But it does seem too obvious with the waking of dragons out of stone. The story has been pushing the prophecy for awhile even though Daenerys literally brought back dragons from stone before we even heard it. So it's a question of why be misleading when you were so obvious?
We know Rhaegar thought he needed a third child and when Melisandre looks into her fires to see Azor Ahai she sees only Snow by the end of the books. Jon has a dream of him wielding a red sword fighting against the others as well.
Melisandre believes that she can wake a dragon through king's blood and had been pressuring Stannis multiple times to make a king's blood sacrifice to do so (first Edric then Val's baby). Targaryens have been called dragons and if you've read the Dunk and Egg stories, waking the dragon has already been used to mean revealing a hidden Targaryen. Shireen, who we can predict might be sacrificed similar to the show, has king's blood and Greyscale, the same disease as the stone men. Sacrificing Shireen to resurrect Jon, i.e. using king's blood to wake a dragon out of stone, would be the closest Melisandre has actually been to getting a prophecy right.
Or maybe Jon comes up with a way of using dragonglass/obsidian (stone) to make Valyrian steel(dragonsteel) now that we know that works against them too or something. I don't know, just seems weird given all the other prophecies and dreams so cryptic to have the big one be so straight forward.
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