"Brevis Birch, meanwhile, blamed the Tornados' narrow defeat on a bout of sleeping sickness...."
-- match report in the Daily Prophet (DP2)
Brevis Birch was the Captain of the Tutshill Tornados Quidditch team in the 1990s (DP2).
Birch blames the team’s loss to the Ballycastle Bats on a mysterious drowsiness that affected the Tornados’ Keeper, Mervyn Fenwick (DP2).
Commentary
Etymology
Brevis is the Latin word for "short" (Wikipedia).
Birch is an English surname, may come from a place called Birch in Essex, which is derived from Old English bryce meaning "breaking, agricultural land" or birce meaning "birch trees" (Internet Surname Database).
Notes
Sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis, is transmitted by the tsetse fly and more or less impossible to contract outside of sub-Saharan Africa (Wikipedia). -BB
Although the date printed on the second Daily Prophet Newsletter (DP2) is 8 February 1999, the timeframe for this event is 1992-1993.
Lexicon list of Team managers and coaches
From the Web
Writing by J K Rowling on WizardingWorld.com (Pottermore): The Daily Prophet
WizardingWorld.com (Pottermore) features:
- The British and Irish Quidditch League
- British and Irish Quidditch teams to support
- Quidditch Through the Ages
Harry Potter Wiki: Brevis Birch
