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Originally Posted by Our House
Do you still think Jon is Ned's nephew and Raegar's son? Do you agree that the kidnapping wasn't a kidnapping?
EDIT: BTW everyone, if that's all true, doesn't it give Jon Snow a claim to the throne from the Targ lineage?
Perhaps it wasn't a kidnapping. We see how badily some of the ladies in Westeros want to be Queen. Why not the Stark girl falling for a prince?
Yes, it
would have given Jon a claim to the throne before he took the black. Which is where my theory originally started: Ned knew that Jon would not be safe if it was known he is a Targ. He also probably didn't trust Jon enough not to get himself killed or his wife Cat enough to keep that secret. He was willing to take the burden of having Jon in Winterfell as his bastard if that kept him safe. That was the reason (I hypothesize) he originally took Jon, to protect him from what he probably saw as a disgusting slaughter of the Targ children.