Epilogue

Summary

• Snow leaves a university building, admired by onlookers for his appearance and Peacekeeper status.
• He has gained respect as an intern Gamemaker, contributing ideas to make the Hunger Games more engaging.
• Snow proposed rewarding the winning tribute's district with food parcels and suggesting a Victor's Village and monetary prize for the victor to attract better tributes.
• Reflecting on his relationship with the Plinths, who see him as an heir after their son's death, Snow appreciates their financial support but maintains his own identity.
• The Plinths have filled a parental role for Snow, with Strabo treating him more like a son than an adopted child.
• Snow is preparing to commemorate Sejanus's birthday with a quiet dinner and invites friends who will remember him fondly.
• Before the dinner, Snow visits Dean Highbottom to retrieve his mother's compact and deal with Sejanus's belongings.
• During the visit, Dean Highbottom reveals the true origin of the Hunger Games as a twisted idea born from a drunken conversation with Snow's father.
• Snow subtly returns a diploma frame with a Plinth family photo to the dean while discarding other items of Sejanus.
• The conversation with Highbottom continues, revealing Snow's hardened perspective on love and future ambitions to rule Panem with cruelty for the sake of survival.
• Snow plans to marry someone who cannot affect his emotions, considering Livia Cardew as a suitable prospect for a future first lady.
• He reflects on his relationship with Lucy Gray, feeling indifferent to her fate but intending to guard against vulnerability.
• Finally, Snow remembers handling rat poison and subtly poisoning Dean Highbottom's morphling, leaving the dean to die and affirming his dominance with the closing thought, "Snow lands on top."