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Originally Posted by visceral
On Page 361 or POA Snape says, "You'd have died like your father, too arrogant to believe you might be misktaken in Black---now get out of the way, or I will make you. GET OUT OF THE WAY, POTTER!"

Why is "black' capitalized? What did James do for Snape to have said this?

I'd say that "black" is capitalized because Snape's talking about Sirius Black. At this point he believes that Sirius betrayed the Potters but James didn't want to blieve that Sirius might be a Death Eater. And he thinks that Harry is just the same.

Umm, I would have thought this was extremely obvious. "Black" refers to Sirius Black, Harry's godfather and his parents' best friend. Black is the last name of Sirius, not a color in this case.

Snape is referring to the fact that the Wizarding world believes Black to have betrayed Lily and James Potter to Voldemort and to be Voldemort's right hand man. Well, by now, we know that this isn't true. And that Snape and Pettigrew are actually main factors in the reason that the Potters are dead.

Black is capitilized because you capitalize names and Black is Sirius' last name.
At this point Snape belives that Sirius ratted out Lily and James and now wants to kill Harry. We all know that Snape hated James and so he hates Harry too he thought James was arrougant and same with Harry and so he said that Becuase he thinks Harry is wrong in Trusting Sirius.

Seems to be fairly simple here. If a word starts with a capital letter, its either starting a sentence, or the word is a name. So for 'Black' to be start with a capital, says to me its a name. So i'm going with Sirius Black being mentioned at that point.