Talk:The Fires of Idirsholas/@comment-5674726-20131126001344/@comment-5674726-20131128001456

''I would grant him the assumption that maybe Kilgharrah would spare Arthur and innocents since the dragon had always told Merlin that Arthur must live at all costs. Maybe Merlin thought that Kilgharrah would take revenge on Uther and was willing to let it happen in order to not risk his mother's life.''

He saw Kilgharrah attacking Camelot and heard him refuse to commit to not doing so. I'd expect a five year old of average intelligence to be able to see how that was going to end. Even if he assumed that Arthur was safe, he has to have known that there would be casualties besides Uther, unless he was so stupid that everybody who ever called him an idiot was actually overestimating his intelligence.