natural

i'm a natural hater, but i dont mean to be, i promise. i read the first chapter of hunger games, and i watched the movie. the question i have:  when prim was crying about possibly being picked as a tribute, and katniss was trying to calm her down. why didn't katniss just tell prim "listen, you only have 1 entry, i have 30 (or whatever it was), the odds of you getting picked are highly unlikely. but listen, i'll promise you, that if you do happened to get picked, i'll just volunteer and take your place. so stop crying, you have a zero percent chance of being a tribute."  that is alllll she had to say, and the tears would go away. as soon as prim was picked, without hesitation, katniss volunteered. why not cut the bull shit and just tell prim before the ceremony thing that her ONE entry might as well say katniss everdeen on it? i'm a hater, and not proud of it.