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Rubelle wrote: Cora had a highly ambitious and evil inclined heart, Rumple just took advantage o it.

What wonders me, why did Rumple design his curse in a way that someone else had to cast it and someone else has to break it. He could have easily kept himself out of the ambit of the curse and remembered everything and the breaking of the curse need not have been through true loves kiss. Also he could easily design it such a way that a terrible sacrifice as the one Regina had to make would not be necessary. As it is, in the curse, rumple too had the option of bringing things along for a rainy day. He had an assortment of things from BF's wand, to axe of dwarves, to candle that Cora gave to MM,to wallhanger from Emma's crib, means the curse was flexible with him to some extent.

Does that mean, magic, even something as strong and as dark as the one being cast by Dark One had some limitations. Inability to restore life is one of it. What else? The whole thing about the Dark Curse creating a hole in someone that cannot ever be filled is described by the following quote: '''Magic always comes with a price. '''It didn't matter that Rumple created the curse so that it would not create a hole in whomever cast it, because the laws of magic would have demanded something else.

If the cursed did not create a hole in someone's heart (metaphorically speaking, I supose) then it would have done something else and seeing how impredictable magic is in Storybrooke the price could have been something so much worse. This way everybody wins minus Regina.