#(or i wouldn't mind if sansa was outsmarted.. just for the surprise of it.. but then again i would mind i've grown attached to sansa's arch)

[jackoshadows]

I wouldn't say Sansa will outsmart Baelish. I think it's because she is his blindspot, he is obsessed with her and yeah he is smart but clearly she is his weak point because of the Catelyn connection. I don't know what will happen exactly but there's something there. It would be a nice parallel to how he tricked Lysa because he was her blindspot (and perhaps Catelyn's too because she saw him as childhood friend and wouldn't suspect him)

As much as he loved Catelyn, he did not lift a finger to help her towards the end. He, in effect, started the ball rolling towards the destruction of Cat's family and I am sure this is something that LSH may figure out at one point.

So yes, LF is infatuated with Sansa (Ugh!) because of her resemblance to her mother and wants her to be part of his life on their way to the top, mentoring her and teaching her. However, he also keeps a lot of the plotting and secrets close to his heart and I am not even sure if everything he tells Sansa is true - if Sansa knows then the readers know because we are reading her POV and GRRM likes to keep the plotting of characters like LF and Varys secret for as long the plot requires it.

All this about Sansa being LF's weakspot etc is a bit overrated IMO. He would throw Sansa under the bus in a second if it helped him in any way. For LF, he always comes first - that’s why he’s survived for so long. No ‘the human heart in conflict with itself’ for evil ol’ LF.

What I think will happen and what I want to see happening is Sansa starting to connect dots and form ideas and opinions independent of what LF is telling her. Start questioning in her mind when he tells her about what he is doing.

Make it a little mystery with Sansa as a detective unravelling LF's plotting in the Vale - that would surprise Littlefinger because thus far Sansa has been lead by the nose and following his orders, and is not proactively analyzing LF's actions as it concerns herself, her aunt and her family. She knows that LF last saw Jeyne Poole and that Lysa Arryn poisoned her husband and then wrote to Catelyn on LF’s say so. 

“Tears, tears, tears,” she sobbed hysterically. “No need for tears . . . but that’s not what you said in King’s Landing. You told me to put the tears in Jon’s wine, and I did. For Robert, and for us! And I wrote Catelyn and told her the Lannisters had killed my lord husband, just as you said. That was so clever . . .- Sansa, ASoS

Why did he do that? Start from there. And then follow that thread to it’s ultimate conclusion. Maybe she figures it out by herself, or maybe it happens when Arya gets to the Riverlands or the Vale or meets Sansa and Arya is simply so quick at logical analysis she is like ‘Duh!’ And this time, this time, Sansa actually listens to her sibling  in contrast to siding with Joffrey against her in book one.

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