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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8281042" data-attributes="member: 58197">That encounter took place in the daytime (and there was no transformation, Dracula just jumped out a window and ran). During the daytime, Dracula can't transform, and if he's in his coffin, he can't leave. However, if he isn't in his coffin at sunrise, he can move around and do things, and the sun doesn't physically harm him.In the final scene, he was in his coffin, so he couldn't leave until sunset. If the heroes had been a few moments later, he could have misted out, then summoned wolves to attack them during the night; or, back on his native soil, he could have fled into hiding where they would never find him, which would have been a death sentence for Mina.The book leans heavily on the long-term threat of Dracula, that he can use his immortality to wait out his enemies and then return when they're dead or too old to stop him.</blockquote>