Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20170106065555/@comment-25926288-20170406202918

DatNuttyKid wrote: She also promised to work as hard as possible to figure out how to get rid of the protection spell in 6x13, which is implied to be what she's working on when Zelena attempts to return the Evil Queen. Granted, she was forced to immediately showdown with the Evil Queen and then began her research on the sleeping spell, but there also wasn't any apparent time for her to free Doolittle, so I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that she finished that research. (Or she might have had the EQ do it before leaving.)

Why would the symbols be gibberish? Wouldn't it be a much more interesting plot if he were writing in an important code that leads to the Zeus Ex MacGuffin that can slay the Evil Black Dragon Fairy Queen Princess of Darkness? This could even be early set-up for Season 7/the finale, especially if our new leading man is Adult Henry (which I'm doubting more and more as we go on, but still). It's not unreasoanble, but I read the scene as "I've tried to get rid of these townline protection spells forever. If I knew, I would have done it." So, I thought she just couldn;t do it with the stuff she had. Maybe she stole from Rumple (as that seems to be a thing people are getting away with now).

The symbols are gibberish in a real-life sense. Most times they use icelandic runes, futhark runes, or random Theban/Zodiac/Alchemy/Greek aphabet stuff. What Henry was writing was scribbles from a trivia worthy perspective. He may write something plot important, but what we;ve seen doesn't seem to be anything good. Maybe that's why the quill does all the writing for him. XD