Cloud Tower

Cloudtower School for Witches
Location	Magix
Headmistress	Headmistress Griffin
Staff	List of Cloudtower staff members

Cloudtower is a boarding school for witches. At Cloudtower, witches learn about witchcraft. It is the magical competitor and rival of Alfea. Its headmistress is Headmistress Griffin. The campus itself is a huge and vast living organism that had been created in ancient times by powerful witches.

Overview

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Cloudtower, as depicted in the comic series

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Cloudtower School for Witches is proud to have turned out some of the most evil witches in the universe. With a stellar offering courses in Mayhem, Hexes, and several levels of Advanced Evil, Cloudtower is the pinnacle of education in the dark arts.

Cloudtower is hard to enter, as there is a defense field surrounding it. There are ways of getting past this defense, however: tunnels that connect the schools, ways to get past the field itself, and one may enter if one is invited, for example, Valtor transforming into a stag chased by wolves (actually the Trix). Along with that, the tower can be manipulated like a high tech confusion device by the one who is able to control it. This twists the building into forming new corridors or passages to confuse all those inside.

Places mentioned in the tower are the Trix's dorm, the amphitheater, Headmistress Griffin's office, the cafeteria and the Windswept terrace.

Series

Season 1

For most of Season 1, it was the residence for the Trix until they were expelled. Later in the season, the Trix took over Cloudtower and caused disaster after they stole the Dragon's Flame from Bloom.

Season 2

The Tower appears again when the Winx are temporarily transferred there to protect the Codex piece kept there. The Winx, with Mirta as guide, then have to learn using their dark feelings for the witchcraft hearts, much to their inconvenience, as they are usually taught to use their positive feelings in classes at Alfea.

It is also revealed that Cloudtower is not only a building, but also a living creature with a heart, the moats being its roots and the towers its branches, and that it was a magical entity created by extremely powerful witches. Meantime, Mirta and Lucy manage to reconciliate.

The Tower is infiltrated by the Trix who, under the orders of Lord Darkar, try to claim the codex of Cloudtower. Initially, the Trix manage to take control of the Tower, causing it to modify its structure according to their wishes. Later Miss Griffin gains control of the Tower and orders it to come back to its former structure.

After much fighting and wandering in the school, the Winx finally find the location of the Codex and fight the Trix for it but they unable to control the spell they were initially aiming at the Trix and it explodes on themselves, allowing the Trix to steal the Codex fragment.

Cloudtower appears for a last time in the 25th episode of the season, where miss Faragonda contacts miss Griffin to inform her about Lord Darkar who kidnapped Bloom to gain the Ultimate Power.

Miss Griffin accepts to fight together with Faragonda, Codatorta, the Winx and the Specialists against the Ruler of Shadow Haunt. After Darkar's defeat, all the witches of Cloudtower go to the party organized at Alfea, having apparently put aside their rival-ship with the fairies after the Winx girls' temporary transfer there.

Season 3

When Valtor grew tired of his hideout in Andros, Trixs suggested Cloudtower as their new hideout, however it was protected by magical barrier. Valtor transformed into an deer and Trixs transformed into wolves in order to trick witches to let Valtor through the barrier. He imprisoned Griffin at dungeons and took over students minds and ordered them to attack Alfea, but fairies managed to repel their attack. Valtor used Cloud Tower for long while and travelled to countless worlds to steal their magic.

Winx however attacked Cloudtower in order to find Valtor and get revenge for Tecna, who dissappeared into Omega portal. They freed Griffin and Bloom faced Valtor, who however took an upper hand in the fight and lied about Bloom parents having been destroyed by him. Faragonda and Saladin however appeared for aid for Winxs and they managed to repel Valtors powers and leave back to Alfea.

Valtor and Trix left Cloudtower eventually, freeing all the witchs from under the mind control and moved to new hideout and Griffin regained her position as headmistress. Valtor however announced an challenge for Faragonda, Griffin and Saladin, making Cloudtower dissappear in the process. Winx later investigated Cloudtowers dissappearance in order for Bloom to find truth about fight between Valtor and her parents. It was revealed, that Valtor didnt destroy or transfer the tower, but he had consealed it with an spell that Winx broke with their fairy dust.

When Valtor attacked Magix with elemental spell, he ordered water from Lake Roccaluce to flood the Cloudtower. After Bloom defeated Valtor along with rest of the Winx, water started to return into lake (Cloudtower looking like an enormous fountain as Ms Griffin herself stated) and Cloudtower returned back to normal.

Season 6

As new students arrive to the Cloudtower, an Earth witch, Selina shows Ms Griffin powers of her Legendarium and causes chaos in the Pixie Vilage. As Trix see this power and want to use it their advantage, they attack, turning Ms Griffin into an grow and making Cloudtower fly by extracting it from the mountains. Trix then take over and promises to teach Selina dark magic in exchange for her to use Legendarium for them.

Trix dont only make Cloudtower fly, but they also use it to travel between realms, starting with Linphea and its college.

Staff

Headmistress Griffin

Main article: Griffin

Headmistress Griffin is the headmistress of Cloudtower, and she was a member of the Company of Light.

Ediltrude

Main article: Ediltrude

Professor Ediltrude is a witch that teaches Hexes at Cloudtower and sister of Zarathustra.

Zarathustra

Main article: Zarathustra

Professor Zarathustra is a witch that teaches Mayhem at Cloudtower and sister of Ediltrude.

Bittersmoke

Main article: Bittersmoke

Professor Bittersmoke appears in the Winx Club comics series and mentioned in the cartoon show only; is a kind (but stern) elderly male witch and potions master and because of this he gets very little respect from many students at Cloudtower. He is revealed to be a sleepwalker in the comics and has to be locked in his bedroom at night to keep from roaming the castle.

Known Students

• Icy is a former student. She was expelled.
• Darcy is a former student. She was expelled.
• Stormy is a former student. She was expelled.
• Mirta is a former student. She transferred to Alfea in season two.
• Lucy is Mirta's only friend at Cloudtower and was also an underling for Icy, Darcy and Stormy.
• Selina is a student at Cloudtower.
• Shilly is a student at Cloudtower.

Trivia

• In the original Italian version, the school is called Torrenuvola.
• Cloudtower didn't appear during the fourth season and only made a cameo in the fifth season. In sixth season however it is part of main plot.
• Cloudtower is only known school for witches in the series.