Morgana
Morgana's first episode had her at first be sympathetic for a poor woman losing her son, then get angry at Uther forcing her to celebrate, and then for the rest of the episode focus on how much she hates (alright, despises, but it will develop) Arthur, who had nothing to do with it, then turn up at the feast smirking. Wow. Way to plot out your character's entire storyline in the first episode.
To start things off, the first season. Morgana starts out extremely nice. She doesn't discriminate against magic users and non magic users, and she helps whoever we can. She saves a Druid boy. She goes with Merlin to save Merlin's village. She stands up to Uther for his crimes.
But then "To Kill a King" rolls around. The entry in the trope page there pretty much tells us all we need to know: Morgana starts out feeling sorry for Gwen, but afterward she turns the situation into an attack against her father and her. Do we ever see her comfort Gwen in this episode, or feel guilt that her own actions partially caused Gwen's father's death? No, and that's extremely telling on where her motives lie. She stops not when Uther apologizes, but when he mentions Tom. She's gotten off track, she realizes that, and for a moment it saves her.
Around the second season, Morgana discovers she has magic. Suddenly, she doesn't know who to trust. She confides in Gaius, who ignores her and pushes her away. When she talks to Merlin, Merlin is noncommittal, but at least he gives her a way to the druids. She feels at home and safe for the first time after a week of paranoia, and then she's being told she has to leave. Her self-centrism comes out, combined with her own trauma, and she's willing to let people die if she doesn't have to leave.
Her It's All About Me attitude is brought even further into light as she becomes insecure and paranoid about her magic. In a moment of desperation, she sells out Gaius to the witchfinder to keep him away from her. Despite the fact that she knows Merlin is there for her, she never goes to him. She isolates herself from all her friends, wondering whether or not they'd turn her in to Uther. When she rediscovers magical people, she's so distant she's willing to let all her former friends be casualties in the war to come. And then there's The Fires of Idirsholas.
Morgana, now focused completely on herself, literally falls in Morgause's arms when Morgause tells her how she can make things safe for her. She gets infected with a magical plague that begins to kill everyone. And then Merlin promises not to tell, and she tells him he's a good friend. Through this entire episode, it slowly begins to sink into her what she's done. She's chosen a complete stranger over a trusted friend. She's brought a plague to Camelot that is killing everyone she loves. She's about to snap out of it, and Merlin is forced to poison her. Every suspicion she had in the beginning is confirmed, the friend she could trust has betrayed her, and Morgause takes her away.
By the third season, we can see the results of Morgause's work. She's willing to kill Uther because he disowned her, never mind the fact that she's a bastard child and she's much better off as an adopted one. She may claim she's doing all for the sake of her own kind, but what does her reign in Camelot achieve? Nothing. Merlin even calls her out on it, pointing out that attacking the city with magic will just incite more hatred, and her response. "You don't have magic, how can you hope to understand?" is her new philosophy, laid out bare. No one except Morgause can understand her, and Morgause gets smashed into a wall by Merlin.
By the fourth season, she's lost Morgause. Everyone in her life is tools now, and her vendettas have gone from partially petty to entirely petty. She wants the throne of Camelot, and she wants Gwen off it. That's it. Nothing about her people at all. She might claim she wants the throne for her people, but all of her reign is making Camelot bow before her. She disposes of Agravaine, who has genuinely been a friend to her and has done essentially all her work for her. And moreover, her insistence on the destruction of Emrys. Does it ever cross her mind that he's a fellow sorcerer? That the future is not set in stone? No. He threatened her, and so he must be destroyed.
