Griselda

Griselda is the assistant headmistress of Alfea.

Personality Profile
Griselda is the assistant headmistress and head of discipline at Alfea; as such, she is very gruff and strict towards students, but is generally kind and to all the fairies at the school as she is shown to care immensely for them. She also has a deep faith in the Alfea fairies shown during one of the Trix' attacks on the school she told them that "fairies do not fear witches".

Appearance
Griselda is a brunette, with straight hair in a short, sharp hairstyle and sharp glasses to match. She often wears a navy blue, smoky blue, or red sailor-type dress.

Pre-series
Griselda used to study at Alfea when she was young.

Seasons
At the beginning of Season 1 she is more stern than usual with Stella and Bloom, because Stella blew up the potions lab before the events of Season 1 and Bloom lied about her identity on her first day, going by the name "Varanda of Callisto". Shortly before the Trix kidnapped Stella, when the Winx are doing kitchen chores, they accidentally cause something to get burnt and Griselda clears away all the smoke, while Flora brings a fire extinguisher, falls down, and accidentally sprays Griselda with foam from the extinguisher. She later has Faragonda punish the Winx for having broken into Cloud Tower by having all their powers removed and giving them the task of cleaning the whole of Alfea without any magic, alone, while the whole of the school staff and students are at a concert in Magix.
 * -|Season 1=

When Bloom had fallen asleep in class, due to constant interaction with Daphne, Griselda ordered her to follow her into Faragonda's office. She reprimanded her for falling asleep and did not take her excuse very well. Faragonda however, stopped her from rebuking any further on Bloom's condition and asked her to summon the advisor commitee.

Griselda comforted Bloom with a cup of hot milk after Bloom had came back from Gardenia. She was shocked to hear from her that the Dragon Flame had been stolen from her. She also notified Faragonda that the Army of Darkness had swarmed the east wing.

She later becomes more kind to the Winx while at the same time remaining strict and at the end of Season 1 she is even seen laughing loudly at the party celebrating the defeat of the Trix, looking very happy, and unlike her normal self.

She is first seen with all the teachers as they reopened the school and presented the now repaired tower that was destroyed during the invasion.
 * -|Season 2=

She was also present when the Winx, minus Bloom, assaulted Professor Avalon and had to explain to the teachers what they had been doing.

In the "Crypt of the Codex" she taught her students self defense against dark magic.

Alfea intensified the fairies' training after finding out Lord Darkar existence, needing a break Aisha suggests they head out for awhile. Bloom, Musa, Stella and Aisha head to Earth and while at a dance club Musa and Aisha ran into some delinquents who saw them use magic, despite Stella and Bloom's timing and helping the two out of the club, they all ended up being cornered.

Griselda and Faragonda found out about their little trip and appeared before the delinquents could get to the Winx and cast a spell on them causing them to pass out. The girls' rejoiced but Griselda was not pleased with their decision. They returned to Faragonda's office and Griselda wastes no time in lecturing them, Faragonda then assigns them their punishment.

Griselda attends Musa's concert at Red Fountain with Saladin, Faragonda, Griffin, Wizgiz, Palladium and DuFour. She also sings along with everyone when Stormy attacks Musa's father.

In "The Time for Truth", Griselda and Professor Avalon sets up an intense exercise for the Winx, minus Flora and Aisha, they sprinkle the willow leaf powder onto them, copying parts of their vital energy. A creature then manifests and Griselda explains that it is a persona of all four of them and they must battle it. The Winx were able defeat it and Griselda praises them.

Francis then tells them that there is a message from Pixie Village and all of them go to Faragonda's office. She watches Flora heal the Tree of Life and jokes about solutions growing on trees.

Griselda has a relative minor role in this season, but has been in several episodes.
 * -|Season 3=

She is still her strict self, but shows compassion in her students.

When Aisha and the Winx arrived from Andros, Griselda is worried about Aisha's blindness and directs all of them to Faragonda's office. After Aisha has been healed, Griselda is happy, but snaps into her strict self and issues the Winx a consequence.

Griselda helped fight back the witches when they had attacked Alfea. She is proud of the Winx for saving the school's magic and scrolls, but is upset that Faragonda went missing.

As the Winx set off to find Faragonda, Griselda bids them good luck while looking worried.

When Tecna was assumed dead, Timmy did not give up on searching for her and soon found a link to her and so everyone heads back to the Omega Dimension. Griselda alerts Faragonda of their departure.

