Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25517595-20150330011154/@comment-24674051-20150331143516

Another thought (I started to post this elsewhere, and decided it was better posted here).

The Author rewrote that story. I think that, in this case, the Author did override Free Will. Snow's initial refusal to help Maleficent was true to Snow. But stealing the Egg was so Not Snow and Charming, it was completely out of character for either of them.

I think that may be where Emma actually comes in. The Author screwed with everyone's happy endings, maybe even going all the way back to Cora and Leopold. The Sorcerer can not change the book, but maybe he set things in motion once the Author was trapped (in fact, probably a little prior to trapping him) so that a "Savior" can come in and restore all of the Happy Endings, fix all of the mistakes the Author introduced. We know that the Sorcerer knew, beyond any doubt, that Emma would be the Savior, going back to the Snow Queen (He told Ingrid in the scroll that the savior would be Emma. there was NO ambiguiosness about that prophecy).