9.He had been so sure his parents were wonderful people that he had never had the slightest difficulty in disbelieving the aspersions Snape cast on his father's character.
10.He had been so sure his parents have been wonderful people that he had never had the slightest difficulty in disbelieving the aspersions Snape cast on his father's character.
11." It's not at all from friendship, " declared Nicholas, flaring up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. " It is not from friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation."