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TrumpetofTheSwan wrote: Ok, I don't know if I'm getting what you're trying to ask perfectly here, but here's my answer to your question as I understand it.

I thought Mr. Gold picked Henry out for Regina, knowing all along who he was, in order to lure his mother the savior to town. It was all part of his plan.

As for how Henry got into town in the first place, I think that people actually could get in from the outside during the curse. What about that man and his son ( You know, the Robin and Roland precursors) who wandered into town and were subsequently kidknapped by Regina? Rumple didn't get his memory back until Emma came to town.

As they mentioned in Season 4, higher powers are watching over them and are the arbiters of fate. People couldn't get in from the outside, as seen when Owen and the Cops came back to see just a road and a forest. Storybrooke is like a small pocket dimension when it has a cloaking spell on it. Cloaking spells in Once seem to make it invisible but also intangible, pretty much removing it from the physical plane altogether unless it is broken or the requirements are me tot disrupt it.