Fifth season to update when it finishes. Morgana has been held captive for two of the three year time gap, and has a motive shift from getting the throne to getting revenge on those who persecute magic. She's got a dragon at her side, has allied with someone, and continues her petty vendetta against Gwen.
Merlin
While he never has a Face–Heel Turn, Merlin changes around quite a lot through the series.
First series, we get introduced to an idiot, careless, clumsy teenage boy with magic. He never thinks things through, which is established from the very first episode. Yeah, you moron, punch the knight who quite obviously has more combat training than you. You can totally accuse a knight of magic, because it's not like peasants don't tend to get listened to. And of course leaving your freaking poultice behind isn't going to cause trouble. Sure, he's a good guy, but just moronic.
Second season, cue Trauma Conga Line. Let's start off by almost getting Gaius killed. Then let's have Arthur go so far into Heroic BSoD that Merlin is forced to lie to him about sorcerers and set his feelings about them back even more to protect him. Then let's give him a girlfriend. Give him a way out of Camelot. And then let's kill her. And then let's have the Dragon manipulate him, Morgana betray him, and his father die while all the people in Camelot dying are his fault. Can you name one thing that could make this worse?
Third season, he's had a year to recover, and he's become much more cynical, as you'd expect. When Morgana turns, he doesn't angst about it like he would have last season. He tries to talk Morgana down, rather emotionally, but when she shows that's she's chosen her side, it's over for her. He admits to feeling sad about her, and regretful that she's become that way, but ultimately she's an opponent and he treats her as such. He nearly kills her in The Crystal Cave and regrets it, but only acquiesces because of everyone else suffering. He still feels for her, but it's largely Sympathy for the Devil. It's subtly done, but Merlin of Season 3 is a lot more cynical and much colder in the way he treats his enemies. A lot of people point out that even before he started to get darker, he killed people without regret. Since this is the Middle Ages, we're just calling it Deliberate Values DissonanceFourth season, Merlin gets to shine in other areas than saving the kingdom from monsters over and over again as he becomes Arthur's unofficial advisor. Over and over again, he proves much smarter than Arthur, and what makes this different from other seasons is that, while he won't admit it, Arthur actually acknowledges it. The entire season is basically Arthur vs. Morgana, but it's more Merlin vs. Agravaine, as Arthur spends most of his time trying to find his footing, and Morgana spends her time concocting overly complicated and entirely petty plans. Agravaine and Merlin are the real opponents here, and it shows throughout the season. Merlin spends the entire season with a mole on the team, and gradually starts to realize why having a mole is a bad idea regardless of their good publicity.
And then the fourth season finale. It's Merlin at his darkest, and not just killing Agravaine, although that is a big part of it. Merlin has always had the potential to be a great Magnificent Bastard (manipulative, smart, knows things no-one else knows), and yet never really tried it. In this episode, he gets to go all out like he never has before. Good Is Not Soft, and boy is it chilling. Sure, it's not the most impressive bit of magic but he kills six men just by flicking his eyes. Morgan's right to call him The Dreaded. Then he plays Arthur and virtually all of Camelot like a well-tuned violin by carefully orchestrating the sword in the stone, sneaks into Morgana's bedroom and strips her of her powers, and then just smiles as she realizes she can do nothing. He controls everything in this episode, from the heroes to the villains, and all while making it look like none of it was his work.
Season 5 to update when it finishes. From what we've seen, he's stressed about Aithusa changing alliances, Mordred is the mole this time and Merlin can't just make him back down because his secret's at stake, he's flirting with the idea darker magic and he's become much more independent of his mentors.

