fienfyre:

- when he finds out that he can’t be in the quidditch team as a first year, he tries to trick his way in by taking an aging potion which ends up with him looking like  a 70-year old for 3 days straight

- he discovers his first secret passage within his 2nd week at hogwarts,,, and it was definitely because he was looking for hiding places after his Great Plan failed (or maybe good places to nap, to give his old bones a break? the world may never know) 

- the reason snape and him actually become enemies is that he overheard him criticizing james’ hair, so james made a poll within all the 1st years about who had the worst hair between the two of them

- snape lost and was never able to get over it

- james’ crush on lily starts in 2nd year when he sees her flip off slughorn’s back after he says for the first time that her potion is ‘acceptable’ and not amazing

- from there on, any time she looks at him, he trips over his own feet, causing peter to genuinely believe he has a serious balance disorder for a couple of weeks

- he can’t stay still and keeps fiddling with things, the happiest day of his life is when remus shows him a muggle pen that he can click during class

- flitwick has low-key hated him ever since

- his research on werewolves in 3rd year leads him to read YA werewolf romances and even at 21, he would defend his favorite trilogy to the death 

- he holds “pun nights” in the gryffindor common room every saturday, and sirius makes him a badge P.R.O.N.G.S. which stands for Potter Recklessly Organizing Notoriously Ghastly Saturdays and this is the true origin of his nickname

- during their first summer together in 5th year, sirius and james are called into the ministry for incorrect use of magic eight times, and no one knows how they got out of it every time

- until the day he dies, james’ only answer to the question is “my charming and irresistible wit…” which always causes him to receive a Look™ from sirius, prompting him to grudgingly add: “…and sirius’ ass”. the latter has never been explained further

- he wears a mohawk somewhere in between 5th and 6th year and not the good artsy kind

- he doesn’t even react when lily finally accepts his invitation out for a date, he’s actually halfway through the corridor before he Realizes

- and then he lets out a little scream, runs back down the corridor and asks everyone if he heard correctly

- and everyone is cheering and yelling in astonishment and basically having a riot in front of the classrooms, so mcgonagall shows up to shut them down but james just says: “she said yes”

- and mcgonagall blinks, gasps and goes “oh my”, before leaving them to party 

- (later that night, remus and sirius take it upon themselves to lecture james loudly about the bees and the birds in the common room where lily is incidentally reading a book, and if they both somehow end up waking up on a mattress in the middle of the lake the next morning well, who says james has anything to do with it?)

- (mcgonagall does. he gets 2 weeks of detention.)