The question as to why the forest was fenced off sat poised on Harry's lips, but he let it go unasked. Why else do you fence off a forest? To keep people out and to keep whatever was in it in. A fence wouldn't have worked against most of the creatures in the Forbidden Forest, but it would have been a nice, reassuring sight some days (and nights).

Harry headed towards it without question, keeping in step with Katniss. He didn't want to wander off in her own home without her. No matter how much they didn't get along usually, poking around in the wreckage of her home felt rude and deeply wrong even if it were innocent.

"So if this is the island," he said, to break the silence and to keep their minds off their surroundings a little, "then it won't last, right? We'll be back eventually?"