-The first time Emma used a dreamcatcher in season 2 she used light magic, didn’t she? But this time Regina says that using dreamcatcher magic/ putting spellings on dreamcatchers/whatever involves dark magic.
Well Rumpel gave it to her. And when she used it wasn’t it to find out who killed Archie? I don’t think at the time “It’s dark magic” would have been such a hang up because A) The situation B) Regina was still a user of dark magic and C) It was Rumpel’s object, not Emma’s. The fact that it is Dark Magic is probably a given like most things he probably owns.
Honestly, I don’t see how using an object that can view memories is necessarily dark magic. The memory theft part, sure, but let’s be real. I think that could be a spell of great use to a lot of us. But hey, what do I know?
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