Quite a few viewers want the magic users who fight against Camelot to win because they have justifiable reasons, and Arthur while honorable and sympathetic arguably does not measure up to what he's promised to be.

Morgana and Morgause in are curious examples. Morgana was presented as a good-natured and sometimes heroic character for the first two seasons, but made an abrupt Face–Heel Turn between Seasons 2 and 3, returning essentially as a pantomime villain and without a trace of the original Morgana. As such, fans rooted for her because a) they hoped she would eventually be redeemed, and b) the writers appeared to have forgotten that she was previously good. Morgause got this because she was just so dang cool. Fans also leapt on the Season 2 episode where she tried to kill Uther by putting everyone else in Camelot to sleep. However, they also forgot that she had attempted to manipulate Arthur into murdering him in her previous appearance and that she was clearly trying to kill Uther for her own selfish desires rather than the good of the kingdom.

Cendred, whom Morgause teams up with is depicted somewhat sympathetically in the series. He seems to be a decent ruler who (unlike Camelot) can muster a huge army and is willing to retreat when it's clear the battle's lost. His relationship with Morgause is sweet and he only loses because of trusting her. Some fans found that they wished he had won.

King Uther The man hates magic due to the fact that it killed his wife, and his genocide of all those who practice magic, no matter how benevolent, is seen as terrible. And yet, most the time the threats against Camelot are entirely magical in nature (though in turn, many of Camelot's magical enemies are striking against Uther out of vengeance of what he's done to them). It's a vicious circle

This is true of any villain of the week. In virtually every case, Uther's genocidal tyranny is what drives their attack. Several of them make the entirely legitimate point that killing Uther would resolve every problem Merlin faces. The basic continuity of the show is so lopsided towards the idea that Uther is an existential threat to Merlin and that if he simply chose not to save Uther his life would improve dramatically, that the show has almost always a Kick the Dog moment where the villain of the week decides to commit genocide against the entire kingdom. Often there is no motivation for this sudden genocidal impulse other than giving Merlin a licence to save Uther.

Other times, Uther has to make tough decisions about how to rule, and though he's often portrayed to be in the wrong, it's not difficult to see his point when he refuses to help a small village in a neighboring kingdom because sending armed knights in to help might be construed as an act of war, or when he cuts off supplies from the lower towns during a famine because he needs what little food is left to feed the knights and thus maintain Camelot's safety.

That first one falls through in the Season 2 finale, when it's revealed that while he was unwilling to risk war on account of a peasant village getting wiped out, he was willing to send soldiers in order to exterminate the last dragonlord, who at this point was completely powerless, was outside his kingdom, and if anything had only helped him. Balinor's initial willingness to let Camelot get wiped out is Disproportionate Retribution, but can you honestly blame him?

The basis for Morgana's Face–Heel Turn - Merlin poisoning her in "The Fires of Idirsholas" - is entirely Merlin's fault. Morgana is the source of the spell that's keeping everyone in Camelot asleep, but she doesn't know this. Morgause knocked her unconscious without telling her what she was going to do. Morgana is clueless about what's happening, and Merlin betrays her trust to trick her into drinking poison. He really had no good reason not to tell her she had to die for the spell to break (if he wanted to keep his cover, he could easily make up a story to explain how he knew). He just believed the dragon's word that she was evil and poisoned his friend.

Merlin gets a lot of this regarding Morgana in Season 2. Other characters tell him she's not to be trusted - even though she's a scared and confused young girl who doesn't know what's happening to her. He considers revealing his magic to her to help her deal with her own and...he just doesn't. Because the dragon says she shouldn't be trusted. Morgana nearly murdering Uther doesn't stand because Merlin has killed his enemies multiple times. So rather than trying to help a friend, Merlin decides to save his own skin. If he weren't the protagonist, these actions would make him the villain.

And in the Season 2 finale, his sympathetic status in that episode was somewhat diminished by the fact that he had just deliberately released a dragon who then explicitly killed hundreds of innocent people, yet the majority of his angst in that episode revolved around his dad. Instead of the fact that he'd, again, caused the foreseeable deaths of hundreds of innocent people.

By today's standards, Uther is a ruthless tyrant. By medieval standards, he would have been positively benevolent (especially compared to the likes of Cenred). Lampshaded in-show in To Kill The King. Merlin says that Uther is a horrible king for executing everyone he disagrees with, while Gaius points out that Uther ended a civil war and brought peace and stability to the land

Destiny completely ruins Merlin's, Arthur's, and Morgana's lives, and Gwen, The Unchosen One is the one to free magic and unite the kingdoms in a golden age. Every single bad thing in the series short of The Great Purge happens due to Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, and the only good things that result are due to people ignoring what's expected from them and just focusing on doing what's right and reasonable.
On a similar note, another Accidental Aesop that can be drawn from the finale is: "if you sit around and just wait for destiny to happen, it'll never actually happen."

Morgana many fans (including Katie McGrath herself) don't consider her evil, but rather anything from a Well-Intentioned Extremist to just plain Ax-Crazy. However, given what the writers and directors have her do, it would seem they want the audience to consider her a full-blown villain. Whether or not her significant Freudian Excuse (living in constant terror of Uther, watching his genocide of those who practise magic and Merlin's betrayal) is an adequate justification for her actions (which include the needless deaths of innocent civilians, her horrendous treatment of Gwen and excessive smirking) is a matter of debate.

