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Originally Posted by RoundTower
Maybe I missed something but I don't see how that was hinted at at all. What did the dream have to do with Jon's parentage? Based on that, he might as well be Hodor's son.
Man, I wrote a long post about it explaining the thought process all the way back in Season 2. It seems like the mods killed that thread (or at least I cannot find it)
Jist is that Ned Stark is very honorable. Ned is probably the least likely person to cheat on his wife. He never says Jon is his son. He never says who Jon's mother is. Jon's mother is mentioned throughout the show without otherwise seeming to matter.
There is also backstory that puts Ned as the first person in the Red Keep during the rebellion when Jamie killed the last Targ king. Every single Targ child was killed as to cement Robert's claim to the throne. We also know that Ned's sister Lianna? was 'kidnapped' (eloped maybe?) by one of the Targ princes.
So, knowing all of that, imagine a world where Ned Stark finds Jon in the Red Keep as a baby, the son of Lianna and (insert Targ prince's name here). What does the honorable Ned Stark do? Does he let Robert kill him? No, he hides him away and says Jon is his bastard child from the long war they just waged. He says absolutely nothing about it to anyone because he knows that if he does Jon will be killed.
In the last scene that Ned and Jon see each other he says that he'll tell Jon about his mother after he's taken the Black. He won't even say there on the King's road, alone. Why? Because once your in the Nights Watch it doesn't matter that your the son of a fallen prince and heir to the seven kingdoms.
I posted all this back in 2012. It just keeps looking better after every season that passes.