James can just about guess who each of his gifts are from, but there's one small parcel that he can't pinpoint. It's nestled among the others, plain enough, and when he rattles it he can't make out any particular sound. James has never been one to turn down a gift, so he tears the ribbon off and opens the box, and in seconds there's glitter bursting out and covering him, all over his face and his clothes.

As pranks go, it's relatively harmless, and James laughs even as he blinks away glitter. A quick wave of his wand gets the worst of it off his face but he doesn't bother with the rest of it. It's stuck to his clothes and his hair and in patches along his cheek and jaw but this is a party, so he figures to hell with it. He can rock the glitter look.

When he turns he catches Lila's eye in the crowd, and it makes entirely more sense. It's a Sirius kind of prank, but James is usually in on Sirius's, so that leaves Lila. He supposes he should have been more prepared for retaliation. He's a little surprised to see her here, in all honesty, but Lily seems to have invited all sorts of people, and he doesn't really begrudge her. Lila is a pain in the neck and has a tendency to pierce her words a little too close to home, but James doesn't dislike her, necessarily. He heads over, running his hand through his hair to dislodge some of the glitter, but it's a useless effort.

"Not bad," he commends her, nodding his head, "if a little tried and tested."