that Tywin has take his men to burn and pillage the surrounding towns. It's his men that consist of the Tickler, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling, etc. It's the Mountain (Gregor Clegane) and his men that take over Harrenhall where they torture everyone and at the last moment Tywin shows up just as Gendry is about to be tortured and killed though in the books it's Roose Bolton that shows up and who Arya becomes the cupbearer for. I actually thought it was better with it being Tywin that Arya becomes the cupbearer for as they did it in the show.
It's Polliver that took Needle from Arya and killed Lommy with it when they were all captured while making their way with Yoren to The Wall. In the show it's Jaqen H'ghar that kills the Tickler, but in the books Arya kills the Tickler as well as a guard at the gate so her and Hotpie and Gendry can escape Harrenhall and also the guy laughing with his buddies in the forest bragging about how he has so much trouble keeping Grey Wind's severed head sewed on to Robb's body after the Red Wedding. That last guy in the show is the first adult person that Arya kills with the fat boy being her first rather by accident while she's hunting in that box of her things for Needle.
In the show the men at the inn are the Mountain's men that by that time are generally just raping the countryside having nothing much better to do since they took over Harrenhall. The Hound (Sandor Clegane) was burned as a child by his brother (the Mountain) who he has a life long hatred for because of it (but also because it was the Mountain that Tywin made a knight as well as one of the King's Guard that wear the white cloaks). Both the Hound and Arya are aware of who these men at the inn are and both have a burning hatred for them though for different reasons. The Hound hates them just because they're the men of his hated brother, but Arya hates them because of what they did to her and the people they tortured and killed especially Polliver that killed her friend Lommy and stole Needle from her.
In the book by this time Arya doesn't hate the Hound so much. She still hates him but she realizes that without her even knowing it she's dropped his name off of her nightly litany of the list of people she wants revenge on. In the tv show this appears to be the same though it's not really ever said. Personally, after watching all the seasons multiple times and reading the books twice (I'm actually on the third reading at this point almost at the end of book four) I still have a hard time remembering some things, like I can't even remember anymore why she hates the Hound specifically and put him on her list of people to get revenge on or who the hell Raff the Sweetling is other than one of the Mountain's men or why he's specifically on her list either and if he is in the tv show at all or just in the books. For that matter, I can't remember why she also has Ser Meryn Trent on her list though he's the one that was always beating up on Sansa at Joffrey's command, Arya wouldn't have known about that since she was already long gone. I think in the tv show Meryn isn't on her list anyway, but he is in the book.
*wee bitty teeny little spoiler here if you haven't read the books:
In the book just after this fight at the inn the Hound decides the best place to take her is to Lysa, Catylin's sister, at the Eyrie though he's doing it mostly in the hope of reward money since he's broke. But he does have a soft spot for both the Stark daughters in both the tv show and the books though he never comes out and says it, so he's probably also doing it to get Arya to safety. However, things once again don't go for Arya as planned.
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