Board Thread:What If?/@comment-173.245.80.12-20140903054558

This was,  so far,  Merlin's best chance to prove Arthur that magic was a force you couldn't just get rid of, that magic was contained within everything in this world, that it was a force that could be used for good and shouldn't have been banned nor have its practitioners hunted to death in the first place. This could have changed everything, and Merlin's 80 year old  appearance  could have meant a good omen before Arthur's eyes.

Why, then, did Gaius have to hide the fact that Morgana had had something to do with the spell not working? He could have just shown the chain to Arthur when he was examining Uther's dead body, not let him believe he had made the wrong choice by seeking help from the old Wizard. Yes, it implied the realization that there probably was a traitor among them, but his duty was to support the king and the king-to-be prince!  