Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6003903-20130503175519

So we have all seen characters pay dearly for using magic through out the series and as it is known magic always comes with a price; and we will be finding out that exact price at the end of  season 2. I theorize that the exact price of magic is love or the thing you love most/value above all else. For example to gain his son, the price Rumple had to pay was Belle's memory. Hook was merely the catalyst. To save her child from Rumple,  Cinderella had to give up Thomas. And Snow who valued her good heart  had to darken that to kill Cora - which I still don't think we've seen the full price payed for by the way. Everytime a character uses magic they have to give up something they love. The Price of Magic is love, it is the age old choice between love or power. That is why True Love is the strongest magic of all. In a way it is a metaphor for the battle between good and evil. 