re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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Do you think she had Jon stabbed in order to keep him at the wall with her? I wouldn't put it past her.

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Nah. I don't think Mel would do that. Bowen Marsh had legit reasons to kill Jon, and he very much broke his vows by sending Mance Rayder down to Winterfell to steal his sister from the Boltons.

I do have a Crackpot theory that Littlefinger may have had his greasy paws in it though. Jon is relying on Bowen Marsh reaching out to the Vale for food, which LF happens to control. That isn't really brought up again. LF has his eyes set on the North and he killed his catspaw Janos Slynt, and he has no idea what he could have told Jon. Plus bringing Sansa up north and seating her up there could persuade Jon to bring troops to Winterfell, which he attempted with the Arya situation. LF needs Jon dead, and when he gets a little raven from the Wall, he tells Marsh that he'll let them starve until Jon Snow is dead, and then he'll happily help them and their needs. Marsh may have felt as if he didn't have a choice in the matter, and when Jon indesputably broke his vows, he as his fellow conspirators took their chance.