The Guards of Camelot often appear so utterly useless. It's gotten the point where it's gone beyond simple passive aggression to looking like they actively let the villains of the week in because they're hoping Uther will be killed.

Arthur, at least in regards to how he treats Merlin. A lot of fans think that either he already knows Merlin is a warlock, or he at suspects that he is and is in denial. On the other hand, there's the question of whether he really deserves to be king, as he needed help to draw the sword from the stone, has been easily manipulated throughout his entire kingship, and doesn't seem to realize that a crisis is the worst time to go into Heroic BSoD.

Kara. Deranged terrorist who remorselessly kills people and deserves to be executed, or noble freedom fighter who goes bravely to her death rather than renounce her beliefs?

As of the finale, there are several "Kilgharrah was a giant troll" theories floating about.

Was Merlin truly in love with Freya or did he want to help her because, subconsciously, he saw a chance in her to escape the extreme pressure and stress of his destiny? If he left with Freya and dedicated his life to protecting her, he'd be free of his crushing responsibilities to the kingdom and would be with one of the few people he could openly practice magic with. So did he really almost leave for love, or was Merlin just too honourable to simply run away and abandon Arthur and believe that, with Freya, he was both doing the right thing and getting an excuse to run out on his destiny?

Kilgarrah essentially is responsible for every evil thing Morgana does in the series. His prejudice towards her leads to Merlin doubting her - when he has no reason to. The fact that she's so alone in Camelot when she realises what's happening to her is why she trusts Morgause in the first place. If Merlin hadn't listened to the dragon, chances are Morgana's Face–Heel Turn would not have even happened.

Did Morgause ever feel anything for Morgana? Or did she see her as a pawn in her schemes just like she did Arthur? We've seen that Morgause can lure people in with a Honey Trap just as she did to Cenred - and she killed him as soon as she had no further use of him. She seems to feel some affection for her sister, but if she ran out of use for Morgana or the latter had a Heel–Face Turn - would Morgause have turned on her just as easily?

Uther Took a Level in Kindness as the series went on. While the writers may have tried to avoid making his enemies Unintentionally Sympathetic - it's possible that Uther the Blood Knight of a tyrant was who he was in his youth, especially over the death of Igraine. He could have in fact softened over the years due to fatherhood and maturity. Notable is a seen in "The Coming of Arthur", where Morgana has the soldiers open fire on civilians to get the knights to swear loyalty to her. Uther is appalled that she would attack innocents, and Morgana fires back that it was no different to his pursuit of magic users. Uther looks very guilty, suggesting he did feel some remorse for what he did in his younger days.

Kilgarragh! While he does give Merlin advice, it's nearly always in riddles, and he is a selfish, arrogant Jerkass, who could well be said to be responsible for many of the characters' Face-Heel-Turns.

Mordred, who, in this version, is played by a child. We're supposed to view Mordred as a Creepy Child because the show plays ominous music over extreme close-ups of his large blue eyes, but all that's played out on screen is a kid who's been hunted, persecuted, and had everyone he's ever loved killed by the people who are generally considered "the good team". He uses his magical powers to kill a group of knights advancing on him with swords drawn, clearly preparing to kill him - this was apparently meant to prove to the audience that he's evil incarnate, even though the good guys make self-defensive kills all the time. When Mordred reappears as a young adult in Season 5, the results are...muddled. He saves Merlin and Arthur's lives more than once and proves his loyalty to them, yet Merlin insists on seeing him as evil to the point of twice leaving him to die (even choosing to encourage Arthur to continue persecuting magic users rather than save Mordred). When Mordred's Face–Heel Turn finally comes, it's because Arthur has the woman he loved executed. Understandable but perhaps unfair, since she had tried to murder Arthur and he was prepared to show her mercy if she had shown any sign of wanting peace. (Although Merlin didn't help by abruptly deciding the best way to reconcile Arthur and Mordred was to foil Mordred's attempts to take her away from the area peacefully.) In the end, Mordred dies after less than two episodes as a Type II Anti-Villain, during which he only really qualifies as a villain because he's on Morgana's side and shows clear distaste at her more ruthless acts.

