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Students

Henrietta "Hettie" Hubble

Henrietta "Hettie" Hubble

Portrayed by: Alice Connor

Mildred's younger cousin and the main character of The New Worst Witch, who attends Cackle's Academy after Mildred has finished her education. Rather more talented and confident than her cousin, but with a tendency to overestimate herself and subsequently land herself in scrapes too big for her to handle.

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• Brilliant, but Lazy: She's a quick learner and has lots of magic talent — and she's well aware of this, which is why she always tries to go for the quickest and easiest solutions; she tends to just assume she'll be an Instant Expert at anything she tries without putting in the work.
• Catchphrase: "Oops."
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: While Hettie shares her cousin's tendency to get into trouble, the reason why is almost the opposite: Mildred is a well-meaning Klutz who tended to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, while Hettie is a Brilliant, but Lazy schemer who tends to bite off more than she can chew. She's also a lot more brash and cheeky than Friend to All Living Things Mildred.
• Didn't Think This Through: Her main character flaw, and the main reason why her Zany Schemes tend to backfire. How much trouble could she have saved herself if she'd just taken a few minutes to think before she acted?
• Establishing Character Moment: Just like her cousin Mildred got hers in the first episode of the 1998 series, Hettie gets hers in the first episode of The New Worst Witch. She's introduced flying her broomstick through the forest up to Cackle's, with the adult Mildred as a passenger, expertly dodging trees and ignoring Mildred's pleas of taking it easy. Then, when landing, she discovers she's been flying in the wrong direction and ends up being late to Cackle's anyway. This pretty neatly establishes her notable magical talent and expert broomstick flying, as well as her tendency not to think ahead and ignore well-meant advice.
• Innocently Insensitive: She always means well, but her tendency to speak and act without thinking, as well as her knack for forgetting that other people have different feelings and priorities than she does, often leads to her coming across as insensitive and disregarding of others' feelings.
• Mouthy Kid: She can be this at times, talking back to Miss Hardbroom in ways that Mildred never would.
  Miss Hardbroom: Girls must wear regulation uniform at all times.
  Hettie: (indignantly) Even in the shower?
• Nice Girl: It seems to be as much of a Hubble trait as the talent for getting into scrapes. Hettie's brash and outspoken, has a bit of an ego, and can be Innocently Insensitive at times, but she's friendly and generous to a fault.
• Small Name, Big Ego: While she is a very talented witch, she's not quite as talented as she thinks she is.
• Unwanted Assistance: She always wants to help, whether her help is actually wanted or not. In fact, even if you repeatedly tell her not to do anything to help you, she'll still go out of her way to help you behind your back.
• Zany Scheme: Becomes her trademark after a while; she can seldom let an episode pass without trying to pull off one of these.

Mona Hallow

Mona Hallow

Portrayed by: Annabel Barnston

The youngest of the Hallow sisters by a number of years, and Hettie's friend in The New Worst Witch. Scientifically-minded and bookish, she has a somewhat strained relationship with her family — particularly with her father and her older sister Ethel.

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• Black Sheep: Certainly views herself as this for the Hallow family; she has no patience for the old witching traditions that her family holds so dear, and takes a much more modern and scientific approach to magic.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's got a very dry sense of humor.
• Fiery Redhead: She's the only Hallow with red hair, and while her temper isn't explosive, she is totally fearless and never backs down.
• Innocently Insensitive: She always means well, but she doesn't always filter what she says.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: While she never interacts with her sisters on-screen, she manages to be a contrast to all of them:
  • Ethel is stuck-up, snobbish and can be a bit of a bully. Mona is friendly, helpful and will stand up for bully victims.
  • Sybil is a timid pessimist. Mona is bold and optimistic.
  • Though it's unclear whether or not the two even exist in the same timeline, since they are both Canon Foreigners created for two different adaptations, the competent and friendly Esmerelda is definitely the sister that Mona has the most in common with. And yet she manages to be a contrast to Esmerelda as well — while Esmerelda embraces witching traditions and is the darling of the teachers, Mona eschews traditions in favor of progress, and gets in trouble a lot more.
• The Smart Guy: Probably the smartest student in Mildred's year, and not at all shy about it — though she does manage to avoid becoming an Insufferable Genius.