In the episode "The Snake's Lair", Bloom returns to Alfea after earning her Enchantix on Pyros. Griselda greets her and have a chat with her and Faragonda before Bloom asks for permission to leave again, in order to assist in the search for Tecna.

Griselda then sets up a training exercise for Enchantix fairies and observes the Winx as they work through it, she also witnesses Bloom losing control of her Enchantix and falling.

After Valtor made Cloudtower disappear and challenged the head of the magic schools, Griselda was present at a meeting with the other teachers discussing about Faragonda's decision to accept Valtor's challenge.

Valtor releases the spell of the elements after the Trix taunted him, Griselda alerts Saladin, Griffin and Faragonda who were in her office, that Magix was being bombarded by earthquakes. She then heads out to the forest that was set a blazed near Alfea with the Winx and tried to extinguish it but failed. And thus, the Winx were sent to stop the spell of elements and was successful, Griselda welcomed them back.

In the fourth season, she only appears in the first episode, introducing the Winx girls as being new teachers at Alfea, and during the attack of the Wizards of the Black Circle, when she is forced back into the school by Ogron's spell.
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She is seen with the other teachers as Faragonda welcomed the students back. After Tritannus greatly strengthened the Trix's powers, they went to Alfea and tried to destory the Winx in Alfea's archive, Griselda and Faragonda entered the archive after hearing all the commotion and sees Sky fall onto the floor, unconcious. Her appearance also caused the Trix to flee.
 * -|Season 5=

She was also present during the Christmas episode and also in the episode "Trix Tricks", watching the wind rider competition.

In the thirteenth episode, Griselda is seen with Faragonda and Palladium in the simulator room as she reports the Winx's progress on mastering their Harmonix powers to Faragonda.

After a triumphant battle against Tritannus, Griselda is seen attending the celebration being held on Andros.

Griselda appears in the second episode assigning the new students their rooms. She also went to check up on Stella and the girls in their room. Since Stella's boutique is a secret she hid it from her and Griselda did not notice anything out of the ordinary. She is also seen with the other teachers as Faragonda introduces Daphne as the school's new history of magic teacher. She also had no idea it was Faragonda's one hundredth year as headmistress. And even though there was a party, she still kept her strict demeanor.
 * -|Season 6=

After the disappearance of the pixies, Griselda came to check up on the ones who were staying with the Winx in Stella's room, she questioned Stella on her actions when she was seen watering large bushes and reminded her that studying should be her priority instead.

When the Winx returned from Linphea, they were in Daphne's class, but she was not present. Griselda came in and asked where she was.

Specials
When Bloom and Stella came to Alfea, she stop the two, and demanded who Bloom was and why she was here, but Faragonda told her that Bloom's on her list, since she knows her.
 * -|The Fate of Bloom=

When Bloom came back, she was shocked to hear that the Trix had taken her Dragon Flame.
 * -|The Battle for Magix=

After the Phoenix is defeated, she is seen toasting with Faragonda.
 * -|The Shadow Phoenix=

Movies
At the ceremony during which the Winx graduate, during the battle against Mandragora, where she tells Stella and Tecna go back inside Alfea for safety, and Stella disobeys her, telling Griselda that she is no longer the teacher of the Winx and that they don't have to obey to her orders, and when Mandragora attacks the three of them, Griselda attempts to protect Stella and Tecna against Mandragora but is unable to face the witch's attack and finally collapses. She appears again before and during the reconstruction of Alfea as being mildly injured. Finally she attends the ball at the royal palace of Domino after its revival.
 * -|The Secret of the Lost Kingdom=

Magical Abilities

 * Air rollups: a spell used to clear the smoke after the Winx left the kitchen unattended.
 * Barrier Absorb: blocks and absorbs attacks, such as Stella's attacks.
 * Reflect Shield: reflects an attack back to the user.
 * Fer Midex: a shield that blocks and holds attacks, used against Tecna, Flora and Amaryl's attacks.
 * Enversio Cinosmab: absorbs attack, cancelled Musa's soundwave.
 * Raivus Sombnus: a spell used alongside Faragonda to put the delinquents to sleep.
 * Fire Extinguish: a spell that was used during the episode "Wizard's Anger", trying to extinguish the fire in the forest but failed.

Trivia

 * "Griselda" is a Germanic name that means "Dark Battle".
 * While nothing is known about Griselda's personal life out of Alfea and her and past befire the first season, it is very likely that she was once an Alfea student.