Morgana in the first two series. What she has done is no worse than what Merlin has done to his own kind, including her, yet he is viewed as the hero and she the villain. Like Mordred, at first she is only a villain because Merlin believed the dragon when he said she was.

Morgause, who doesn't really do anything particularly villainous, and some of her actions even heroic, like putting the entire city to sleep to assassinate Uther without actually killing any innocents. Season 3 does damage control by showing her committing much more evil acts - including eventually killing Cenred simply because she no longer needed him.

Aithusa was confirmed to be an evil character by Word of God but never actually did anything evil after hatching. Although the white dragon was a bad omen in the mythology, Aithusa was pretty much a dropped plot point.

Merlin blindly takes orders from the morally ambiguous Kilgharrah gets more and more exasperating at the series goes on. Among other things, the dragon holds back on vital information that nearly results in Merlin’s mother’s death, guns for the deaths of Mordred and Morgana before they’ve actually done anything wrong (and whose condemnation of them partially results in them becoming the antagonists that he initially warned Merlin against) and who at one point lays waste to Camelot once he’s freed from his chains, killing at least seventy-six people, and even taking a near-fatal swoop at Arthur.

Now, this wouldn’t be Moral Dissonance if Merlin acknowledged all this and cut ties with the dragon, but the bizarre thing is that no matter what Kilgharrah says or does, Merlin (and the narrative) continues to treat Kilgharrah as a font of wisdom and good advice. Even when his prophesies are flat-out contradicted by events, or when he clearly manipulates Merlin into doing something against his better instincts (which always leads to disaster) it’s simply ignored by Merlin, who continues to trust that Kilgharrah gives him sound information and guidance, calling him "old friend" on more than one occasion.

Despite all of Kilgharrah’s prophesies that Arthur would be The Good King who lifts the ban on magic and allows everyone to live in peace and harmony – he’s not. Merlin and Arthur never actually get around to legalizing magic, much less integrating magic-users back into society, rendering all of Kilgharrah’s prophesies/Merlin’s efforts null and void. What we end up with is a hero who – instead of fighting the oppressive, genocidal regime he lived in – spent ten years actively supporting it, eliminating any threats to it, and protecting the two people who enforced it, in the hopes that one day things would get better simply because a manipulative, deceitful dragon told him it would. Since it doesn’t (at least not under Arthur’s reign, it’s confirmed by Word of God that Guinevere handled things much better after Arthur’s death), then all of Merlin’s methods in protecting Arthur and Camelot’s anti-magical stance are thrown into a highly questionable light. This includes manipulating people, consistently lying to loved ones and keeping back vital information, making crucial decisions on behalf of other people without their knowledge or permission, killing in order to keep things a secret, regularly throwing fellow magic-users under the proverbial bus, unleashing a powerful magical force that kills dozens of innocent people, using magic to brainwash people into acting against their will (and deriving enjoyment from it), making pre-emptive strikes against individuals who have yet to threaten them in any way, murdering in cold blood, and remaining single-mindedly devoted to a dubious cause on the insistence of an equally dubious mentor-figure — in other words, everything that Morgana, the show’s Big Bad

Most of the time a gun will beat a wand

Is Harry The Hero and a genuine savior, or is he a trust-fund orphan whose deceased parents give him license to dismiss everyone else's problems as unimportant? Or is he a nice guy but just a poorly executed one? The first time he defeated Voldemort was through no action of his own, and the second time was mostly taking advantage of Voldemort's inability to understand love and he simply followed Dumbledore's plans. Some critics suggest that many of his victories were only based on luck (or Dumbledore's Batman Gambits) as opposed to great skill with magic. Interestingly, Harry himself believes the former, only for Ron and Hermione to insist that these events also showed a bravery and resourcefulness that others don't have.

