User blog comment:Supereinstien001/Was James Potter Head Boy?/@comment-71.211.193.40-20120624011401

Yes. James was Head Boy and Lily was Head Girl. You don't need to have been a Prefect to get the position of Head Boy/Girl. Yes, James wasn't exactly...a role model in his younger years, but J.K. and Hagrid both maintained that his big head deflated somewhat in his later years. Why else would Lily have gone for him?

And since the Heads are chosen by the Headmaster, it was probably Dumbledore's way of saying 'get together, you two, because you guys will get married and have a baby boy who is destined to die.'

Knowing Dumbledore...