The Science of Twilight

[Knives]

I don't think humans ever actually killed a vampire- they just pretended they were dead, much like the witches and wizards in Harry Potter, who put a Flame Freezing spell on the fires attempting to burn them and instead enjoyed a pleasant tickling sensation whilst pretending to shriek in pain.

Directly contradicted by the Voulturii's own statements; see New Moon, I do beleive.

[dandyvampgirl_13]

... If there are vampires there can so be Hogwarts! The Volturi can't stop me from believing!

Moving on, *goes to check New Moon*
"...Marcus of the Volturi, in fact. The story claims he was martyred in Romania, still trying to drive out the vampire scourge. That's nonsense of course- he's never left the city. But that's where the some of the supersitions about things like crosses and garlic come from. Father Marcus used them so succesfully. And vampires don't trouble Volterra, so they must work."
Carlisle never says if the mob got the true vampire they were hunting, so I can only assume he outran the humans, and therefore didn't die.

It seems that humans thought that they were killing vampires, so either the Volturi planned all the "vampire catchings" to spread the propaganda, or the normal vampires caught on, or the humans caught innocent people and thought this stuff worked. In the meanwhile while everyone was in Translyvania chasing Dracula, the Volturi were discreetly taking care of the real trouble makers.

I can't think of any other instances, but when I read New Moon again in the two hours I have to wait to see the movie (Ah, the joys of reserved seating. I don't have to stand in line with squeely Robert fans, thank Neptune.) I'll be looking for them. If you'd like to add any, you can, to prove your point.

[Valrhona40]

Not directly a science question, but related, still. You know that Bella was accepted at Dartmouth and was willing to attend it after she would be back from her honeymoon. As much as I am at peace with the Breaking Dawn ending, I just can't stop thinking about how interesting it would have been to see Bella going to college.

[dandyvampgirl_13]

I don't think that has anything to do with science, unless Bella was perhaps considering majoring in Genetics or something.

I'd suggest another thread the question would be more appropriate for, but I can't think of any. Sorry.

[ringswraith]

Actually, may I direct you to the Fanfiction Discussion thread? I'm sure you can ask if someone's written a fic about that, and I'm just as certain that someone has.

[Openhome]

I'm pretty sure there's a fanfic about everything we've written about here. I am even willing to bet there is a Ghost Hunters / Twilight crossover somewhere. I know there is one for Star Trek and Twilight, but it reads more like TwiCrack.

[TwilightRose1]

hahahaha probably.