This will maybe be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t want to see the Volturi overthrown in a future Twilight book, and I think it’s generally a good thing that they weren’t overthrown in Breaking Dawn.
Yes, the Volturi are evil and corrupt. Yes, Aro regularly destroys covens and enslaves their more useful members. But they’re kind of a necessary evil. The only thing standing between the mass enslavement and death of humans is the Volturi. Now, they certainly didn’t rise to power and create the law of secrecy to protect humans, but that’s what happened. The only thing stopping vampires from killing en masse or enslaving people is the law of secrecy. Vampires generally just don’t care enough about humans to control themselves.
If the Volturi got overthrown, then it would either be mass chaos or the Romanians would take over. The same Romanians who enslaved humans and didn’t limit how much they ate. The best case scenario would be that Carlisle takes over, but I don’t think he wants to, and the Romanians want power too much to let him. The Romanians don’t want the law of secrecy, and once that is removed, there’d be mass enslavement of humans, a bunch of immortal children, and vampires killing humans without limiting themselves.
I think the ideal situation is that we get what was in Life and Death, where Sulpicia and Athenadora rule alongside Marcus. But I don’t think the Volturi can be completely done away with.
