Lenore Dove Baird

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Lenore Dove Baird
Age	16
Occupation	Rebel
Home	The Seam in District 12
Gender	Female
Relatives	Unnamed mother Unknown father Clerk Carmine Clade (adoptive uncle) Tam Amber (adoptive uncle) Burdock Everdeen (distant cousin) Unknown relations Lucy Gray Baird Barb Azure Baird Maude Ivory Baird
Fate	Deceased
Book Appearances	Sunrise on the Reaping
Book Mentioned	Mockingjay

Lenore Dove Baird was a girl from District 12 who was dating Haymitch Abernathy.

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Who was Haymitch Abernathy's girlfriend from District 12?

A woman from District 12 was Haymitch Abernathy's girlfriend. Their relationship occurred during the 50th Hunger Games when Haymitch was sixteen. Following Haymitch's victory in the Hunger Games, his girlfriend was killed, along with his mother and younger brother. This loss had a profound impact on Haymitch, who did not marry or engage in another romantic relationship.

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What was the significance of Haymitch Abernathy's relationship with his girlfriend?

The relationship between Haymitch Abernathy and his girlfriend was significant due to its tragic end. She was killed as a form of retribution by the Capitol after Haymitch's victory in the 50th Hunger Games, which had made the Capitol appear foolish. This event marked a turning point in Haymitch's life, leading him to a solitary existence and alcoholism.

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Did Haymitch Abernathy's girlfriend have any impact on his performance in the 50th Hunger Games?

Haymitch Abernathy was in a relationship with his girlfriend during the 50th Hunger Games. Despite this, there's no explicit indication that she influenced his performance in the games. Tragically, following Haymitch's victory, the Capitol executed his girlfriend, mother, and younger brother as retribution for his actions during the games.

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How did Haymitch Abernathy's girlfriend react to his victory in the Hunger Games?

Haymitch Abernathy's girlfriend was unable to react to his victory in the 50th Hunger Games. She was killed by the Capitol two weeks after Haymitch's win, in retaliation for his game-winning strategy that embarrassed the Capitol.

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Biography

Early life

Lenore Dove was born in December in the year of the 33rd Hunger Games. Her mother died in childbirth, so she was raised by her adoptive uncles, Clerk Carmine Clade and Tam Amber, in the Covey's house. She did not know who her father was, but the Chances were particularly fond of her which suggested they had a connection. Clerk Carmine did not like her hanging around with them due to their reckless nature.

Lenore Dove met Haymitch Abernathy in the fall when they were ten years old. It was the first time Haymitch had ever snuck out of the fence and into the woods with Burdock Everdeen, who was Lenore Dove's cousin. She was reading in an apple tree above them, and she complained when Burdock sang to the mockingjays. Lenore Dove dropped apples down onto the boys, and she and Haymitch discussed the origins of her name. At age twelve, she was arrested twice for rebellious acts.

Since she was a Baird, she likely had knowledge of Lucy Gray, but did not want to discuss her whenever Haymitch wondered who the first District 12 victor was. This was possibly because the story was too secret or too painful. Lenore Dove would add scraps of Lucy Gray's dress to her wardrobe as a way to honor her memory.

50th Hunger Games

Lenore Dove was dating Haymitch by the time of the 50th Hunger Games. She taught his younger brother, Sid Abernathy about the stars, which she had learned herself from Tam Amber. Haymitch went to see her shortly before the reaping on his birthday. She gifted him a striker with a snake and a long-necked bird merged together with two small rings that she had designed. During the reaping, she and Haymitch were presumed safe after the four tributes were picked. However, when the last tribute, Woodbine Chance ran away and was killed, a riot broke out. Lenore tried to help his mother prevent Peacekeepers from taking his body away. Haymitch tried to protect her and was thus reaped after being chosen by Drusilla Sickle to take Woodbine's place in the Hunger Games.

Drusilla demanded that the area was cleaned up before the reaping returned to broadcasting, and ordered a Peacekeeper to kill Lenore Dove for her resistance. Plutarch Heavensbee intervened as he wanted to record her tears over Haymitch's reaping as it would put on a good show for the audience. However when they reenacted the reaping, Lenore Dove refused to cry for the Capitol's entertainment. At the conclusion of the reaping, a Peacekeeper was about to put her in handcuffs when her uncles bribed him to let her go. Although she wanted to go over to Haymitch, they led her away down a sideroad.

