Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24766715-20140707235615/@comment-24674051-20140708163836

Edt997 wrote: Ruby Red Hood wrote: Oh yeah, well still, I think Glinda will be in SB. I think that part of the land she was in was probably sent there. "He outran the curse" makes it seem like he had a long way to go, but Snow and co made it to Glinda in just a few hours.

'''cora was able to avoid the first curse because she put up a shield to protect herself and hook. glinda seemed to be under some kind of protective spell in the EF which most likely shielded her from the second curse. i don't think she is in storybrooke if she was she would have tried to help defeat zelena or tried to train emma in light magic. '''

'''i never understood why regina was emma's teacher and regina could only train her in dark magic. because regina didnt know light magic. off topic  but it bothered me.'''

First, regarding reaching Glinda. Snow, David, and Regina reached the DOORWAY to Glinda relatively quickly, but that doorway was a portal to somewhere else in the EF (hence the change of scenery from one side of the door to the other). So it is quite conceivable that Glinda is still hidden in the EF somewhere, and not in SB. Which is where I think Glinda is at the moment, though with Zelena's demise it is possible that Glinda was freed to return to Oz, so she may have gone back there.

As for Regina teaching Dark Magic to Emma, if you think about it, at the time Emma asked Regina to train her, they had not yet found out that it had to be light magic to defeat her. All Emma wanted was to be trained so that she could be useful in conjunction with Regina. Emma was going to the 2 against 1 odds. (though with Rumple in the mix even Regina and Emma together would not be enough to oppose Zelena and Rumple). It wasn't until Snow's curse was broken that the need for light magic was discovered.

as for why Regina was the teacher, well, at the time she was the most powerful (and only) Magician available (Rumple was unavailable, and there was no one else with suitable magic ability).

And given how well Regina eventually did with light magic herself, she probably could have trained Emma in it had she known the need. She just didn't think she had it in her to actually USE light magic (an assumption that fortunately proved to be incorrect). The ability to train someone does not necessarily require an ability to perform what you are training (though it does help).