It’s official: Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will be reprising their roles as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in the forthcoming The Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping . And while the studio is at least attempting to be vague about the reason for their characters’ return, book readers already know exactly what’s going on — and that it will likely offer up some satisfying closure to their characters’ arcs in post-war Panem.

Suzanne Collins’ novel primarily serves as an origin story for District 12 Hunger Games victor Haymitch Abernathy, chronicling his win during the Second Quarter Quell and complicating much of the original trilogy’s version of what happened. (Propaganda! It’s a thing in every universe.) But the novel also contains an epilogue, set after the

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