Many also question if Harry actually is a good friend. Some have argued that Harry is a Hollywood Nerd who is fundamentally a jock, who likes sports and girls, coasts off Hermione for his homework yet refuses to listen to her and even dismisses her when he wishes to For instance, in Deathly Hallows, Harry privately concurs with Xenophilius Lovegood that Hermione is "narrow-minded," and while he agrees later that Hermione was right about the Hallows, he does not apologize to her and moreover has severe Moral Myopia when it comes to class and school discipline (i.e. his insensitivity to Ron, and his plagiarism of the Prince's notebook in Book 6, poor sportsmanship). Such fans also raise eyebrows to Harry/Hermione Shipping Goggles since Harry in the books does not really come across as a very good friend to her (taking Ron's side in Book 3, he got mad at her for reporting the Firebolt anomously sent to him to McGonagall despite that it was a big red flag (To be fair, Hagrid did call him out for that), and generally getting very morose and depressed whenever he and Ron fight, but taking Hermione for granted and moreover not showing the slightest remorse or consideration about how his use of the Prince Textbook is unfairly giving him an advantage over Hermione's labour in class), while also criticizing him for Gaslighting Ron into the Sidekick Glass Ceiling Like after becoming Captain in Book 6, he doesn't defend Ron despite him more or less winning the Quidditch Cup the previous year, while Harry sat out of the final for his poor sportsmanship and then resorting to a cheap trick to make Ron feel like he won but still remain insecure, while Ron once again served on the winning team of the Quidditch tournament when he got himself suspended again.

Who are even the good guys? Many Death Eaters don't exactly share in Voldemort's fervor to Take Over the World. Some of them were high-ranking figures already, which suggests that they were attracted to the movement's ideology (which happens to be to exterminate everything that's not a pure-blooded wizard). Others suggest, though, that they're Not So Different from the good guys, who themselves want to keep magic a secret from the world at large (to the point where none of them bothered to break The Masquerade during the ten months Voldemort took over their government even though it was a threat would have ended both societies and despite how many muggles were being killed at the point), have a very harsh and sometimes disproportionate justice system, are fine with slavery, and have their own discriminatory viewpoints (Dumbledore is implied to be astonishingly progressive to give Lupin and Hagrid jobs at Hogwarts, and he still has to keep Lupin's lycanthropy a secret). One common fan interpretation is that Wizarding Britain is incredibly backwards, insular, and prejudiced compared to other magical communities.

Gryffindor is the house Harry belongs to, so naturally we see the most of it and it's painted in the best light. It's nominally the house of courage and chivalry, but some fans see it more as a house full of Jerk Jocks, Glory Hounds, and the Popular Is Dumb crowd. Ravenclaw is the house for smart people, but how smart are Ravenclaws really? Some paint them as rather boring, academic, and exclusionary. But when Order of the Phoenix introduced Luna Lovegood, now they also became associated with eccentrics, mystics, and creative types. Is Slytherin a house of Always Chaotic Evil Pureblood fanatics? Word of God says no, they're much more nuanced. However, we don't see much evidence of this in the books, but Harry is a Gryffindor, has a real rivalry with Slytherin, and might just not want to see any redeeming qualities. The most positively portrayed Slytherin, Horace Slughorn, is an Anti-Hero who still has subtle traces of Pureblood Supremacy. Officially, they're the house of ambition, but Ambition Is Evil in the story. Fan writers like to suggest that they're Not Evil, Just Misunderstood - a house that likes being edgy, sticking up for each other, and finding hidden potential. Pureblood fanaticism on that large a scale seems kind of impractical, anyway.

Its founder, Salazar Slytherin, is not painted well in the books - he was known to have built the Chamber of Secrets, which housed the Muggle-killing Basilisk, and he did have a falling out with the other founders over whether or not to accept Muggle-born students. This suggests that he really was a Pureblood supremacist, but one interpretation suggests that since the Burn the Witch! trope was alive and well at the time, he didn't have anything against Muggles per se, but was a pragmatist who didn't want to open the school up to attack by Muggles. Under this interpretation, the Chamber of Secrets was a defense against a possible attack.

