why didn't james laurant and victoria hear bella's heartbeat in the meadow? i thought that vampires had really good hearing!!

Yeah, I was confused about that too.

I think it's cause Vampires DO have heartbeats... Remember in Breaking Dawn when Jake went downstairs after he thought Bella was dead and he meant to kill Renesmee or something and it said "the sound of a changing heartbeat?"

so, maybe Vampires do have heartbeats...

but then again, Edward says. "my heart hasn't beat in almost a hundred years" or something like that...

And to the Volturi they say, "You can hear her heartbeat"

Aw man! I just contradicted myself.

Maybe they were too preocupied with the Cullens?

And they really weren't expecting a HUMAN to be with VAMPIRES so they certainly weren't expecting her.

I'll go with the preocupied excuse!

Its one of the many flaws in the series....but guess what? I still LOVE it!

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very smart question

i think its a mistake

cause i know vampires doesn't have heartbeat

Vampires probably just tune it all out. Like Edward says he just ignores everyone's thoughts only listening to a few at a time. If vampires paid attention to everyone's heart beat or listened to everything it would be a constant clutter in their head. Remember when Edward took Bella hunting for the first time? He told her to listen and she really had to focus on everything to be able to hear the tiny things.

well as Edward says (in the midnight sun draft )"vampires don't need to breathe but it did help when hunting" they mostly rely on sent and also they could have thought it was an animal but they do mostly rely on sent when hunting