--- title: Game of Thrones: Red Wedding Foreshadowed by the Hound description: When Game of Thrones fans first reached the Red Wedding chapter in A Storm of Swords, many couldn't believe what they were reading. canonical: https://time.com/5108845/game-of-thrones-the-hound-red-wedding-foreshadowing/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-18T23:19:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:52.382Z og:title: This May Have Foreshadowed the Biggest Game of Thrones Twist og:description: If only we had known og:url: https://time.com/5108845/game-of-thrones-the-hound-red-wedding-foreshadowing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta67b4198eb7987af/69885511e20a879ef4a8be4a/game-of-thrones-deaths-09.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Game-of-Thrones-S3-E9 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This May Have Foreshadowed the Biggest Game of Thrones Twist twitter:description: If only we had known twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta67b4198eb7987af/69885511e20a879ef4a8be4a/game-of-thrones-deaths-09.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Tiny _Game of Thrones_ Detail May Have Foreshadowed One of the Show's Biggest Twists  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 18, 2018 11:19 PM UTC  HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 18, 2018 11:19 PM UTC **Warning:** This post contains spoilers for [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/game-of-thrones-2017/). When _Game of Thrones_fans first reached the [Red Wedding](http://time.com/4624438/game-of-thrones-essential-episodes/) chapter in _A Storm of Swords_ — the third book in [George R.R. Martin’s](http://time.com/4791258/game-of-thrones-george-r-r-martin-interview/) _A Song of Ice and Fire_ series — many couldn’t believe what they were reading. But as he is known to do, Martin had dropped several hints of what was to come leading up to the gruesome massacre. For example, as was pointed out by eagle-eyed [Reddit user zlow821](https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/7r9c99/everything%5Fgrrm%5Fis%5Fsuper%5Fclever%5Fsandors%5Fcrass/) on Thursday, there’s a passage earlier in the book in which the Hound and Arya Stark are discussing what will happen when he safely delivers her to her brother Robb. Arya insists that Robb would never accept the Hound into his army, prompting one of the Hound’s patented surly retorts. “Then I’ll take as much gold as I can carry, laugh in his face, and ride off,” he tells her. “If he doesn’t take me, he’d be wise to kill me, but he won’t. Too much his father’s son, from what I hear. Fine with me. Either way I win. And so do you, she-wolf. So stop whimpering and snapping at me, I’m sick of it. Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we’ll even be in time for your uncle’s bloody wedding.” Bloody wedding. 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