The Rules of Love

Prologue

The Role of Witches, 5th century Britain

In the Days of the infamous Merlin, muggle England was mist famously ruled by a Squib by the name of Arthur, son of Uther Draconas Aurelianus,(better known as Uther Pendragon) and disputably the nephew of Ambrosius Aurelianus, the muggle high King and the creator of the Victory Draught. His mother was the famous Seer Igerna Cornwallus, known as Queen Igraine.
Many muggles were mystified by the sense of magic in this time, as this was before the Act of International Wizarding Secrecy (see index III, sec. 2.1 subsection a).

…in the late 12th century, there was a muggle historian known as Andreas Capellanus. He was the husband to Kalendsa of May, who worked on the May Love Tonic before her tragic assassination by her husband (who himself was under the influence of a misbrewed finitus potion). This muggle, with his wife's influence, studied the art of love and wrote his books commonly refered to as 'De Amore.' These three books were a written copy of those given by the Breton Knight, known as the werewolf Brian Chevalier (see index IX, sec. 3.7).

…These three books, collected by Capellanus, were written for both muggle and magical communities on the rules of love. Book I is summarized as dialogues to define which social class could marry who of another, and in what circumstances. Bademagu Black re-classified these as the 'Pureblood Rules' (index XII sec. 1.1). Book II regards the reasons of who is suited for love, and a list of specified regulations and ideals – The Rules of Love (see index VII sec. 2.1). Book III, written in his mad potion-induced rage, advises rejection of love and to distrust women in a misogynistic rant. The author…

Katie flipped the pages in her book to the list of indexes.

Index VII, sec. 2.1

The rules of Capellanus were generated by the earlier list given by the Breton Knight, There are thirty-one Rules, which muggles classified as literary, not rational. To find the list of rules and their uses, please refer to Broomhilda Grandstaff's annotated translation of Andreae Capellani regii Francorum, De amore libri tres.

At this Katie shut her book, dejected. Madam Pince was glaring at her, waiting for her to turn in for the night. She browsed through the shelves , and found the source she was looking for. However, the librarian had already tapped her shoulder, informing her to leave.

Oliver Wood, once again, looked eagerly through the shelves. The dawn practice had just reminded him of a play he wanted to try out, to show Charlie at practice the next morning. If only he could remember the title…

'Gripstaff, Gripstaff, Gripstaff…' he noticed a book slightly pulled out from the shelf.

"Grandstaff, B." 'Is that right?' "Regii Francorum-"

Oliver glanced up, scanned for the librarian, and tossed the book into his bag, continuing for his next book. Finally, with five minutes to spare, he handed them to Madam Pince to check and signed them out. He thought it odd that the list stated the volume hadn't been checked out in over twelve years; surely he had just read it four months ago?

Oliver shook his head and began his run to Charms.

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