The Real Reason Why Arya Left The Hound To Die Is So Tragic 😢

Did you know in the books Arya left the Hound to die because she was very conflicted? This short uses evidence from A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter.

A Game of Thrones theory explained, prepare for The Winds of Winter release date with a theory video of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series and something to think about while waiting for HBO's House of the Dragon Season 2.

[queenxx]

She did not give him what he wanted, that was her revenge .

[arm]

The Hound watched her saddle Craven through eyes bright with fever. Not once did he attempt to rise and stop her. But when she mounted, he said, "A real wolf would finish a wounded animal."

Maybe some real wolves will find you, Arya thought. Maybe they'll smell you when the sun goes down. Then he would learn what wolves did to dogs. "You shouldn't have hit me with an axe, " she said. "You should have saved my mother." She turned her horse and rode away from him, and never looked back once.

[JW-dpwe]

It’s a great scene. She was about to do what he wanted anyway, but trying to egg her on had the opposite effect and stopped her outright.

[AniSwiftTVRecaps]

The hound and Arya journey is so funny I'm the books.
He gets robbed by the brotherhood without banners so he steals Arya from them.

He carries her to the twins to sell her for money where they find the red wedding happening so he had to drag her away and keep watch so she doesn't try to go back.

Then he intends to sell her to the vale or river run to get some cash and he decides to go to Riverland because it's closer only to find out that the castle is under siege.

So he decides to sell her to the vale but a fight breaks out and he gets injured and all his wounds get infected and she just leaves him there under the tree.

We can assume afterwards he crawled into the trident river intending on drowning himself but was saved by the holy dude who took him in and made the hound religious. Though this does not explain how his horse found him

[REDNAK]

The hound died in the books. They burried him and marked the gravestone with his helm. Sandor may survived

[mesterg]

at this point she didnt want to kill him because she cared too much for him, however she still wanted revenge. This was her way of getting both

[SamaelLightbringer-mmnp]

'I stood there in my white cloak.'
Zooms in on him wearing black armour.

[MortenLongbottom]

The show took away many great moments from the books, but the one I will never forgive is when Arya, as Nymeria, found her mother and tried to wake her up only to realize that she was already dead.

[neilhannan]

The Hound was the most caring character had to be Ruthless in order to survive In a cruel world 😢 and the way Hound insult her in order to get your fuel her up to kill Him shows Hound is Arya only friend

[jf_kein_k]

Whether he's the gravedigger now or died, doesn't really matter.
As his legacy lives on in the form of his helmet, first used by Rorge from the Brave Companions to commit atrocities, then taken by Lem Lemoncloak who is working under Lady Stoneheart.

[tyrellesmith]

They have a much less jovial relationship in the books. It's a change in the show that I kind of enjoyed despite not be 1 to 1 with the books. My only issue is that in the show when they reach this point, it feels uncharacteristically cold of this version of Arya to not kill him. She has yet to become the cold assassin yet and that part just didn't work for me. Their scenes were still fun to watch

[marycanary]

schrödingers sandor: if you dont kill him he might somehow survive

[jay_ds]

It’s pretty much the same in the show if we are being honest. Except the whole Brienne part

[NealOfTaylor]

powerful inflection points in both characters. This is Arya’s first time actually *thinking* before killing someone instead of just reacting. She is beginning to become a true Faceless Man, who only kill for logical purposes, viewing personal “revenge, ” per se, as beneath themselves. Getting revenge means there is still too much Ego within you.

Arya is beginning to see Death as merely a tool rather than an obsession.

In a way, the Hound realizes the exact same thing, and that’s why he becomes a gravedigger instead of a warrior.

[amybishop]

I do love the way he started off by saying he hated liars, then said that bit about Sansa, his "little bird". He would have never done anything like that to her. The Hound does have principles, and that would have been out of the question, to rape a teenage girl.

[danny_decheeto]

God I love the Hound, such a compelling character

[fwant]

so "did you know in the books its almost exactly the same as in the show"

great info thanks

[TtotheCizzel]

Bad dogs aren't born, they are made

[outlawblack]

Also in the book he didn't fight Brienne. Some guys just messed him up

[shaazo]

This is such a gut wrenching scene imo, beautifully written and so tragic