Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-107.195.116.25-20130513023000/@comment-6905051-20130513064940

from Pilot in season1, there was this impression Henry was someone important. Regina had tried to get other kids before but none of them worked out because they were too old and too afraid of her. Henry came to her as a kid, was not at all afraid to stand up to her. In Pilot itself he rudely reminds Regina how he found his "real mom". He convinced someone as strong willed as Emma to come to SB, live the way she lived. He was instrumental in rejoining Mad Hatter and his daughter. He is remarkably mature for his age and seems has a gift for manipulating events/ making strategy. He is born to parents with history, adopted by a woman with History, yet navigates through everything in his own way.