User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Just a thought: Why did Hunith send Merlin to Camelot?/@comment-5674726-20121209014915/@comment-67.239.100.57-20121209045913

Exactly. You are so right, ReganX

This is one of the things people will say is a plothole when it is not. There are SO many things in "Merlin" that fans complain are plotholes when they are nothing of the kind. It's getting old.

Hunith very clearly says to Gaius, "My dear Gaius, I turn to you for I feel lost and alone and don't know who to trust... He needs a hand to hold, a voice to guide, someone that might help him find a purpose for his gifts."

Even if Hunith knew of a land where magic was welcome, which there was no reason for her to know (as you so clearly pointed out), what is she going to do? Send a young naive Merlin off to a strange place to be among strangers? She sends him to Gaius because she knew she could trust him to teach and guide Merlin. She couldn't trust anyone else.

So NO, fans, this is not a plothole!