User blog comment:Freyamerlin/I want a Season 6/@comment-5995315-20130117025718

"...but the point was to make magic free so he didn't have to hide, and he will still need to hide..."

Gwen knew Merlin's magic, so he doesn't have to hide it. But that was never Merlin's real  concern in the first place, and in any case he didn't return to Camelot  once Arthur died.

Merlin wanted Arthur to know he had magic, but only because, as he said,  he wanted Arthur to know who he really was. In other words, he wanted Arthur to love him for who he was. That happened in the finale. But Merlin also made it dramatically clear that who he was was a Arthur's servant,  not Arthur's magician. That was why Arthur responded with, "I don't want you to change. I want you always to be you (meaning "my servant")."

Even though he was a warlock, Merlin's obsession was Arthur. That was why he never took up the Free Magic banner with much enthusiasm. Perhaps the Disir's judgment, then, was really against Merlin, not Arthur.