 The TV episode "Learning the Hard Way" centres on Miss Gabrielle Gribble, in which she is introduced as a student teacher from Weirdsister College.She is revealed to be Miss Cackle's niece (confirmed when she refers to Miss Cackle as "Auntie Amelia").In "Learning the Hard Way", Miss Gribble takes over teaching the potions lessons from Miss Hardbroom but she is not very nice and the girls begin to tease her (calling her "Gabby Dribble" and leaving green goo in her desk and pretending to be allergic to chalk dust, as well as Enid Nightshade turning herself blue and pretending to turn into completely inanimate trees).