ron weasley

Biting worries on Edward Cullen

There’s a six-foot tall cardboard cut-out of Edward Cullen in my younger sister’s bedroom. It wobbles when she hugs it. She wraps her arms around his shoulders, and one of her hands scrapes his unfinished back. My mom smiles at me from behind the flashing camera, and I turn away. “Vampires are in now,” my sister informs me. I have to wonder when wizards became “out.

| Senior Cadenza Editor

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