[SPOILERS MAIN] What will Jon’s reaction be?
Jon in the books is remarkably different to Jon in the show. He is very smart, exceedingly fair and dutiful, he is cunning and sarcastic, sometimes a bit ruthless and he is very ambitious. He doesn’t know about his parentage yet, but will soon. Taking his book character into account, I’m thinking about what it will do to his perception of Ned Stark. Will he forgive his uncle never telling him about his mother and father, trusting him so little in this? Or only wanting to tell him once he can’t be a danger to Robert Baratheon? Not even telling him that his mother had loved him? Taking away his chance to get to know Aemon as family, a great-great-great uncle? To choose to go to Essos instead of the Wall, to look for the other side of his family? Will Jon feel betrayed? Will he question the love of his 'father' Ned Stark?
I know that Ned chose all this to protect Jon, but purely from Jon’s perspective, what was too much? What will he be thankful for and what will he resent? Especially as he has always suffered under the thought of being a bastard, a stain on Lord Starks honour.