Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25551215-20160315233708/@comment-24674051-20160420195632

to be fair, the writers never really developed Greg and Tamara. We got very little backstory on Tamara, except for what we saw with August in "Selfless, Brave, and True". and all we really got on Greg/Owen was what was shown in "Welcome to Storybrooke". Plus the "Home Office" was really just a front organization for Peter Pan.

I don't think I'd necessarily want the show to do more with a legitimate "Home Office" Concept (which I imagine as more of an illuminati type group that really does want to either control or eliminate all magic in all realms), but it could make some great fiction on the side. The way that story (in my headcanon) goes is that the lands without magic are lands that are already controlled by the "Home Office" (I'll use that but it is not the same HO as we saw in season 2). The trace amounts of magic that remain in them are either HO members that control the magic, or rebels seeking to overthrow the HO. And both sides, in the lands controlled by the HO, would sell their "Magic" at high prices.

and in my Headcanon, the Dragon is one of the controlling members of the real HO, and has a fair amount of knowledge about the few magical creatures in the LWM, including Bae, Emma, Ingrid, and August.