Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24264679-20151028042323/@comment-26160044-20151028093407

I personally think you are overestimating Regina's Power level. The Snow Queen was a lot more powerfull then Regina even though Regina knew a few more tricks in Dark magic then Ingrid. She was a naturally powerfull sorceress just like her two propheciced magical sisters Emma and Elsa. The Spell of Shattered Sight probably took a lot more magical power to cast then the dark Curse as it required most of the magic of three of some of the most powerfull sorceresses known in the realms to cast and i doubt that even if Regina would have siphoned Elsa and Emma's magic that she would have been able to cast it. My thoughts are that she couldnt turn the snow monster into anything because the magic used to create it was much stronger then her magic and it was also a kind of magic Regina had no experience with. And i always thought that when you have more magical power you can easily neutralise a less powerfull sorceress like Ingrid did with Regina by just raising her hand. For me that scene when Ingrid neutralised Regina she must have thought "wow she really is overestimating her power someone should put her in her place*

As for the light magic for that i have another theory about that. Remember when Zelena siphoned that light magic away from Emma with that cute reanimation scene with Emma and hook ? When Rumple trapped Ingrid with the dust of the urn to prevent her from intervening did you remember what he said ? Something in the area of "Magic doesnt just dissappear. So my thought is that when Emma lost her light magic the magic merely went to Regina. Then when Emma got her magic back the light magic left Regina again and went back to Emma.

Let me know what you think