Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-23906605-20131017110136/@comment-22525977-20131029052351

But if Neal stayed and told Emma about the curse and told her everything he knew about magic (not at once, obviously, but they do have ten years), she'd actually be a lot better prepared all around to face the curse than she was in canon because Henry, while a wonderful exposition fairy, was not actually very good at filling the mentor role because he's a ten-year-old.