And yet, in "An Apple Red As Blood", Jefferson was not only able to reach into the past (something that Zelena and Jafar both had to break the laws of magic in order to fail to attempt) but he also reached into the Enchanted Forest without losing his arm if it was just a one-way trip. And as shown by both "Hat Trick" and "Broken", the portal the hat creates is pretty much a suctioning vaccuum.