Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20151109020125/@comment-1894786-20151112180726

Anubis16 wrote: I just thought of another idea, what if they do get the darkness out of Emma, but then a new Dark One arises, Lord Voldemort. I know the Harry Potter story is already well known, but it seemed like Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin were already written when Isaac became the author, so what if in Once the story of Harry Potter is written but it's happening right now. Also, if Voldemort would be the new Dark One then Harry could be the new "Merlin" I don't know. Maybe if that were to happen most of it could take place in London, our London, outside of Stroybrooke. Every single story in this show was written before the actual show's events, barring Peter Pan. Pan and Hook are around 200 years old while the play itself is like... 110? The bulk of the show's events happen in the 1970's and 1980's, when all of these stories were not only written but adapted into movies and stuff.

The only two stories that happened decades before their LWM counterparts are Frozen and Brave. Frozen and Brave were 2013 and 2012, respectively, and yet both had their events unfold in the 70's in the Enchanted Forest. (If not the late 60's for Frozen... We still don't know exact times for ANYTHING...) And even then Frozen, is based off of the Snow Queen, written in the 1800's and whose events unfolded in the... 1950's in the show?

So Harry Potter (which canonically happens from 1991 to 1998 according to JK Rowling) happening in the EF in 2013 (where we are present day) would be really weird. Though Tamara, Greg and the Dragon did say that magic has crossed into our world before. So maybe a secret civilization of magic-users hiding out in the British countryside inside of a castle would be pretty fun to explore on the show.