User blog comment:Supereinstien001/Was James Potter Head Boy?/@comment-4643582-20120331170307/@comment-4643582-20120403190017

You are absolutley correct in saying that the reason he was chosen Head Boy was that he had matured and "deflated his head a bit." I am certain that the "old" James would not have been chosen. My argument simply complements that by saying that given these changes, the fact that he was not a prefect did not preclude him from being Head Boy.