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Kingfan22 wrote: What the Charming's did to lily was probably the most pointless act of evil in the shows history. I usually feel bad for villains or anyone else who do these things because typically there is a reason they're evil and or doing what they're doing but there was no point to this. you steal a baby because of who their mother is and what their mother does? so the baby doesn't deserve a chance to be good or happy. For all they know the baby could have grown up to be a great powerful hero like Emma could have became a great powerful villain. lets remember when snow first met Regina, the daughter of the queen of hearts, she was a good girl on the way to marrying the love of her life. Regina was also had no interest in magic same for Neal. I also am confused how they just assumed the baby was a dragon( as if that made it ok). lastly the killer of the whole thing even after they destroyed a family because they had to be certain their daughter would be good( even though there was nothing pointing to her being evil) the apprentice basically told them she might STILL turn evil if not raised right. the whole thing was pointless. Oh, boy.

If we know anything about the Charmings is that they would do anything to save their child. They put her through a wardrobe. Maleficient laid an egg. Babies are usually not born that way. Dragon theology tells us dragons are. If they were comparing the future of their baby to the future of a dragon baby, it makes sense. And, let's remember they were planning on returning the dragon egg, they didn't know that the apprentice was going to send the egg through the portal, let alone a baby.