Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26261153-20150716195032/@comment-91424-20150716224000

But he did tell Emma that only those who used the portal could reopen it. Yes, he was referring to the time portal, but this piece of dialogue suggests that the magic can only be recreated by the one who wielded it in the first place. And Rumple was not the one who opened up the portal that Bae went though.