Crescentmoon "Cressie" Winterchild

Crescentmoon "Cressie" Winterchild

Portrayed by: Paislie Reid

An artistic and sensitive member of the "Hedge witch" community, and Hettie's other friend in The New Worst Witch. As a hedge witch, she observes a number of customs and superstitions that are unfamiliar or even downright strange to other witches.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: "I'm sensitive, I'm artistic, I'm highly strung. Humor me — or else!"
• Cuckoo Snarker: She's often a little out of it and sometimes her logic only makes sense to her, but she can more than hold her own in a Snark-to-Snark Combat.
• Genius Ditz: Cressie is much slower on the uptake than Hettie or Mona, and she can be downright dense at times, but she's a skilled witch and pulls off some impressive displays of magic.
• Granola Girl: Hedge witches have a tendency to be this, and Cressie is no exception. She's a strict vegetarian and believes in the purity of nature. When carving pumpkins for Halloween, she insists on eating all the innards because "otherwise it's cruelty to vegetables."
• Lovable Coward: She's far less brave than Hettie and Mona, and usually the one to worry that things will go wrong.
• New-Age Retro Hippie: Downplayed, but definitely there. She enjoys meditating, she often talks about karma and negative vibrations, and she describes the hedge witch community as "filled with beauty, serenity, and harmony." At one point she tried to get out of taking a test because "hedge witches don't believe in tests, Miss Hardbroom! They create bad cosmic vibrations!" Needless to say, Miss Hardbroom did not accept this excuse.
• Oop North: She speaks in a Lancashire accent.
• Time Travel: She discovers in the first season that she's a Time Witch, with a natural ability to alter time. She shares this ability with Miss Cackle.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Winning tends to bring out the worst in her, which is one reason why she doesn't like participating in contests. The other reason is that she's also a bit of a Sore Loser.

Belladona Bindweed

Belladonna Bindweed

Portrayed by: Francesca Isherwood

The resident school bully in ''The New Worst Witch." She's the granddaughter of Betty Bindweed, one of Agatha Cackle's henchwomen, and is still secretly on Agatha's side, acting as a sort of inside informant at times.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She looks sweet and innocent, and she milks this for all it's worth, playing Teacher's Pet and pretending to be a model student and Nice Girl. In the first season of The New Worst Witch she tends to get away with it too, making her a bit of a Karma Houdini.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Just like Hettie is a contrast to Mildred, Belladonna is a contrast to Ethel. While they are both petty and malicious bullies who tend to be unfairly favored by the teachers, Ethel was an excellent student who would occasionally get a My God, What Have I Done? moment when she realized she'd gone too far, and would even have the odd Enemy Mine with Mildred when they teamed up to save the school. Belladonna is a below-average student and has absolutely no scruples; she'll cheerfully watch the school burn and actively tries to help Agatha Cackle and her cronies take over.
• Dumb Blonde: Downplayed, but while Belladonna does have a fair bit of cunning, she is definitely Book Dumb, doing poorly in classes and generally not being as clever as she thinks she is.
• False Friend: She'll be all pleasant if she wants something, but she'll sell anyone out at a moment's notice if she thinks that's in her own best interest. It's especially clear in her relationship with Cynthia; she is usually perfectly friendly to her, but it's purely because she sees the value of having a partner-in-crime. If Cynthia's in a fix, Belladonna won't lift a finger to help her.
• Karma Houdini: In the first season. She even smugly Lampshades it to Cynthia, pointing out how she always gets away with everything. By the time the second season comes around, though, the teachers seem to have caught on, and she loses her Karma Houdini status.
• Manipulative Bitch: She loves to play this part, always trying to manipulate others to do what she wants.
• Smug Snake: She has absolutely no sympathy or respect for anyone, and she treats everyone with disdain unless she is trying to manipulate them.
• Teacher's Pet: Of the most insincere type. Belladonna has no real respect for the teachers, but knows how to suck up to them in order to make herself look good in their eyes. It works for the most part in the first season, though by the second season the teachers seem to have caught on — Miss Hardbroom in particular goes from treating Belladonna favorably in the first season to having absolutely no patience with her in the second.

Cynthia Horrocks

Cynthia Horrocks

Portrayed by: Daisy Hughes.

A transfer student from Pentangle's in The New Worst Witch. Stuck-up and snobbish, and not all that bright, she doesn't like Cackle's Academy all that much and tends to hang out with Belladonna Bindweed purely because nobody else tolerates her.

