Jafar his anger kept him alive after he was drowned to death.
I think Jafar’s mother was magical…and that ring. So he’s magical but delayed.
It’s like Xmen. you can live life not knowing you’re a mutant until you’re some sort of traumatic event as an adolescent
So I guess we can say magic is only for those special, for the main magic uses of ONCE are all unique and have shown off special qualities as far as I can tell. I might have missed something .
Yes but those who are not magical by birth CAN learn.
Snow is not magical but she can USE magic…she blew the ink off the pages to open the door for instance.
Ana, so far as we know, wasn’t born magical (because neither was Ella and they share the same father) but could learn once she had something to strive. Her lessons with Cora were even more woeful than Regina and Rumple’s early ones.