Game Of Thrones: 7 Dumbest Mistakes Made By Characters (And What They Cost)
4. Arya Wasting Her Free Jaqen H'ghar Kills
The Mistake: Upon freeing Jaqen H'ghar from his captivity, the Faceless Man offers Arya Stark three free kills. Anyone she chooses, no questions asked. Arya's mistake is that she wastes this golden opportunity by killing people of little consequence.
What It Cost: Political upheaval. Instead of wasting kills on someone like The Tickler (a torturer Tywin commands to stop killing people and who will immediately be replaced with another information extractor upon death), Arya could have actually used her kills in a profoundly meaningful way.
Think about it: Arya could have asked Jaqen to kill Cersei. Even better, she could have ordered the death of Joffrey, sparing countless lives and rescuing her sister from immense cruelty.
Sure, Arya used a kill to off Amory Lorch when she thought she was about to be outed to Tywin Lannister, but if she'd given the situation a bit of thought she could easily have kept at least one murder for a rainy day.