Sure, Jon Snow knows nothing. But man, for his own sake you’d think he would start to take a couple hints.

Last week, Jon Snow learned of the royal bloodline—he’s the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyana Stark, and not, in fact, a bastard—that gives him the clearest claim to the Iron Throne, which is higher, even, than that of Daenerys. In the final season’s second episode, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Jon told Daenerys about his heritage, and as Mashable pointed out, it might not have been such a bright idea.

Sure, it was the loyal thing for him to do. As has been on display for the entirety of the show, Jon is a man of honor. Yes, a Stark-blooded person of honor, just like Ned Stark, Robb Stark and Catelyn Stark before him.

What ever could those people have in common? Oh, that’s right. They’re all dead. Dead. Dead because of their naiveté, usually prioritizing their honor over awareness for what people in their orbit will do for power.

Let’s run through it really quickly, in case you’ve forgottten. Ned didn’t make it out of Season 1, despite essentially serving as the series’ initial protagonist. He trusted in Cersei and Joffrey to keep their word and let him escape to the Night’s Watch (even though he did nothing wrong), and ended up with his head atop a spike.

Robb betrayed an arrangement to marry one of Walder Frey’s daughters, and he and his family overcompensated, embracing the Freys and trying to make it right. This got Robb, Catelyn, and countless others killed after the Freys and Roose Bolton massacred them at The Red Wedding.

Now, apparently forgetting what happened to the man he thought was his father and the people he thought were his immediate family, Jon has placed his entire trust in someone he “loves,” but really still feels like he barely knows. Daenerys has spent the entirety of the show hunting for one thing and one thing only: power. She wants the Iron Throne, something she feels was unjustly taken from her family’s grasp. Jon, then, thinks she’s just going to be OK with his new claim to the throne?

The framing of Daenerys this season—namely, skeptical glances from the Sansa’s of the world—makes it seem like she’s set up to step into a role as the show’s heavy. Could her “at whatever cost” mentality mean taking out an unsuspecting and, yes, naive, Jon Snow, much like the way Cersei Lannister and Joffrey had all of King Robert Baratheon’s bastards killed?

Jon Snow, of course, has been down this road before. He’s been betrayed, he’s been led astray, and he’s literally been dead. You’d have to believe that Jon himself would be wary of what might be transpiring around him. Perhaps it’s a situation like last season, when Arya and Sansa realized that Littlefinger was scheming, but they weren’t letting the viewers know that they knew (phew, this show really is a lot).

You’d have to think that the show-runners, putting together a grand story arc for the closest thing their story has to a Luke Skywalker or a Harry Potter, wouldn’t bring him back from the dead just to have him betrayed, dead by circumstances he had no control over and had no idea were about to transpire. But for a character whose defining quality is “knows nothing,” well, we probably can’t put anything past him.

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