A/N: Sorry for not posting yesterday, it was a busy day :/

"I- I- thought..."

"Well, you thought, you thought, you thought nothing, that's what you thought! This is the most irresponsible thing that any student of mine has ever done and believe me, Miss Upland, I have seen a lot of stupidious things in my life already!"

Madame Morrible's voice was ringing in Glinda's ears.

She hadn't meant to cause this much of a mess!

"As you're surely aware, this building has seen quite a few years by now and your little experiment nearly made the roof collapse under the weight of the snow. I was able to prevent any more increasement of snowfall, thank Oz."

"I really didn't mean to..."

"It does not matter if you wanted this or not, this circus that has been going on around here over the impending holidays, is something I will not tolerate any longer!"

By now, the entire common room was listening to the headmistress' tirade.

"What do you mean, Madame?", someone asked.

"What I mean is, I am not going to allow any further preparations for the Lurlinemas Ball nor anything else that is related to this holiday. It is officially cancelled."

She turned around and left the room with flowing robes.

The students remained in silence for a little while, processing what had just happened.

Then, the uproar broke loose.

"Is this serious?!"

"Can she just cancel Lurlinemas?"

"Well, she can here!"

"I think I might go home for the holidays earlier then."

"This is so unfair, who is responsible for this?"

"Glinda Upland, from the first year."

"I always thought she was so smart and perfect?!"

The longer the students discussed the scene that had just unrolled before their eyes, the more audible became the common opinion, obtained by one student after another.

"This is all Glinda's fault."

The petite blonde stood on the side of the room, accompanied by Elphaba and Fiyero, looking as heartbroken as ever.

"I have destroyed Lurlinemas", she whispered, on the verge of bursting into tears.

"If you had just chosen the right spell..."

Elphaba's words were accusing but her voice sounded compassionate.

Little by little, students started passing by the trio and spitefully glaring at Glinda or even tossing some hateful words at her.

"Enough!", Elphaba finally exclaimed and climbed on the nearest chair.

"Stop treating Glinda like a piece of rubbish, all she was trying to do was elevating the snow so you people could go and buy presents! No need to attack her now!"

"Shut up, Greenie, don't try and defend her, she messed up this time!"

Elphaba didn't let them discourage her.

"Maybe she messed up but it was for your own good!"

"Well, now nobody's happy either so she might as well have done nothing!"

"Now that's just nonsense!"

Elphaba was getting mad at her fellow students for being so harsh with Glinda whom they usually adored so much.

"Who asked you, anyways?", someone shouted and the rest started agreeing.

"Yes, can't she defend herself?"

Elphaba glanced at her miserable roommate who was standing in a corner, protected by Fiyero, tears glimmering in her eyes.

Elphaba met eyes with the Vinkun and he nodded.

"Elphaba is right", he said, raising his voice over the disgruntled crowd, "Glinda only tried to help. Besides, who of you would even have the brains to perform any magic spell at all?"

"Obviously, there is not much brains necessary if Glinda can do it!"

They really were angry.

Usually, not even the people who didn't like Glinda said anything against her openly.

Elphaba tried to think of anything to say so she could ease the hatred against her friend.

"It was my idea! She simply was the one acting it out."

"Typical", someone snorted.

"I knew that Glinda wasn't that stupid."

"So it's your fault, you better find a way to fix this, Greenie."

Wow, they really were happy to have found another scapegoat so fast, Elphaba thought.

She tried to ignore the fact that the students had been more than willing to believe her flimsy excuse, as long as it provided them with one more reason to hate her.

"I don't know how to thank you", Glinda muttered in a tearful voice.

"Don't mention it, they'll always much rather loathe me than you, so this was an easy way out."

"You really do have a thick skin", Fiyero stated appreciatorily.

"I have to say, it's more that I've gotten used to it by now, I don't really care anymore."

The three started heading out of the common room, where most of the students were still discussing the holiday fiasco.

"So, now the question is, how are we going to make this Lurlinemas celebration happen?"