Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4623180-20120919141837/@comment-37017073-20180925214953

A lot of people seem to think that Merlin should have told Morgana because then she would've helped him with his destiny. But that presupposes that Morgana would have been satisfied with Merlin's slow-and-steady-wins-the-race approach to bringing back magic, and honestly, I don't think she would have been. Not for long, anyway. When it comes down to it, she just doesn't share Merlin's optimism, nor his idealistic nature. It wouldn't be enough for her to go on living her normal life with nothing but the vague hope that someday an opportunity might come along for them to change things for the better.

Now don't get me wrong, I do think that Morgana would have been grateful for Merlin's friendship and understanding to start with, and that she probably would have been supportive and done what she could to help him at that point. In fact, she probably would have been pretty gung-ho about it. But I also think that sooner or later, (probably sooner rather than later given her quick temper), she would have grown frustrated by their lack of tangible progress, and that that frustration ultimately would have left her just as open to manipulation by the likes of Morgause and Alvarr as loneliness did. In this case she probably would have tried to convert Merlin to their thinking rather than resorting to outright betrayal, but Morgana has always been a bit on the sanctimonious side, and as such it's really not difficult for me to imagine her taking an if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us attitude toward Merlin should he have failed to be persuaded.