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Jon Gunnarsson

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  1. Fascinating theory, but I think there are some serious flaws. The biggest problem is that bit in AGoT, Tyrion V, where Tyrion thinks about whodunnit: "He wondered which of them had sent the footpad to silence the Stark boy, and whether they had truly conspired at the death of Lord Arryn." For context, "they" refers to Jaime and Cersei (since he thinks about his siblings in the previous paragraph). Reading this as anything but confirmation of Tyrion's innocence is a stretch. Prince of Harrenhal would like us to believe that "wondered" here is used in the sense of "He was astonished at which of them had sent the footpad..." This interpretation is beyond tortured. It requires Martin to have used deliberately bad English ("wondered" when it should be "wondered at"). Hinging an important plot point on something like this would be clumsy writing when Martin could have just avoided the problem by omitting this paragraph. The far more reasonable interpretation is that this sentence is there to give the reader confirmation that Tyrion is indeed innocent. Another problem with the theory is that if Littlefinger truly had somehow figured out Tyrion's guilt, he could have provided Cat and Ned with some evidence instead of dishing up an easily-disprovable lie about who had won the dagger. Going back to Tyrion's imprisonment at the Vale, the idea that Tyrion—regardless of guilt or innocence—could have won a trial with young Robert "I want to see him fly" Arryn as judge is farfetched. I also doubt that he could have insisted on a trial in King's Landing. Such a request might have been granted by a reasonable and prudent lord, but Lysa and her Sweetrobin are neither.
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