Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-23906605-20131017110136/@comment-23871096-20131029060327

TNOandXadric wrote: 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. All this was what made the show awesome. And yeah... A grown man telling stubborn

Emma that she's a magical creature and the daughter of Snow White.

We all know what happened when August tried to tell her this.