Harold

Assistant Professor Harold is a character who appears in the comic series. He is an aspiring young wizard who attends Oskuria College and who resealed the demon that was released from Pandora's Box that was kept in his school. This earned him his assistant professor position as the faculty saw just how talented he was.

Appearance
Harold is shorted than the Winx and his fellow students. He has blonde hair with long bangs swept to the right, amber eyes, and a light tan complexion. He wears glasses with red square frames.

He is only seen in his school's uniform which is a white collared shirt, lime-green coat, red tie, gray short trousers, lime-green knee high socks with thick orange lining, and gray loafers.

Personality
A nice and kind boy, Harold is a good person but this also made him gullible and naive which allowed his bullies to take advantage of him. Harold sees this as an exchange in that he gets to hang out with them though they get him into trouble for their amusement. Though is not completely unaware of their terrible personalities and understands that he cannot overpower them. So he patiently waits it out.

He is intelligent, knowledgeable, studious, hardworking and dedicated which can be seen when spent long nights translating ancient language to reseal the demon the Trix released from Pandora's Box.

Pre-Comics
At some point in his life, he got accepted into Oskuria College and began studying there. His bullies, Torby, Altery and Caffel, took note of his intelligence and took advantage of it. In exchange for being able to hang out with them Harold must do all their assignments. Harold however, still continues his studies with due diligence.

Season 3
As with everyone else, Harold is aware of there being a select group of fairies and witches who will be ambassadors for their type of magic lessons. He is excited for it because he will get to learn something new but in the midst of their guests settling in, his bullies (though he considers them "friends"), Torby, Altery and Caffel, force him to eavesdrop on Professor Ozeris and the fairies he is escorting. Harold takes a peak through the door which Ozeris quickly noticed and confronts him about it his actions. Scolding him for it and giving him punishment while his "friends" laugh at his misery. Harold sheepishly accepts the punishment he is given.

Once Ozeris finishes escorting the fairies and leaves, Harold is forced to knock on the girls' door. When Stella opens it, Harold tells his "friends" this and is shoved aside by Torby who makes his move on the girls. Because Torby failed to introduce him, Harold does it himself to which Torby angrily tells that he was not given permission to do so. This outs Torby's horrible personality to the girls which they did not take well. Harold is forced to guard the door but Stella asks him to open the door. She, Tecna and Aisha blast the three bullies out of their room. Stella also tells Harold but with kindness that she and her friends are also tired from their trip and would like to rest.

The next day, like his fellow students, he is also in the conference room listening to the Winx's lecture of which he eagerly and enthusiastically takes plenty of notes on. After their lecture, he approaches them and compliments them. Bloom takes notice of his dedication to which he explains that he plans to one day join Oskuria College's faculty, a dream which Bloom has no doubt that he will succeed. Torby then aggressively reminds him that he has to write their summaries of the lecture for him, Altery and Caffel. Harold is about to excuse himself when Stella asks why he is allowing them to treat him like that. He gives an excuse for Torby: he is not evil and just knows he likes to study and in return for doing their assignments, he gets to have their company. Then he excuses himself because he has a lot of work to do.

At midnight, Harold is dragged into the basement by Torby and his friends to unlock the room that keeps Pandora's Box for the Trix. All Torby wants to do is show the witches that he is tough that is until Icy tries to open it. Upon blasting the box with magic, it opens briefly and its might is made known. Icy's magical blast has unlocked the box. Harold notices the inscriptions on the box and quickly writes it down.

He then heads to the library and begins studying the ancient text. A tedious task which kept him up all night and caused him to sleep through a potion lab class. Torby yells at him for neglecting his (Torby's) homework. So, Harold scurries away and when Stella asks when he will finally tell Torby off, Harold explains he cannot do that because he is smaller than him. He also cannot allow Stella to take care of them either. He also wanted to tell the fairies of the incident with Pandora's Box only for Icy silence him with a glare. Harold scurries away and finishes translating the ancient text, and it is bad news.

He quickly goes to speak with the Winx and tells them what happened. As it turns out, since Icy failed to successfully open it, it made the demons even stronger. And the Trix are planning to finish what they started with a new spell. Harold and the Winx follow them. The Trix does free the demon but they could not control it. So the demon starts destroying everything in its path. The Winx also have no luck attacking it. Harold also informs them that the demon is far stronger than all of them. While Harold in his notes for a way to seal it, the Winx do their best in trapping it.

He finds the spell and with his magic wand, develops the Winx's current spell which effectively defeats the demon forever. This talent of his did not go unnoticed as one of the professors appoints him to assistant professor, the youngest in their institute's history.

In a few days, his portrait is hung on the faculty wall and he is congratulated by the Winx as they are about to head home. And it is also great news that not only will he be respected, he will not need to do other students' homework but rather give them homework.

Magical Abilities
Like all wizards, he possesses their standard mystical abilities but it is unknown which alignment he falls into. To cast his spells, he uses his magic wand.

Trivia

 * His name is of English origin, derived from the Old English name Hereweald which is derived from here "army" and weald "power, leader, ruler".