Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-28891914-20160703145337/@comment-25402783-20160904145341

SummerandBran wrote: BigBadBruin343 wrote: SummerandBran wrote: BigBadBruin343 wrote: SummerandBran wrote: Everyone shoots this down but I've heard a lot of convincing theories about why Littlefinger would know. He's always loved Cat so when the honorable Ned Stark shows up with a bastard I would think he'd do anything to find out about this kid. He always keeps his cards so close to his chest and won't play them until the exact right time. Plus wouldn't he have looked into why Ser Arthur Dayne was fighting with Rhaegar. He was Rhaegar's best friend and knight.

Yup, if it affected his precious Cat, he'd be all over that. And when he said the South, I thought you could tell what he meant. It's only the Free Folk who think everything south of the wall is south. Not a Westerosi

He still wouldn't have the evedence to prove that Jon is Rhaegar's son. When he says Jon is a "motherless bastard born in the South" he's talking about his mother being from the south (which she's not). Of course he doesn't have proof. No DNA testing, damn! But he may have been able to find one of the midwives. I don't know. I know this is a really big reach to make this true. But..he is a sneaky, cunning guy. And YouTubers like to freeze their screens and really examine the face Aiden Gillen is choosing to use. Like shock (which is like, never), and most cases when he's with Sansa he's got these weird knowing type looks on his face. He uses a bit different face when talking about Rhaegar, and then Catelyn and Ned and Jon. Props to Aiden for doing such a fantastic job at protraying such a multifaceted character! But he didn't know where Lyanna was, so he couldn't have even known about the two midwives. You have to remeber, the war started well before Littlefinger had his power, wealth, and vast spy network. There is no way that he could even know about Lyanna's whereabouts, much less know that Jon is her son by Rhaegar.

Littlefinger knows a lot, but he doesn't know everything. Hell, he didn't know Ramsey was a f**king nut job, and look at how that turned out. Good argument and I realize Petyr would've been just a little scrapper during Robert's Rebellion. Which is why, if he knew somehow, he would've found it out when he became more powerful. And he imagined himself on the Iron Throne with Sansa by his side so I do think he knew about Ramsay. I think he would have "come to her resuce" and overthrown Ramsay and in his fantastical mind he would have married a Stark ("There must always be a Stark in Winterfell") and would therefore rule the North...now how he would rule S, E, and W....have to ask Baelish about that one. I'm kinda done arguing about this topic, since we've kinda said all there is to say. I just wanna say that I REALLY DON'T KNOW. I wouldn't put it past him but it's also a very long shot.

Just one last thing: the actor and writers said that he didn't know about Ramsey, and he would have no reason to investigate Lyanna's death. To him, there's no point.