On the next morning, every student in Shiz marvelled at the enormous amounts of snow that had fallen in the previous night. In fact, the load of snow was so heavy that the large front portal couldn't be opened anymore, neither could any other door or window on the ground level.
"We're snowed in!", Glinda complained enraged. "I was planning on going to town today! I can't be stuck here now!"
"Looks like you're going to have to put up with the fact that nobody will come or go from this place today", Elphaba lectured her.
Glinda grunted with displeasure and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"Fine. So what do we do now?"
"We could play a game", Fiyero suggested.
"A game?"
"I spy with my little eye, something white and cold."
"Very funny. Do you even have all your Lurlinemas presents together already? I thought you were going to go buy yours today as well?", Glinda teased her boyfriend.
"That is true, but unlike you, I don't have a heap of social events to appear at, hence I have a lot of time left to look for gifts", Fiyero retorted cheekily.
"Touché", Glinda replied listless and laid her arms and head on the table in front of her.
"I wish something would just come and swoop all that snow away."
All of a sudden, she jerked up energetically.
Neither Fiyero nor Elphaba reacted surprised as they were used to Glinda's antics.
"I'll be right back", the blonde announced and left the common room without any further explanation.
After a while she strutted back into the room, a triumphant grin spread across her face.
"I fixed it."
"Fixed what?", Elphaba asked dumbfounded.
"The snow issue."
"But what did you need to fix about that?"
Elphaba sounded concerned, which threw Glinda off a little bit.
"Elphie, I simply need the time to go to the town today, I can't sit around here all day, so I took care of the problem."
"How do you think you did that?"
"I magicked it away."
"You did what?!", Elphaba exclaimed alarmed.
"This was typical of her roommate, she always acted without thinking first.
"But Glinda, we haven't even talked about that in the tutorial and with all the things you pronounced wrong last time, you know how fatal that can end!"
Elphaba was furious. Why did her friend always have to act so irresponsibly?!
The other people in the common room started mumbling and pointing out the window.
Glinda looked around nervously, the grin wiped off her face.
"It's snowing again", someone said.
"I've never seen snowflakes this big!", someone else said.
"And they're falling so thickly and so fast!", a third person threw in and slowly, the room filled with oohs and aahs of people looking out the windows.
"Oh Glinda, what have you done?"
"I- I tried to reduce the snow, not make it fall faster", Glinda uttered nervously.
"Did you confuse 'maiorem' and 'maioram' again? You know that 'maioram' makes things increase, do you? Have you used a spell that had that word in it?"
"I might have...?", Glinda whined guiltily and looked to the ground.
"Good, at least I can try and reverse it then."
Elphaba muttered a chant, but the snow didn't stop falling.
"Hm, it doesn't seem to work", she declared, looking sorry for her friend's misfortune.
"How high are the chances for Madame Morrible finding out it was me?", Glinda asked distraught.
"Considering that there are only two students in her tutorial, only one of which doesn't know the difference between spells, I fear the luck is not on your side with this one."
As if Elphaba's prognosis needed to be underlined, Madame Morrible burst into the room.
"Miss Glinda Upland, what in Oz have you done?!"