Shortly before the train left District 12 for The Capitol with Haymitch, she went to the hill nearby holding gumdrops that he had sent his brother Sid to give her. She wailed at the wind and let out her pain as the train left. Haymitch watched out the window and was glad she saved their goodbye for when they weren't being recorded.

When training scores were released and Haymitch only received a 1, Lenore Dove performed forbidden songs on the reaping stage, which still stood outside the Justice Building. Her performance drew a crowd of other discontented kids, so she was arrested and held on the Peacekeepers' base in District 12. After the tributes' interviews, Plutarch arranged a phone call between her and Haymitch. She told him about her arrest and claimed she would be released the next morning; however, she was still incarcerated when Haymitch returned home two weeks later. Her uncles arranged for her to be released on house arrest, and she went to graze her geese in the Meadow, where she reunited with Haymitch.

Death

After his victory, Haymitch's mother, younger brother Sid, and Lenore Dove, were killed as punishment for his rebellious actions during the Games. In Lenore Dove's case, Haymitch fed her a gumdrop, believing it to be a bag he had left for Sid to give her earlier. However, he realized too late that a new bag had been planted there, filled with poison. Despite Haymitch and Lenore Dove's best efforts to stop it and call for help, the poison killed her. With her last words, Lenore Dove urged Haymitch not to let the sun rise on the reaping. Lenore Dove was buried in the Covey's secret graveyard beside Lucy Gray and Maude Ivory Baird.

Legacy

As a result of her death, Haymitch drove away anyone who could've been considered close to him so that they wouldn't suffer the same horrible fate and became an alcoholic. Haymitch would've welcomed his death if it wasn't for his promise to Lenore Dove that he would somehow keep the sun from rising on the reaping. Haymitch spent weeks looking for Lenore Dove's grave, eventually finding it with the help of Burdock Everdeen and spent two days at her graveside. The story that people were told was that she died suddenly of appendicitis.

Haymitch told Katniss Everdeen twenty-five years later about his girlfriend and his family being killed.

Following the Second Rebellion, Haymitch no longer found himself haunted by Lenore Dove. Instead, he saw her as having grown old beside him and he felt like she forgave him as Haymitch had at last kept his promise, or at least leant a hand. However, Lenore Dove would tell Haymitch that he couldn't join her yet as he still had to look after his family. Haymitch later told Katniss and Peeta Mellark his story, about everyone he had ever lost, including Lenore Dove. Haymitch was content in knowing that the Capitol could never take Lenore Dove from him again, and they never really did in the first place.

Personality and traits

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Lenore Dove was good with animals and raised a gaggle of geese from their hatching. She believed that anything was possible and that you shouldn't necessarily assume that something would continue to happen just because it had in the past. She was quiet in public, and thus surprised Haymitch with how much she could talk in private. She didn't like singing in public. Even though she was patient when explaining things, Haymitch felt that she might be too smart for him.

Haymitch described Lenore Dove as having "a dark view on things."

Physical description

Lenore Dove had dappled green eyes and her hair had a hint of red in the sunlight. She wore faded overalls and shirts that concealed snips of colour salvaged from Lucy Gray Baird's dress, and held a blue handkerchief in her pocket and a raspberry ribbon in her cuff. While performing in Mayor Allister's house, she wore a faded green dress with an ivory hair ribbon and orange lipstick. Her voice was "as soft and haunting as moonlight."

Relationships

Haymitch Abernathy

"I think of Haymitch, unmarried, no family, blotting out the world with drink. He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude— that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement."

—Katniss Everdeen

Haymitch was profoundly affected by her loss. He is not known to have ever married, or even been romantic with another woman after her. However, in the films he occasionally engaged in light flirtation with Effie Trinket, and the two kissed in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.

Etymology

In line with the Covey tradition of naming their children after a ballad and a color, Lenore Dove was named after the tormented man's beloved in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", and the color of a dove, which the District 12 school's dictionary described as "[w]arm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint."

Trivia

• In an exclusive excerpt from Chapter 1 of Sunrise on the Reaping from People Magazine, her name was revealed as Lenore Dove.
  • This prompted fan speculation that she is Covey, since her name fits their unique naming convention: a two-part name with the first part being taken from a ballad and the second being a color. This was confirmed upon the title's release.
• Lenore Dove is a Baird, and while it is unknown who her mother is because she died in childbirth, it could be Maude Ivory, whose headstone appears in the Covey's graveyard alongside Lucy Gray and Lenore Dove's.
• Her father's identity is a mystery.
• She can play the piano and accordion, the latter of which she calls her "tune box".