In Out of Oz I was absolutely shocked after La Mombey, Eminence of Munchkinland, cast a spell that called each person in the room's past forward. Liir Thropp, son of Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West, had been turned into a Black Elephant (capitalized since he was a talking animal) and La Mombey was trying to turn him back into a human. She managed this, but also changed others in the room. Liir's daughter, Rain, who had been born green but was turned white by a Serpent when she was just a baby for her own protection, turned green again. All of this completely confused me at first, but I did catch on after a few pages. However, the father and daughter changing were only the beginning of the weirdness.
One of the people in the room when the spell was cast was Tip, who had been a helper of La Mombey. After the spell engulfed him, he turned into a woman. It turned out Tip was really the long lost Ozma, a ruling family of Oz for hundreds of years that was thought to be dead. La Mombey had disguised Tip for her own benefit. This took me a while to grasp. It was an absolutely weird, shocking event. After I began to understand what had happened, I was able to enjoy the book again.
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