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Killian Jones wrote: Apparently the Apprentice's wand is more powerful than the Dark Curse, and so the people who came to this world via his portal door (Ingrid) or his red portal vortex (lily, cruella and ursula) are not dragged back by the undoing of the Dark Curse. Remember that his wand has "All the Light magic"! I really wished that Snow didn't interrupt him because that statement jsut seems totally wrong, unless Merlin hatted light magic users and drained their power into the wand.........

The Apprenitce's Wand can create portals to a LWM or any wolrd which effectively makes him as powerful as a portion of the Dark Curse.

The question that they just won't answer is what did they do during the missing year, but it doesn't really matter to the story.