Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130413094642/@comment-5674726-20130419061353

''Wrong Hands I feel is more like malicious intention. Let's say it goes to someone like Morgana, she can do great harm with it.

Merlin does not count as right or wrong hand anyway. Since anything which is magical, by default, comes under his ability to use it.

Had uther known what the sword is, he could have used it to kill Kilgharrah, I think that was the great dragon's primary concern.''

Kilgharrah was very specific about only Arthur wielding the sword. If there's only one right person to wield it, everybody else is wrong by definition. As for Merlin, being able to use an object of magic doesn't mean that he should use it; look at Morgana and her bag of magical tricks. Being physically capable of using a weapon, magical or otherwise, doesn't mean that he's not going to do evil with it.

Where the dragons are concerned, isn't Uther supposed to have killed the other dragons? I thought that he made a choice to keep Kilgharrah alive and imprisoned, even though he could have killed him if he wished to do so. He wouldn't have needed a sword forged in a dragon's breath.