Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Unknown |
| Eye color | Unknown |
| Related Family | Unknown |
| Loyalty | |
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[edit] Overview
Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank is the temporary Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is called in on a number of occasions when the permanent Care of Magical Creatures teacher is "unwell", including a long stretch at the beginning of Harry Potter's fifth year.
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] Goblet of Fire
We first meet Professor Grubbly-Plank in the first class after Christmas. Hagrid has gone into hiding because of an article in The Daily Prophet which identified him as being half-Giant. While Hagrid has been teaching the class about Blast-Ended Skrewts, Professor Grubbly-Plank starts off by teaching a class on the Unicorn, which everyone except Harry and Ron feels is more like what they expected to learn in that class. (Hermione secretly seems to feel that Professor Grubbly-Plank's lessons are more useful than Hagrids, but we can see her dissembling to spare Hagrid's and Ron's feelings.) Professor Grubbly-Plank continues teaching Care of Magical Creatures for about a week on this occasion.
[edit] Order of the Phoenix
Harry is dismayed upon returning to Hogwarts to find that it is not Hagrid collecting the first-years for their trip across the lake, but Professor Grubbly-Plank.
Professor Grubbly-Plank teaches Harry's class Care of Magical Creatures. When asked about Hagrid's whereabouts, Professor Grubbly-Plank is abrupt and dismissive. Much later, when she is being inspected by Professor Umbridge, she tells Umbridge that that she doesn't actually know where Hagrid is. Professor Grubbly-Plank starts the year by teaching about Bowtruckles; Harry, overhearing comments from Draco Malfoy about Hagrid, is so angered that he nearly squeezes the one he, Ron, and Hermione are supposed to be drawing in half.
Hedwig returns from carrying a message for Harry, arriving an hour later than the usual time for post owls and apparently injured – she is holding one wing oddly. Harry leaves History of Magic class, and goes to the staff room to find someone who might be able to help Hedwig; Professor Grubbly-Plank is there, and says she'll have Hedwig back in shape in a few days. Harry and Professor Grubbly-Plank almost forget the message Hedwig is carrying, which is from Sirius Black.
Inspected by Professor Umbridge in her role as Hogwarts High Inquisitor, Professor Grubbly-Plank passes inspection without difficulty, despite the fact that she obviously supports Dumbledore. Professor Grubbly-Plank continues teaching Care of Magical Creatures up until November when Hagrid returns from his mission.
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[edit] Analysis
[edit] Questions
- Why might Dumbledore have chosen Hagrid instead of Grubbly-Plank to teach Care of Magical Creatures?
- What are the main differences between Professor Grubbly-Plank's lessons and Hagrid's?