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• Arch-Enemy: Sets herself up as this to Mona, because Mona's father was the one who drove her father out of business, thereby ruining him and forcing her to transfer from Pentangle's to the far less fancy Cackle's.
• Beta Bitch: Falls into this role with Belladonna quite easily.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Not quite as good at it as Belladonna, but she makes a good effort.
• Comically Missing the Point: Has a tendency to do this at the worst possible times.
• The Ditz: She does not have Belladonna's cunning, even though she tries to pretend.
• Even Evil Has Standards: A thoroughly unpleasant person, but unlike Belladonna she will occasionally display that she has a conscience.
• False Friend: Perhaps the one thing she does better than Belladonna is pretend that their friendship means something. At times she actually seems to care about Belladonna... but it's all an act. She's just as ready to ditch Belladonna if that's in her best interest. Illustrated perfectly in the episode where the girls accidentally take an "opposite potion" that takes their most prominent traits and makes them the opposite. As soon as Cynthia and Belladonna are affected, they share a joyful hug and proclaim themselves to be the bestest of best friends.
• Last-Name Basis: Most people call her "Horrocks."

Dyllis Mustardseed

Dyllis Mustardseed

Portrayed by: (Narisha Lawson)

The least popular girl at Cackle's Academy in The New Worst Witch. Dyllis is actually very sweet and upbeat, but has the unfortunate tendency to choose the wrong girls to try and befriend.

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• Extreme Doormat: She's so desperate to be liked that she refuses to stand up for herself.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Combined with Easily Forgiven towards Belladonna. It couldn't be clearer that Belladonna hates her, and yet she keeps wanting to hang around her.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Dyllis is very aware of her lack of popularity, and sometimes does foolish things in the hope that this will make the others like her.
• Stalker without a Crush: Or possibly with a crush. She really, really. really wants to be Belladonna's friend, and is always following her around, to the point where it looks like she's nursing a pretty heavy crush on her. Belladonna can't stand Dyllis, but sometimes takes advantage of the girl by hinting that they could be friends if Dyllis will just do this one thing for her...
• Yes-Man: She'll enthusiastically go along with anything Belladonna says. Her eagerness to please in general often leads her to exaggerating, like when Miss Hardbroom sends her out to collect a spleenwart leaf, she returns with an entire plant bigger than herself.

Teachers

Miss Nightingale

Miss Nightingale

Portrayed by: Indra Ove

The art teacher at Cackle's in The New Worst Witch. She's very kind and understanding towards the students, and like Miss Drill before her is often at odds with Miss Hardbroom about how to deal with them.

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• Cool Teacher: The students adore her. Miss Hardbroom does not.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She vanishes inexplicably between season and is replaced by her Suspiciously Similar Substitute, Miss Widget.
• Last-Name Basis: Well, most of the teachers are generally called by their last names in general, but Miss Nightinggale is a somwhat unique case in that she's the only teacher in the entire series who is never called by her first name by anyone.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: An older version, and obviously not in any romantic sense, but her behaviour definitely fits this. She encourages creativity and passion, and is always trying to liven up the school.

Miss Myrtle Widget

Miss Myrtle Widget

Portrayed by: Elizabeth Bower

The art teacher at Cackle's who takes over the job from Miss Nightinggale. A little more brash, energetic and sarcastic than her predecessor, but with the same passion for art and creativity.

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• Cloudcuckoolander: She has some strange ideas sometimes, she dresses like a hippie and she has a definite fondness for True Art Is Incomprehensible.
• Genki Girl: An older version, but her lessons are energetic. Her "self-expression workshop" is a study in organized chaos, with students running around while Miss Widget plays the drums and shouts "Wonderful! LET IT ALL OOOOUT!"
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She fulfills roughly the same role as Miss Nightinggale did.

Caspian Bloom

Caspian Bloom

Portrayed by: Ian Lindsay

The school librarian and resident wizard at Cackle's Academy in The New Worst Witch. More likely to be found asleep over his desk or eating jam doughnuts than actually doing his job, but he repeatedly demonstrates that he shouldn't be underestimated.

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• Cool Old Guy: With traces of Grumpy Old Man, but if you treat him with respect he's actually very friendly and helpful.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's absent-minded and often seems like he's not all there, but he's actually very handy to have around in a crisis. Not only does he have a lot of knowledge and can spot the details other people miss, but he's a pretty powerful wizard.
• Senior Sleep-Cycle: He's often found asleep over his desk.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Jam doughnuts. Though he laments that they have less jam in them nowadays than they did when he was young.

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