@TheGoldenKey wrote:
I don’t think anyone had anything to do with other than Regina contacting the outside world and then having Gold procure a child for her. The fact that the child was Henry was inevitable as the curse has a mind of its own and knows what it needs to do. Magic simply begets magic. Emma is the product of magic and Henry is a bi-product. The curse instinctively drew them in. Just as August had no choice but to seek Emma out when she was with Neal. Just as Neal had no choice but to meet Emma and pair up with her. There is just no escaping a magical curse, that has a mind of its own as it is magical fate, and that is why, all magic comes with a price. Because the curse knows and reacts.
Rumple himself said it best. It was fate.
While I agree with some of the things you said, like it’s fate and magic begets magic, I think there is a much larger story to tell about this adoption, especially given A and E’s comments about how they’re saving it for S3. It seems to me that each time someone asks they say that it’s something they want to explore, which I think signals that there is more than just Regina finding a child in the real world. So while I do agree that the baby being Henry was fate, I think fate may have had some help.