Bruce J. Britton (born 2 January, 1981) was a half-blood English wizard who attended Hogwarts from 1 September, 1992, to June of 1998, in the same year as Aquila Black and Ginny Weasley. He was born in Hadleigh Heath, Suffolk, East Anglia, and he had an older brother called Charles.
He was amongst the many students of Hogwarts who stayed to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May, 1998. It was also where he sadly lost his life.
Biography[]
Early life (1981-1992)[]
Bruce Britton was born on 2 January, 1981, in Hadleigh Heath, Suffolk, England. He was a half-blood wizard, and at least one of his grandparents was a muggle. He had an older brother, Charles Britton.
Hadleigh Heath, the town in which Bruce was born, is an ancient market town and civil parish in South Suffolk, East Anglia, situated, next to the River Brett, between the larger towns of Sudbury and Ipswich. It is also one of the many villages throughout Britain where witches and wizards settled in numbers after the International Statute of Secrecy to rely on each other for mutual support, living alongside a Muggle population.
Hogwarts years (1992-1998)[]
Bruce Britton received his Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1992. Before attending, he travelled to Diagon Alley, London, with his parents, where his father bought him a wand made of dogwood and unicorn hair.
He boarded the Hogwarts Express for his first year of school on 1 September, 1992, and later that night he was sorted into Ravenclaw. He shared a dormitory with three boys: they were Antoine Mathers, Richard Beasley, and Bertram Aubrey Jr.
He sat his O.W.L.s in June of 1997. He must have managed passing grades in Transfiguration, Charms, and Herbology, as he was present when the rest of the class progressed to N.E.W.T. level. Therefore, he must have achieved a minimum of three 'Acceptables'.
Bruce Britton was amongst the many students of Hogwarts who stayed to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May, 1998. It was also where he sadly lost his life. His name was included on a list of the Fallen Fifty, which was published a few days after the battle's conclusion. It is unknown who or what may have killed him. Britton was just seventeen at the time.
Etymology[]
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name.
His surname, Britton, derives from a Middle English surname meaning "a Briton" (a Celt of England) or "a Breton" (an inhabitant of Brittany).