There was a really good chance for him to shine. Just moments before, the store was filled with kids trying to find things to entertain themselves with during the summer and to show their parents, even muggle-kids and James didn't care a little bit. The employee that had come to him, which name he still didn't know but that wouldn't be important for what he wanted, had signaled him into another room. The back room. He'd never been there, for all the years he was there and the girl obviously recognized him, and she knew he was one of the usual costumers as the prankster he is. And he wanted to show her that after the Weasley Twins, and her, he was the best prankster the magical world had to see, and maybe that would be the one thing that would bond him with the other muggle-borns or half-bloods, the love he had for playing pranks.
She lifted her hand and told him to follow her, then showing him through the employee's corridor after opening a curtain, and just shortly after he was at her office, most probably, since she was the owner and it seemed to be filled with new orders of things, and some of them he had never even seen. The room was quite untidy, boxes everywhere, just a table in the center and then boxes everywhere. She moved around through some of the boxes, looking for something, probably to show James. A feeling of anxiety started growing inside him, new products always fascinated him and he always liked to be one of the first to look at them, and since she was looking deeper and deeper, most probably he'd be, the first one to see it after the store's employee's, and the girl herself. She took out from one of the boxes a big tube and emptied her pencil cup, pens and pencils falling on the table centered in the room.
The tube that she had taken, had some kind of ointment inside, and she picked up the pencil cup that she had emptied and then, exactly what he was hoping it would be, something new not even released, and he would have chances to try it first hand. She squeezed the tube against the cup and a dot of gel appeared, and she did it again in another place of the cup, and tapping her wand on the ground twice, the cup gained two wings from both dots and started floating towards the ceilings. But then came the real deal. He had to tell her what kind of pranks he could pull with that, most probably to impress the girl and then she'd present some kind of prize to him for dazzling her. A lot of ideas came to his mind but none of them seemed to be acceptable for such an important product as this. It could change all the pranks that he can pull, rubbing some ointment and having something float towards him, way easier then risking himself cast a spell. But what would annoy the teachers with that kind of thing?
"For starters, I'm pretty sure I could flip an entire room upside-down with that kind of thing, if I had the right ammount though it'd be stupid to use that type of precious ointment on a thing like this. Is it strong enough to flip someone upside-down? I'd rub it on someone's shoes just for the fun of having him float .. Oh wait no, there's a spell for that. Hmm, what about .. Ointment on a couple of animals and have 'hem float around the castle, just like the ghosts. But , better yet, I could put some of that ointment on myself and hide myself on the ceiling if I needed to make a fast get-away with my two friends after some crazy prank we'd pull. But what would you do? I'm not really seeing anything else then lifting a teacher or two, and a couple of students yelling for help while they have spiders float around them."