Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24942479-20170609093120

From this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MiriNmtvqk rumple states that it was the Merlins magic that was strong enough to bring the snow queen to this realm, but as we see it was actually the apprentice. How the apprentice can make a portal but the dark one cannot is beyond me. Do you think that somehow Merlin has gifted some of his magic to the apprentice to make him live so long (over 500 years!!) and enabled him to open portals to the LWM. 