Hogwarts appears to be founded in the 990s or so, the Burn the Witch! thing didn't get underway until the mid-1400s. There were isolated incidents in the Founder's time, but not the hundreds of thousands we see during the Early Modern Period. So it might have been the fear that the Muggle-borns would attract unwanted attention, as a pure- or half-blood would have parents who could mitigate the damage?
Hufflepuff is so often portrayed as "the House of All The Rest" that it named a trope. Fans naturally wanted to explore their positive traits, but they differ on what those are. Some suggest it's the House of goal-oriented hard workers, so much so that they'll eschew glory just to get stuff done. Others suggest it's the House of love, friendship, and community. Still others suggest they're just Lawful Stupid.

Much like Salazar Slytherin, Helga Hufflepuff has been reinterpretted in some works as the Only Sane Man. In this view Hufflepuff wasn't "all the rest" because she especially valued community, but because she knew children didn't have a firm grasp of their identity at age 11 and that dividing students up based on personality was a bad idea.

By the way, imagine what an eleven-year-old child would think when the Sorting Hat singing their song at the Sorting Ceremony DIRECTLY making Hufflepuff a "House of All The Rest" - somebody who isn't brave enough for Gryffindor, clever enough for Ravenclaw or pure enough for Slytherin, and making a very hard point that the hat isn't ever mistaken. No wonder why some consider Hufflepuff House as a dumping ground for students that the other founders wouldn't consider "worthy".

With a few exceptions, such as Dobby, the House-Elves find the prospect of not serving human wizards abhorrent. However, is this Happiness in Slavery attitude actually genuine? Are the House-Elves just saying they’re fine with being enslaved because they feel as if they can’t fight the Fantastic Caste System the Wizarding World has enforced on them? Or have they been enslaved by wizards for so long they don’t know what they would do if they weren’t serving wizards? note For this point, consider how Dobby's idea of freedom is "never serving the Malfoys again and being able to choose who he serves while he gets paid for it", not "never serving wizards again". Also, when Dumbledore offered Dobby ten Galleons a week and weekends off (which is the minumum wage in the Wizarding World) when hiring him to work in the Hogwarts kitchens, Dobby was uncomfortable with this because he felt it was too much, so he bargained down to one Galleon a week and a day off per month instead. Or are they just trying to avoid punishment from their human overseers by seeming to be grateful for the slave labor they’re forced to do note and most wizards, who aren't open-minded people just take these claims at face value so they don't have to bother themselves with the implication of having slaves?

At one point, Hermione speculates that the House-Elves are psychologically conditioned to like being enslaved, which is something that has happened to slaves in real life. When you read into it more, you realize that this assumption actually does have a lot of basis in fact; the House-Elves are psychologically conditioned to physically punish themselves severely if they fail a task or disobey their masters. If they're mentally compelled to do that to themselves, what other things are they mentally compelled to do to themselves?

The series also repeatedly demonstrates that the house-elves are fine with working for wizards as long as their masters treat them with kindness. With that in mind, it explains why the Hogwarts house-elves are upset when Hermione tries to trick them into being freed by leaving out hats and socks for them. Serving at Hogwarts under Dumbledore is the best job that a house-elf can get in Wizarding Britian, so being forced to leave would have forced them into an even worse enslavement, something that Hermione clearly doesn't consider at all

To bad to hear that this story is on hiatus. I really like it and hope that you will start updating it soon.

please continue this one you left it alone

Aww, I would really have liked an update:( but at least you aint giving up :)

So, now Morgana's alive; okay- that's taking a cool twist!

Oh dear. Poor Harry. So happy you updated! It's been so long I had to re-read the story, which was better then I remembered it, actually. Now Morgana is in the flesh and has met Harry, and I hope you update soon because that was a horrible place to leave it! Gah, I want to read more!

Harry is always jumping to conclusions, isn't he? *sighs* Will eagerly await your next installment!

pleeeeaaaaaase update?

Oh...my...gods...sofreakinghilarious! HAHA! UpdateupdateUPDATE please! Soon?

Falcon

update soon please

This is a great story. But I'm re-reading it now, and I noticed that you set the date of the Battle of Hogwarts in 2004, when it actually happened in 1998. Just thought I'd let you know.

Neat crossover! I wonder if Mordred and co. could learn to use wands as well? Maybe then their spells would be extra powerful. Good luck as you start Sixth Form!