Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5154975-20140830155800/@comment-24674051-20141029183804

Totally agree. All we know for certain is that the Snow Queen knows Emma from the past, and based on the little clip of video, She and Emma were together at the same foster house. As for the timing, the meeting between Emma and Auntie Vanilla occurred after Emma's encounter with Lily. So, while what you say is true regarding the 14 or so years of Emma's back story between the wardrobe and Lily, Snow Queen is (as far as we know) after Lily, at least as far as the one encounter we do know about.

Being together at the same foster home implies that the Snow Queen was either Emma's foster Mom (given Emma's age, likely the LAST foster parent that she had), or her assigned social worker. If she is Emma's Social worker, she probably interacted with Emma prior to Lily. And when she wiped Emma's memory, Emma would probably have forgotten Lily as well in this case. so the evidence is not strong for SQ to be Emma's social worker, meaning she was probably her Foster Mom, or at least this was her first encounter with her.

That will be an interesting flashback when they show it (and I feel confident that for either Emma or SQ this one will be shown, and that interaction seems like it would be too important not to touch on).