Disclaimer: I do not own J.K. Rowling, or her characters, or Hogwarts although I wish I went there. All I own are my ideas, and even some of those belong to J.K. Rowling, such as James deflating his head.
It was last night that he had gotten the idea. He got the idea right after he asked Lily Evans out for what felt like the thousandth time. As his friends often reminded him, it probably was the thousandth time since he was in his sixth year and had been asking her out nearly every day since third year.
James Potter continued to argue with Sirius Black. "Come on Sirius, it's just one hex and I promise you wont get detention."
"James, remind me again why you want me to hex you so your head is ten times its normal size. Don't you think it's big enough already?" Sirius asked.
"Look, I told you already, Lily said last night that she wouldn't go out with me even if I deflated my head to a quarter of its size, so I thought maybe a tenth would work" James replied.
"Come on" said Sirius. "I doubt she even bothers to look at you. Besides, no offense, but you suck at undoing hexes. Your style is more like hexing back."
"That is so not true" snapped James.
"Actually, James, it is." Remus quickly added "Sorry"
"Just inflate it already would you?"
Ten minutes later James and Sirius were heading down to the great hall when they spotted Lily. Before she could hurry off James called out "Lily"
"No James!" she said exasperatedly. "I bloody will not go out with you."
She turned to leave without so much as glancing at James.
"Just look Lily" he called.
She turned around and spotted his swollen head.
Lily was about to ask who had hexed him so she could thank them when she saw Sirius standing by James laughing insanely. If someone had really hexed James besides Sirius, Sirius would be busy hunting them down for revenge, not laughing.
"I would sue Sirius if I was you" she told him.
James rolled his eyes.
"Just watch" he told her.
Sure enough his head began to shrink slowly even though he hadn't said a word. James loved to show off with nonverbal spells. It was going alright until his head was twice its normal size. At that point it continued to shrink, but also turned bright blue- hair and all.
"Hospital wing" Sirius recommended to James as Lily walked off laughing.
It was not quite the impression he had hoped to make. But at least he had made Lily laugh- even if it was at him.
