@slurpeez108 wrote:
Also, I doubt Emma will want to practice magic once she discovers Regina’s innocence, since magic is what led Emma to doubt her instincts that Regina didn’t kill Archie. Emma already knows the price she paid for using magic was disrupting the détente that she and Regina discovered in co-parenting Henry at the end of 2×9.
Good point. Though if Emma had have just kept watching, she may have seen more that would have revealed it wasn’t Regina, so she may not put all the blame on magic, and will at least in part blame herself for having reacted so quickly. But yes, I’d say that she’d probably be questioning the reliability of magic, and would realise that it’s not an instant cure all for any problem. She’s lived in our world long enough to know that solutions don’t come that easy, and if they do, it’s probably too good to be true.
If anything, I believe Emma will try and keep Henry from Regina if Regina falls off of the no-magic bandwagon. The only reason I could see for Emma using magic would be to protect Henry from anyone like Cora or Regina using magic to get Henry. While Emma may use magic to protect her family from Cora, she likely won’t do so more than she absolutely must.
So if Henry wants to use it, just now and then, just to help people, and Emma forbids it, then it’s one of those, “do as I say, not as I do” situations, which could create animosity between them. It could even drive him to try it on the sly, which could lead to no good if he’s trying to figure it out himself. I wouldn’t envision him intentionally setting out to use magic for an evil purpose, but then, Rumple didn’t start out wanting to use magic for an evil purpose either. He wanted to save a family member and end a war, (Henry may end up in much the same situation if he wants to save Regina and end the battle that’s shaping up in SB). The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I also think she’s on to Mr. Gold, and won’t fall for his manipulations like Regina did. Emma isn’t vulnerable like Regina was, because Emma has her family.
Agreed, there’s no way that Emma will be as easy of a target as Regina was.
Also, when Nealfire enters the picture, he’s going to be dead set against anyone using magic. Bae/Neal knows better than anyone the price of using dark magic, since he paid for it the rest of life growing up as an orphan in a strange land. If Emma, Regina, or Rumple try to use magic with or around Henry, I think Neal could intervene and step up as a father to Henry who discourages magic.
Nealfire would certainly be against magic. That could create some interesting tension between him and Emma. Hadn’t really thought about that before, but now I wanna see it happen.