peetaismyhero:

How do you think he won the Games?” I say.… Peeta considers this quite a while before he answers. Haymitch is sturdily built, but no physical wonder … He’s not particularly handsome. Not in the way that causes sponsors to rain gifts on you. And he’s so surly, it’s hard to imagine anyone teaming up with him. There’s only one way that Haymitch could have won, and Peeta says it just as I am reaching the same conclusion. “He outsmarted the others,” says Peeta. I nod, then let the conversation drop. But secretly I’m wondering if Haymitch sobered up long enough to help Peeta and me because he thought we just might have the wits to survive.