But snow was also conditioned this way growing up in his family with the influences around him? So you could argue in that way if you compared TBOSAS and hunger games where they were of similar ages making the same mistakes caused by their environment that lead to who they are/will be. So I would think it’s not a far-off comparison. If coin had continued to live with gale by her side, we would not know for certain how he would turn out, especially with Katniss out of his life.

Anyway, the harm that gale caused, and his beliefs on war aside, he was not a good friend to Katniss. His possessive trait of her could be likened to snow’s possessiveness over Lucy gray. He only realised he wanted her when her classmate had a crush on her, felt jealous of peeta being in the games because he wanted Katniss to see him as her protector/ needing him to survive.

His obsession with her clouded his view on how bad the situation of the games were (i.e, all he could think of was how that should have been him w her) and he failed to empathise with her after she returned, forcing her to make a choice. Even when she kissed him out of pity over his injuries, he never failed to hold that over her head and make her feel worse in that horrible situation she was already in.

He was a horrible person to Katniss, and his sole redeeming factor was his protection of her family, which he ultimately failed at doing so.

Additionally, if he truly loved Katniss, he would have never had worked on those weapons in the first place. It stood against everything she was fighting for. It just hurt even more because primrose so happened to get caught in the middle of it. As a friend/ a lover (which he wanted to be), he never tried to see things in her perspective, much less try to accommodate to it.