Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26385535-20150511060338/@comment-27213286-20160201174900

Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: MoonlitShadowsoftheHumanSoul wrote: Home Office was just Pan. They explained that. And a good plot point would be....how the freak is Hook getting resurrected? Because not bringing back the dead is the only rule of magic they haven't broken. Oh, they've broken it plenty. Try watching the spin-off. Actually forget the spin-off. Charming, Rumple, and Zelena have all "died" at one point, but were brought back. As for Hook coming back, it's easy, they are going to save him in the Underworld, which actually fits with actual Greek Myths, so that doesn't bother me at all. The fact is that you can stretch the others though. Charming wasn't dead, but in a death-like state and would have truly died if his body decayed. Rumple was a glitch in the system because he has a chain of immortality around him and the Darkness must continue or be destroyed which neither happened so he was tossed in the Underworld temporarily until he was ressurected. Zelena never died and simply her soul fled her body and traveled back in time.

The only one of the 4 rules of magic they have broken is the "you can't change the past" rule. They have never made anyone fall in love, they have never brought anyone back from hte dead (as Eskaver explains above), and they have countless of times proven that all magic does indeed come woth a cost. Those are the only rules of magic that exist in the show and the one they did break took alot to be able to break it. As for Jafar in the spin-off he temporarily changed the laws of magic by using the powers of three genies along with his own powers to perform a powerful spell. He didn't break the laws of magic because while the spell was in effect there were no laws of magic to be broken.