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61.173.73.204 wrote: At the end of Season 6, Jon Snow had said that their "true enemy will not wait out the storm.  He brings the storm." Jon was expecting the Night King and would ready the North's defense against the White Walkers.

My concern is what Jon did not know in the meantime. The Night King had planted a mark on Bran Stark's arm so that he and his army could break into the Three-eyed Raven's shelter. I fear that the Wall would not hold off the White Walkers because of Bran's mark. What happens if Bran was revealed to be the one who led the White Walkers into the lands south of the wall?

The Night King's marking on Bran isn't part of a strategy to bring down the Wall! If it was, Benjen wouldn't have needed to save Bran and Meera in the woods from a group of wights chasing after them. Hodor's sacrifice in the cave would have been meaningless if the White Walkers intended to spare Bran, just so they could send him through the Wall. Bran's inherited knowledge from the Three-eyed Raven should have a remedy for the Night King's mark, even if it did prove to be a further problem. Although the mere fact that the wights were trying to kill him disproves that notion. Furthermore, we saw in the First Season that a wight was brought into Castle Black, then became re-animated mere hours later and tried to kill Jon Snow. This incident, by itself, indicates that whatever magic is meant to be protecting the Wall is NOT working! The White Walkers and their undead army can ALREADY pass through the Wall, and they don't need Bran to fufill that need!