Mrs Oddbod

For her TV series counterpart, see Miss Oddbod.
Mrs Oddbod is the headmistress of the school. She is mostly in her office or hosting school assemblies. She makes her first appearance in "Horrid Henry's School Project", but is mentioned in several stories previously.
==Description==
Mrs Oddbod has pale skin, rosy cheeks and blonde hair in a ponytail. She wears glasses, a grey jacket, a white shirt and a dark grey skirt. In "Horrid Henry's School Election", she wears a frilly white dress.
==Personality ==
She appears to be sterner in the books than in the TV series. Despite that, she still recognises Peter's good behaviour and chooses him to greet the Queen when she visits her school.
==Appearances==
*"Horrid Henry's New Teacher" (mentioned): Mr Nerdon sends Perfect Peter to her office after he thinks Peter tricked him.
*"Horrid Henry's Sports Day" (mentioned): Miss Battle-Axe sends Perfect Peter to her office for bringing the eggs in, after Henry swaps the hard-boiled eggs for raw ones.
*"Horrid Henry's Computer" (mentioned): Miss Lovely sends Perfect Peter to her office after she reads Peter's rude essay about her, which Henry edited.
*"Horrid Henry's School Project": She visits Henry's class, but orders Miss Battle-Axe to her office upon walking into the chaos in her classroom.
*"Horrid Henry's Underpants": She catches Henry and Peter in the toilets at break-time and orders them outside.
*"Moody Margaret Casts a Spell" (referenced): Henry plans to hypnotise her into having just chocolate and cake for school dinners and no PE, then realises he could make her close down the school.
*"Horrid Henry Meets The Queen": She welcomes the Queen to the school and hosts the events, and faints after Henry accidentally covers her in mud along with Miss Battle-Axe and the Queen,
*"Perfect Peter's Revenge" (mentioned): Miss Battle-Axe sends Moody Margaret, Brainy Brian, Rude Ralph, Tough Toby, Vain Violet, Kind Kasim and Fiery Fiona to her office when she discovers the poems Henry wrote about her, signed with their names. She also sends Perfect Peter to her office after he runs into her and knocks her backwards into a bin.
* "Horrid Henry Peeks at Peter's Diary": After Perfect Peter reads out his diary entry (which Henry edited) she tells him to sit down and be quiet, and says she'll see him and his parents later.
* "Horrid Henry's Arch Enemy": She appears in Henry's fantasy where Bossy Bill is expelled from school.
* "Horrid Henry's Christmas Play": She watches Henry's performance in the school play and later calls him to her office for ruining the show.
* "Moody Margaret's Makeover" (referenced): Henry theorises that she would make a perfect Dracula with one of his makeovers.
* "Horrid Henry's Author Visit" (referenced): Henry considers joining in singing the Happy Nappy song and changing the lyrics to rude words to get sent back to his class, but realises that will get him sent to her office instead.
* "Horrid Henry's Newspaper": She shows the school inspector around, and Henry is later called to her office for his newspaper containing embarrassing made-up stories about the teachers.
* "Moody Margaret's School" (mentioned): When Susan suggests she and Margaret take turns pretending to be head, Margaret replies: 'Do you see Mrs Oddbod taking turns being head? I don't think so.'
*"Horrid Henry's School Election": She hosts the assembly announcing that a new school council president will be elected, and explains the job to Henry in her office later.
*"Horrid Henry Wakes the Dead": She hosts the school talent competition.
*"Horrid Henry and the Nudie Foodie": She hosts the assembly announcing Mr Nudie Foodie's arrival, and sends him away from the school after Henry alters his recipes.
*"Horrid Henry and the Revenge of the Demon Dinner Lady": She hosts the assembly, and fires Greasy Greta when she catches her eating the confiscated sweets.
*"Horrid Henry Tells It Like It Is": Mum and Dad are called to a meeting with her in her office, after Henry hands in his video diary in which Dad appeared to be rude about her on-camera.
*"Horrid Henry Changes History:" She visits Miss Battle-Axe's class to tell her that she gave out the wrong topic in the essay competition, and to tell Henry that he would represent the school in the nationwide history quiz and to invite him to her office every day after school for practice.
==Trivia==
*She is married in the books, but seemingly unmarried in the TV series.
*Her first name is never given in the books. In the TV series, her first name is Cynthia.
==Gallery==
File:Mrs Oddbod books.png|"Horrid Henry's School Election" (old image)
Category:Teachers (Francesca Simon Books)