Question: Didn’t ZoZo hold the dagger up himself in FTL when the parents where trying to stop the guards from taking their little girl I don’t remember it has been so long
No, Zoso wasn’t in possession of the dagger, the Duke was, which is how he was able to control Zoso. If Zoso had the dagger himself, he wouldn’t have been compelled to do the Duke’s bidding, and wouldn’t have needed Rumple to steal the dagger and stab him in order to be set free from what the Duke was making him do, and to be freed of the Dark One curse. Zoso held his hand in the air when performing the magic, but he didn’t have the dagger.