Is "glitteriness" a word? I don't think so. Oh well. My wife decided to do a rewatch of the Twilight movies before Breaking Dawn part 1 comes out, so I decided to watch it with her. I do this only to be able to mock it properly when people talk about it. I was wondering if there was any reason whatsoever to make the vampires glitter in sunlight instead of burning up like regular vampires. Is there a scene in the books where a vampire HAS to be out in the sun without burning to a smoldering pile of ashes? The glitteriness is stupid, but if it's EXTREMELY necessary then I'll kind of accept it for the story. Of course, the author shouldn't have needed to make something really stupid like that up to deal with a writing issue, IMO.