Games Of Thrones Season 7 Finale: What 'The Dragon And The Wolf' Really Means

7. Littlefinger Is No More

So it turns out that Arya and Sansa WERE playing a game with Littlefinger, and seeking to make him incriminate himself more by forcing a wedge between the Stark girls.

In the end, after prompting Sansa to take Arya to task for apparently wanting to kill her, Littlefinger ends up facing a kangaroo court of his own at Winterfell, charged with murder, conspiracy and treason. And despite his pleading - with both Sansa and Royce - he is brutally rebuffed and Arya acts as executioner, opening his throat in the Great Hall symbolically using his own weapon - the Catspaw Dagger.

The whole scene is wonderfully built (even if it pays off a rather clumsily rendered story-line) with even Bran helping trap Littlefinger with his own lies. And it was the right time to kill him off, after it seemed that his powers of manipulation were once more putting him in a strong position.

It all came without any sort of revelation that he was working with Cersei, but that may still come next season.