I feel that logic is faulty.
Henry should lead with the blacking out because he should know that otherwise he’ll be on the receiving end of some mean bullying/snark, whatever you want to call it? Why? Maybe we could simply go for *nice* off the bat? It’s a mild case of victim blaming. Henry has taken on the burden of trying to save everyone and he’s doing his very best (he’s 13, remember? And shouldering something that no 13 yr old, or heck, even any previous author, had to shoulder) and he should be considering the feelings of how the man who doomed them all the Hell in the first place should feel before he speaks?
And again, Hook does it again next week in the latest sneak peek. There is a time when the snarky comments are simply coloring your character in a way that’s simply…not funny