Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4623180-20120919141837/@comment-5674726-20121108001649

I think that Merlin should have told her but, even if he was reluctant to confide in her about his magic, he could still have been a friend to her, somebody she could talk to about her magic when she needed to. Instead, despite being told by Gaius that he needed to look after Morgana, he barely interacts with her between her return from the Druids and when he and Arthur returned to Camelot to find everybody but Morgana asleep.

Morgana told two people in Camelot about her magic and ended up with one of them quite distant towards her while the other was telling her that she was imagining things and drugging her in an attempt to help. I think that this isolation, combined with the effects of childhood teachings that held that magic was evil and corrupted everybody who wielded it, led her to be a little too quick to trust other people with magic. She needed to believe that they were good. Having somebody else with magic at Camelot, or even somebody with whom she could speak freely about it when she needed to, would mean that she wasn't as isolated or as afraid.

Had Merlin told her about Kilgharrah's prediction that Arthur would restore magic, Morgana would have been able to see a light at the end of the tunnel once Uther's reign is over. As it was, while I can't see her doubting that people who were falsely accused of using magic would be better off once Arthur was King, she wouldn't have the same faith that his Camelot would be a safe place for people who have magic, not when he was an active participant in hunting out magic users during Uther's reign.