As Lucy leaves for a brief moment to gather katniss, Snow grows paranoid and believes that she will betray him. In the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Lucy story, he starts to hunt her across the lake and the novel amps up his neurosis after he's bitten by a snake under a scarf that Lucy seems to have left behind.
Along the way, Snow goes on a journey of self-discovery as he grapples with his blossoming feelings for Lucy Gray and his hunger for power. Though he straddles the line of good and evil throughout the film, he eventually transforms into the villainous President Snow we all know by the end of the movie.
Once Snow finds the murder weapon, and therefore any evidence linking him to the crime, he gets a strange feeling. He then chased Lucy Gray with the rifle and supposedly killed her with it. The only evidence is the scream that sounded and her earring left on the ground.
His mentee is Lucy Gray Baird, a girl from a family of traveling musicians from District 12. Snow is desperate to go to university and redeem his family name, so he sets out to do his best as a mentor and make a good impression on the gamemakers.
The Life of Coriolanus Snow (UPDATED WITH NEW INFO): Hunger Games Explained
Is Katniss mom Lucy Gray?
For one thing, Songbirds & Snakes is set 64 years before Katniss volunteers as tribute. That means there's probably a generation or two between Lucy Gray and Katniss if they are related. Fans also know who Katniss' mother is, so that rules out Lucy Gray being her mom.
True to his name, he's icy and has it out for Katniss after she forces the hand of the gamemaker into letting both her and Peeta win. Songbirds and Snakes reveals why Katniss' unwavering confidence in herself and her abilities is a particular thorn in Snow's side: they remind him of Lucy Gray.
No, Lucy Gray has no relation to Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. When the original novel for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes first came out, some fans suspected that Lucy might actually be Katniss' grandmother.
However, he did genuinely seem to care about his granddaughter; when she watched Katniss tearfully hugging Peeta in the Hunger Games after Finnick Odair revived him, she said she wanted to love someone that much someday. Snow beamed at her and replied, "And so you shall, my darling. So you shall."
Technically, Coriolanus is probably cheating by encouraging Lucy Gray to take rat poison into the arena. But he desperately wants to win, so it's a risk he's willing to take. That night, Coriolanus shares with Tigris that he and Lucy Gray kissed.
At an unknown point in time years before the 74th Hunger Games, she was personally fired by Snow, the stated reason being due to her being too surgically enhanced.
The loss of a dear person leads those left behind into a downward spiral of emotions and memories. In Lucy Gray, Wordsworth focuses on that loss and the emotions that follow it.
Is Lucy Gray mentioned in The Hunger Games trilogy?
Either way, no one seems to know what became of the 10th Hunger Games victor. She's never mentioned again in any of the franchise's movies. Keep reading to see how the book handles Lucy Gray's disappearance, theories on what happened to the singer, and whether or not we could ever see more of her story.
Control: As the leader of Panem, President Snow wanted to maintain his power and control over the districts. Katniss became a symbol of rebellion and hope for many people, which threatened Snow's authority.
He married Julia Pompey but their marriage was loveless. It was suggested by many that he poisoned his wife because she tried to kill him and take their sons place.
Snow and Lucy Gray fall in love throughout their mentorship, the Games, and Snow's position in District 12 afterward, but his power-hungry nature battles with his love.
He grows up in D12 with the Covey, and eventually at the age of 24 in what would be year 36 he gets married and has a baby boy born in year 37. That baby turns out to be Katniss's father. He gets married in year 57 and Katniss is born in year 58. So Snow could be Katniss's great grandfather.
The following year after Lucy Gray Baird's victory, another female tribute emerged as the Hunger Games winner. Mags Flanagan became the first victor from District 4, living off of nuts and her survival skills by creating fishhooks. She was also the first victor to move to Victor's Village before serving as a mentor.
This comes as a result of Lucy attempting to leave Snow during a rainstorm after they plot to flee the Districts, but she learns that he was responsible for killing Sejanus Plinth during the travels.
Fan theories posit that Lucy Gray Baird may be a relative of Katniss Everdeen or President Coin. Director Francis Lawrence told us Baird likely isn't Coin, but could have ties to the character.
Ultimately, Dr. Gaul considered these games a disaster, presenting the Capitol as far too vulnerable. She erased all recordings of the games, keeping only a master copy in her own personal vault for her own purposes.
Since the end of Katniss' first Hunger Games, President Snow has been wary of Katniss and the power she wields over the districts. Snow recognized early, from Katniss' first stunt with Peeta and the nightlock berries, that she could mean trouble for his power and control over the Capitol.
Rue, the girl tribute from District 11, is small and reminds Katniss of Prim. Rue is able to hop from tree to tree like a squirrel, a skill that helps her outrun and evade her competition.
