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Professor Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank was a level-headed and pipe-smoking witch who worked as a Substitute Professor for Care of Magical Creatures. She attended a wizarding school, likely Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry unless she was educated at home, after purchasing her wand from Diagon Alley. She achieved an O.W.L. and perhaps even an N.E.W.T in Care of Magical Creatures, which was probably taught by Professor Silvanus Kettleburn at the time. At some point after her graduation, Grubbly-Plank became a substitute teacher specialising in magical creatures, and would fill in for Care of Magical Creatures professors whenever they were absent. It's unknown exactly how long she had had a career as a substitute professor, but she worked in that career well into her old years, when she had grey, close-cropped hair.

During the 1994-1995 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Grubbly-Plank filled in for Professor Rubeus Hagrid, the Care of Magical Creatures teacher, and taught the fourth year students about Unicorns. The reason for Professor Hagrid's absence was that a defamatory article was written about him by Rita Skeeter, an infamous yellow journalist. After teaching for about a month, Hagrid returned to his teaching post and Grubbly-Plank was sent away, presumably after being payed. The following year, Hagrid was, yet again, absent from the school, and Grubbly-Plank was re-employed to take over his classes until his return. That year, she led the first years from Hogsmeade Station across the Black Lake to the castle, where Professor McGonagall took them over the rules. Later on, her lessons were inspected by Dolores Umbridge, the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, and satisfied her by teaching her fifth years about Crups and Knarls. She nursed Harry Potter's owl, Hedwig, back to health after her attack in October, and left the school during the second week of November.