If you haven't figured it out by now, Ella is a klutz. Mandy doesn't know how to break the spell, and she doesn't recommend that Ella ask Lucinda to do it, since, you know, Lucinda has already caused enough trouble. Then you'd be responsible for trying to fix that, too. Ella finally gets it: any time you perform magic, something could go wrong. See, you never know what the consequences of a magical act might be. Mandy refuses because it's big magic, and big magic is dangerous. Again, Ella asks Mandy to demonstrate her fairy powers, by, say stopping the rain. But she does have tiny fairy feet, lucky her! The small shoe sizes are always the only ones on sale. Ella's mom's side of the family also has some fairy blood, but not enough to let them do magic or live forever. Lady Eleanor had Mandy as a fairy godmother because the people in her family are official Friends of Fairies, and there aren't too many of them left. Like Mandy, most fairies prefer to masquerade as human because (1) when people find out that someone's a fairy, they want the fairy to use their magic to fix everything, and (2) fairies are immortal, which humans hate. Apparently Lucinda (the fairy who "blessed" Ella with obedience) is the only one stupid enough to go around flaunting her powers like that. 
Anyway, Ella asks Mandy to prove that she's a fairy by disappearing or something, and Mandy refuses.Ella is skeptical, since Mandy has frizzy gray hair and a double chin, and aren't fairies supposed to be young and beautiful? When they stop crying, Mandy says that she was also Ella's mom's fairy godmother.
But if Mandy's a fairy, why did Ella's mom die? Mandy says that she didn't know how sick Ella's mom was until it was too late, and, anyway, even fairies can't stop someone from dying. Ella eats the carrot soup just like Mandy has ordered her too, but her mind is totally blown by the news that Mandy is a fairy.
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